I am always fascinating about the German “what if” subjects and this jet is my most favorite one. I am glad Minart make it in big 1/35 scale for reasonable price. I am thinking about getting another kit for different paint scheme.
Since the kit did not come with boarding ladder, I scratch-built one from mini bamboo sticks from dollar store.
I also added couple figures from my spare box. I did not glue the gun panels, so all 4 canons can be seen with the panels off.
Hope you like it
Oho!
I thought some of our Vertical Take-Off and Landing efforts were weird. Can you imagine being in the office and trying to land that thing? By the way, Beautiful Work on her!
My favorite Luft 1946 design as well. Focke-Wulf actually went as far as testing a wind tunnel model of this contraption. But I cannot see how a pilot would have been able to back one of these down into a forest clearing while allied jabos swarmed about.
Several tail sitter designs attempted to address this serious problem. Convair’s “Pogo” had a seat that tilted forward a bit when landing, to give the pilot a better view. SNECMA’s C.450 Coleoptere took it a bit further and had the pilot sitting upright and looking through a floor mounted window while landing. Neither worked well.
I wonder why Miniart chose 1:35 scale? Easier to get ground vehicles and figures for a diorama, but harder to source a seated pilot. I tried fitting a 1:32 pilot and Heinkel ejector seat, but they were too big.
Thanks friends.
I agree with you Real G regarding the chosen scale to be compatible with ground vehicles and figures. I took a quick look in ebay and found few 1/35 sitting pilots available, so I think we can still get the pilot in this scale, and maybe a little bit of tweaking/trimming will make it fit in the cockpit.