First and foremost, this is not my original idea! The Ju 290 Zwilling was an actual design put forth by the Junkers design team as a possible continuation of the Ju 290 line to make up for a lack of good long-range aircraft. However, it was passed over for the (comparatively) less radical Ju 390.
The wings need wiring and motors (yes, that’s right), and all three sections need primer and paint, but after three months of work I don’t think it looks all that bad! Stay tuned! [;)]
Admirable - and what other difficult tasks do you indulge in - balancing ping pong balls on the end of knitting needles whilst on horseback for example?
What is:
The basis of the kit(s) , who made them.
Which company, Revell, Monogram, Tamiya, who?
The scale of the kits, are they 1/72, 1/48 or (shutter) 1/24.
Can I get one.
The name of Zwilling was, to my thinking, a total different aircraft, but that was before I found out that it meant Twin (at least I think it means twin). At any rate it looks primo.
The kits are from Revell Germany.
The scale is 1/72.
The parasite fighter is an Me 328 (an all-purpose German parasite fighter. I still need to add two pulsejets.)
And you can have one if you supply the kits, materials, etc., give me about a month, and I get paid big time!!! [:D][:D][:D][;)]
As far as I know, Zwilling was a generic term for German twins, denoted on the designation # as Z. It was made famous by the He 111Z (Twin He 111), and was commonly referred to as just “Zwilling”.
Where were they planning on basing these things? You need one ridiculously wide runway to take off/land. What were they thinking? [:o)]At least the Spruce Goose was a flying boat.
What a monster of an airplane and what a monster of a job to construct a model of it. You have my utmost admiration for even attempting such a daunting task. I certainly hope that you keep us posted with progress and completion photos. Did they plan to have one of the “babies” on each fuselage section or just on the one?
That’s awesome mike! I’ve really enjoyed watching your progress over the last couple of months and I’m looking forward to seeing the finished product (as I’m sure you are too).
What’s next on the drawing board?
Looking really good!! Looking forward to see the finished result.
I understand that you are kitbashing to represent some sort of plan they had, but can you tell us some more about this, it sounds and looks really interesting.
First off, thanks again for all the positive feedback. Here’s a little more information on what I have, and what I hope to achieve.
As for additional information, honestly, there isn’t much. There’s really only two actual pictures of this thing on the internet, one three-view scematic, and a three-quarter front view of an artist’s rendering. (It was this that gave me the idea for the single parasite aircraft, which is included in this drawing.)
To be truely accurate the two Ju 290s really should be -B bomber versions, which differed from the -A versions in several respects. Nose and tail turrets, and complete pressurization, for one. (I breifly toyed around with the idea of a conversion in a conversion, but it didn’t pan out.)
Instead I decided to leave the kits as is (A-7s) and concoct a “story” for this paticular airframe. To test the possibility (so I say) two spare Ju 290 A-7 airframes were welded together as a prototype, which was then pressed into service as the ultimate anti-shipping aircraft. I’ve got some underwing stores (Hs 293s and Bv L10s) that I’m going to add once the painting is done.
As for paint, I’d like to do a night-anti-shipping sceme of RLM 70/71 splinter with 65 “wave mirror” pattern oversprayed with a flat black underside. There’s a review of an He 111 V-1 carrier on modelingmadness.com that was the inspiration for it.
As for what’s next? I’d like to go a little smaller for my next “big” project (along with a few uninteresting 1/72 fighters) with a 1/72 XP-56 “Black Bullet”, only once again motorized, with working contra-props. I’m actively watching the few threads that are floating around now for ideas.
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