Luft46's Blog

This is the AV Me 334 a rather average kit that needed a new canopy and with a bit of work a 262 canopy will fit though the first one fitted was a bust with the canopy fogging despite being futured. This kit is potentially doable but its not at the top of the heap.

Marder VI – this was an attempt to make a Marder like SPG based on the Dragon Maus kit fused with a number of other kits. The muse has well and truly left the building for this one and I will be passing it on to someone else shortly.

Heinkel P 1073 – Planet. Now I have decided that I will need to do this kit wheels up it looks doable. I could not find any suitable white metal u/c legs so this decision has been forced on me. It is back in the cupboard to follow up after the ready to paint kits are done.

Arado E580. Designed as a He 162 competitor from Planet suffers from a very average canopy that does not fit being overlarge. The canopy needs rcasting and new metal u/c and is off to the knackers yard. I have started on a master for a new canopy in Milliput but it needs more work before casting.

FW 190 F8/R-14 from Revell. This is a job for someone else that started out as a project with one of my sons that was never finished. It will need a paint cleanup but really nothing much to stop me finishing this kit at all. And a new propellor but I have a few of the Hase 190’s that I use for spares that can supply this. It will be in the next wave of projects. The model is on the first issue of Military in Scale that had this plane as a conversion in it. Sadly this magazine folded late last year.

Sanka Mark B from Bandai alledgedly in 1/72. This is a kit of a plane that bears some resemblance to the Shinden but was featured in an Anime film. Quite an unusual film, a very dark contemplation of a commercial war focusing on the pilots sense of futility, not easy to watch but good. This comes with two kits to the box, one will be enough with it paint ready now.