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Heinkel Wespe

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  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Heinkel Wespe
Posted by Real G on Friday, June 19, 2020 12:13 PM

This was posted over in the recent acquisitions thread, but to avoid spamming it with 1946 Luftwaffery, I'll start an independent thread.  Anyway, here's the pics of what you get:

And here are my two attempts to scratchbuild one.

The small one was a mistake in scaling - I took the published overall length to the castering wheels, but it was actually supposed to be to the end of the fuselage!  Waaah.  So I immediately started a correctly scale one, but got only as far as you see here.  The fire in me had died, and it got consigned to the Shelf of Doom.

And after emerging from its Purple Power bath, here is the A.B.&K kit with its predecessors.

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

  • Member since
    September 2006
  • From: Bethlehem PA
Posted by the Baron on Friday, June 19, 2020 12:23 PM

Did you scratchbuild yours before or after the kit was available?  I ask, just to see if you ran into that modeling curse, that as soon as you scratchbuild a subject that hasn't been kitted anywhere, someone will bring out a kit Wink

Seriously, those are some excellent scratches!

The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

 

 

  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Friday, June 19, 2020 12:45 PM

Thanks Baron!

They were done in the 1990s, using the Unicraft kit’s box art as reference.  So no tears were shed when A.B.&K’s kit came out.

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

  • Member since
    June 2014
Posted by BrandonK on Sunday, June 21, 2020 11:04 AM

That's amazing stuff there. Very cool. I'm jelly.

BK

On the bench:

A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!

2024 Kits on deck / in process / completed   

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  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 1:13 PM

I'll see if if I can get it on the workbench queue.  I can't build mini Star Wars kits forever!  Stick out tongue

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

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