Luft46's Blog

Yes finally finished it. After lots of backwards and forwards, including having to reglue the tank on in a better position it is now complete. Whilst I wanted to put the pistol port chains on these were just too tiny in 1.72Otherwise I am very happy with it though nearly ran out of one weathering dust colour and that caused some worries. I’ll probably have a bit of a break and clean up before resuming the railway stuff.

I got these in the mail yesterday from Poland. 5 different weapons I had ordered to go on some Luft46 planes.

All are 3D printed. The printing is better than past examples I have seen but you can still see the lines a bit so you must choose whether to sand these off. Given the size of some of these I’m sure this will be difficult. Complicating that decision is that some of them have quite amazing level of detail.

The R1000 rockets and the Hs293 derivative have extras like the arming screws and a tiny propeller on the Hs293.

The Rottkapchen is very small and after reading the instructions included I am now more inclined to use it in a armour setting maybe on top of a tank with a rail.

Other points are that a quick wash with detergent is advised as they are a bit greasy.

The R4M rocket container is a true joy. Instead of taking the easy way out and moulding it as one piece – e.g. Brengun with their Natter nose this has 4 parts…. a nose and rear cap , pylon and a main body. The pylon is keyed to the main body to get it’s position right.

The main body has the rockets and exhaust tubes moulded as one piece but each rocket front sticks out part of the way so painting each nose in white is possible. The photos do not do this justice.

I think this is as good as it will get for L46 weapons until 3D printing can be done completely smoothly. A bit of Tamiya primer does help.

Just trying this out on my tablet. A serious post to follow later.