Just finished this guy. Hope you like it
Nice job, and I like the tower. I built this kits a couple of years back and really liked it.
Thanks Bish. I love this plane and I think I paid too much money for this kit [:$] . I would love to get my hand on the 1/48 version for a reasonable price.
I can’t remember what I paid for mine, but I think I got it just after Huma went out of business and Hannants still had them as the normal price. last year I did end up paying through the nose for the DFS 230 kit. I know there kits are not super detailed, but they are still nice and I like the subjects they did, just a pity others have not taken them up. I spruced mine up a bit with some PE designed for Me 262 and He 162 kits. How did you find the outriggers for the outer wheels. I had to replace mine with some metal rod.
I think you nailed it. These kits are rare because no one makes them any more and also they are of special subjects.
The plastic for outer wheels is flimpsy but it seems to hold the aircraft with no issue. I just have to remember to be gentle with it whenever i put it down.
It’s great to see another completed Huma Triebflugel! It was the first “Napkinwaffe 1946” model I built, as well as being my first limited run kit. I saw an illustration of it in a book when I was in grade school, and I think it was instrumental in seeding my interest in the genre. But I had to wait until I was in college for Huma’s kit to appear! I am very surprised that Revell Germany or one of the Chinese companies like Meng haven’t made a new plastic kit of it. I’d get one in a heartbeat! As you know, the Huma Triebflugel isn’t the easiest kit to do well, as the panel lines are soft and wobbly, the canopy is toenail-thick, and the decals resemble frosted Scotch Tape.
I see you have quite a collection of Luft 1946 kits - keep us posted on your future builds!
What an amazingly unique build, great job on top of that!
Toshi
Great job, cnq! Do the wings/blades/propellers rotate?
Devil, yes, that whole centre piece would have rotated. The motors on the end were Ram jets, so it would have nedd a second engine to get of the ground and to land. How the pilt would have landed that thing is beyond me.
Like Bish said the centre piece can be rotated if you want to build it that way like the real plane but I glued mine up.
Real G. I love Luft 46 subjects and have built few kits since I started modelling 3 years ago. Below is a picture of some planes in my collection ( except the Dornier everything else is built from kits. The Dornier is made by IXO ).
Wow, what an awesome kit. Love the dio and the bird. I’ll have to see if I can’t find one for my stash. Nice work.
BK
Looks really good !
Especially like the access tower. [:D][Y]
Are most of the kits in your collection Huma models?
Ouch ! I didn’t know Huma was out of business. [:(]
I should have purchased the Huma Ju-287 when it was first issued.
Procrastination bit me again, just like it did for the LS firearm models.[:'(]
Ye, they have been out of buisness a few years now. I kept putting off getting the DFS 230, damn wish i hadn’t. Hannants still have some of those Ju 287 kits, i must grab one of those soon myself. You might still be able to find some over there.
cnq, if your interested in doing a GB, I will be running a 1946 What If GB starting in Jan. I’ll be building that Revell Ar 555 myself. Would love to see one of your builds in progress if you fancy jumping on board.
Guess I’ll be checking Hannants.
Ouch…39.99 pounds / $60 USD…and I certainly won’t stop at ordering just one model from Hannants…[;)]…guess that’s what I get for procrastination.[^o)]
Thanks for the info.[:D]
Looks like my credit card will be ordering both the Huma kit and an HDMI KVM switch…from different places, of course.
Glad to be of assistance. No, it ain’t cheap is it. But better than the cost of the resin one. Just be sure to save me one.
I paid $72 I think for the Huma Ju-287 wheni it first came out. The owner of my LHS made a funny face and asked if I was really sure that I wanted it. I had a couple of Huma kits finished by then so I knew what I was getting into. At least the Ju-287 was one of their better kits. It needs a lot of nose weight and the landing gear is terribly wobbly though. The RATO pods are rubbish, so I used some DML ones pinched from two Ar-234 kits.
i was hoping Huma would have done a Ju-252 or Ar232 “Millipede”. The Mach Poo Ar-232 kit is terrible!
If there is a 1946 GB next year, I might join in to finish one or two to thin the stash!
Thanks for the re-assurance about the kit.
I did not remember seeing the kit in hobby shops, though the Triebflugel was in shops at the time.
I delayed buying the Huma kit because it was ( at the time ) yet another Luftwaffe aircraft model lacking any published documentation; no internet, no books, not even a Wings or Air Classics article.
My interest in the kit only revived after purchasing a book on the Ju-287 ( ISBN 978-1-903223-92-5 ) by IanAllen Publishing.