Silly quick model completed

Rocketeer
Fri, 24 Dec 2021 02:02:26 +0000
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At IPMS a couple months ago, a friend showed off a completed model of a Triebflugel which took my fancy. The Triebflugel is a suicidally stupid proposed design for a VTOL interceptor using ramjets to spin a three-winged rotor around the middle of the fuselage. It’s hard to imagine anybody being serious about such a nutzo idea, but since model builders are crazy about German WWII stuff, the wilder the better, there are actually three different kits available of the Triebflugel, while there’s still no decent kit of the gorgeous 1936 Auburn Speedster. The world is unjust.

So, anyway, I was looking at his model and I thought, “Y’know, if you slid the cockpit aft to the base of the vertical fin, that’d have a nice GeeBee-ish sort of look.”

So I ordered the Amusing Hobby Triebflugel kit (smaller scale than his, because $$$) off the Internets, and went to work. I moved the cockpit aft, and just because it’s such a goofball concept, I added a BFG under the nose. By keeping my obsessive-compulsive nature under control, I was able to bang this one out in maybe 2 1/2 weeks. The backstory is that it’s a point defense interceptor for the island base of a famous group of international air aces. Since it’s a comic book airplane, I gave it a bright comic-book paint job.

Anyway, enough backstory, on to the pics. A big Marvel No-Prize to the person who identifies the organization first.

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