Luftwaffe Dinah

Modeling Subjects Aircraft
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Here are some pictures of the German version of the Japanese Dinah.
The plane was built from the Airfix Dinah kit.
The stock engines were replaced with BMW engines from an old Italeri Ju 188 kit. This airplane is painted and marked as a fast recon aircraft, which is the role the Luftwaffe had planned to use it for.

Matrixone

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Nice!

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They Luftwaffe actually wanted to use the Dinah???

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Thanks claymore68 and woodbeck!

For a while the Germans were interested in producing the Dinah for the Luftwaffe, the license to copy the Dinah was not granted by the Japanese until it was too late to be of any real value to the Germans because of the jet engine being developed and the Me 262 airframe.
Fieseler did have Dinah blueprints and was constructing a prototype that was destroyed in an air raid. The engines that were planned to be used were the same BMW engines that was used on Fw 190 A aircraft.
There was a good article on this subject a couple years ago in one of those East European model magazines.

Matrixone

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looks good what scale?

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Thanks ghettochild!

The Dinah is 1/72 scale.

Matrixone

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Wow what a cool piece of history I didnt know. Thanks for the info.

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woodbeck3,

So far little information on the German Dinah has been found, I sure would like to see a photograph of that first prototype under construction. The sleek lightweight airframe mated with the very powerful BMW engines would have been a very fast airplane for its time.

Matrixone

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looks good matrixone. nicely done.

joe

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Good to see you’re giving that nice Dinah of yours a little exposure. I like the way you did that last pic[8D].

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Great looking model.

I never knew that the Luftwaffe had been looking to use the Dinah.

The pictures look excellent too.

Karl

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matrixone,

You keep adding thos great builds to the dio and you will have to enlarge the base to the point where you won’t have room for any furniture. The room will be total diorama. Great work and the photography is super. Also, thanks for the history lesson. Keep them coming.

Richard

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I like the look of the planes on that diorama. An in teresting history too. Thanks for sharing.

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Matrixone,nice pics as allways, I knew that was a very good help from the germans to the japaneses,because the me-262 and the komet has japanese versions.but the reverse situation ,i did´n´t knew.thanks.
A good site of japanese ww2 aircraft photos is http://www.ijnafpics.com/

Regards,
Pedro( my airfield control tower on the Lancaster is the same that you have in your airfield airfield. LOL

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joe, Filibert, Karl, Richard, pingtang, and Pedro, thanks for the kind words!

That Airfix Dinah kit is very basic but not that bad, I had planned to build the kit OOB but shortly after I started construction I found one of the propellers was deformed from not being molded properly. I did not have any spare propellers to replace it with so I was about to throw the kit away when I remembered I had some BMW engines left over from an old Italeri Ju 188 kit so I thought I had nothing to lose and attempted to make the German Dinah.
Pedro, your Airfix control tower looks much more at home next to your Lanc than mine does on my Luftwaffe airbase!

Matrixone

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Matrixone,don´t worry about that ,I think the tower with the good camo work that you made,no one will tell.it´s super ok.

Pedro

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Pedro,

That Airfix control tower is not too bad, but it would be great to have Revell of Germany or maybe even Hasegawa produce some small scale airfield buildings like control towers or small hangers. I think they would sell.

Matrixone

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very nice work matrixone,I also really like your diorama. lets see more of your work. appreciate the history lesson also. semper fi, mike

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The collaboration between Germany and Japan regards to aircraft is an interesting piece of WW2 history (Notwithstanding the fact that the nazis were ardent racists!!!)
I didn’t know that the Germans made Japanese planes…

Here is a piccy of the Japanese Me 163 Komet, made under licence:

The Mitsubishi Shusui:

Apparently only one flight of the Shusui was made, and it crashed, killing the test pilot.

And the Me 262, also made under licence:
The Nakajima Kikka:

I have seen kits for both of these planes…

Edit…oh pooh. Those links aren’t working. Here they are:
Shusui:
http://www.ijnafpics.com/B&W/akigusa1.jpg
Info:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/j8m.html

Kikka
http://www.ijnafpics.com/B&W/Kikka__1.jpg
Info:
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/kikka.html#RTFToC2

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I like it a lot!
The Dinah is super sleek ,like a fish.
As for the 262 and Kikka I read somewhere that although
they looked the same they were unrelated.
I was quite skeptical about that little bit of info when I read it myself.