Wintertime Hobbies

[Speaker to Animals]

How'd you like to be the bombardier/navigator on that bird?
"Sure you'll be laying prone, protected by glass, but your bed also serves as a floatation device."

Seriously. Typical mid-30's German engineering weirdness. But the plane looks cool.

I built one of these ugly beasts (ME 110 night fighter) when I was a kid. It was a real bitch getting all the antennas straight, but I did (accidentally) discover how to fog the canopy.

Is that an old radar screen mounted on the nose?

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How'd you like to be the bombardier/navigator on that bird?
"Sure you'll be laying prone, protected by glass, but your bed also serves as a floatation device."

Seriously. Typical mid-30's German engineering weirdness. But the plane looks cool.

I built one of these ugly beasts (ME 110 night fighter) when I was a kid. It was a real bitch getting all the antennas straight, but I did (accidentally) discover how to fog the canopy.

That is serious 'glutton for punishment' territory. The Me110 did not live up to expectations, but still is an interesting aircraft.

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Seriously. Typical mid-30's German engineering weirdness. But the plane looks cool.

I built one of these ugly beasts (ME 110 night fighter) when I was a kid. It was a real bitch getting all the antennas straight, but I did (accidentally) discover how to fog the canopy.

Is that an old radar screen mounted on the nose?

Presumably converted to a nightfighter role. They did the same thing with the Ju88.

[Alexander PhiAlipson]

Seriously. Typical mid-30's German engineering weirdness. But the plane looks cool.

I built one of these ugly beasts (ME 110 night fighter) when I was a kid. It was a real bitch getting all the antennas straight, but I did (accidentally) discover how to fog the canopy.

Is that an old radar screen mounted on the nose?

Yeah. The 110's really didn't live up to their expectations as long range escorts, but they made excellent night fighters. You can't see it in that picture, but they had 20mm cannons installed in the rear of the cockpit which fired UP into the undefended British bombers' bellies. They'd be cruising along in formation closing on their targets, when all of a sudden--"There goes Tommy!" The Brits thought flak was dropping them.

Those fucking German engineers would never admit that they had made a bad design, so they just found ways to make something useful out of the crap they'd already produced--like deo's excellent little PZ II. That tank was nearly useless even at the beginning of the war, so they turned them into Flammpanzers and self-propelled infantry guns; late in the war it became the lynx--a fully tracked recon vehicle. Fucking Germans--gotta love 'em.

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Having some fit & finish issues with this model. Will need to do some more putty work after all the major panels are in place...

I love the shape of this airplane, especially the tail surfaces and the wings. It's so 1930's.

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Here's something kind of fun. It's an old cast iron doorstop or mantel piece shaped like a London mail coach. It has a small red light bulb that mounts on the inside. I'm having it media blasted to remove all the old paint, and then I'll repaint it and put some sort of lamp shade material in the windows.











Possible painting scheme...

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Media blasted to bare cast iron



First primer coat

[Okeefenokee]

cool