1/48 Ju-287

philo426

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March 2005

1/48 Ju-287

Posted by philo426 on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:52 PM

Here is a pic of my 1/48 scale Ju-287.This plane actually flew and was even captured on uSAAF gun camera footage!

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philo426

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March 2005

Posted by philo426 on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:53 PM

and another view

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mucker

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July 2004
From: Northern KY

Posted by mucker on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:55 PM

What a neat plane, Philo. Thank you for sharing.

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philo426

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March 2005

Posted by philo426 on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:57 PM

Thanks Mucker!The fuselage is a Combat models Vac-form.The Engines are from an Arado AR-234 and the wings are carved out 2 laminated sheets of -80 styrene.

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mucker

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July 2004
From: Northern KY

Posted by mucker on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:09 PM

philo426 wrote:
Thanks Mucker!The fuselage is a Combat models Vac-form.The Engines are from an Arado AR-234 and the wings are carved out 2 laminated sheets of -80 styrene.

Wow! Vac form AND scratch building?!?!? I'm scared to death of both of them!

Even more impressive!

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philo426

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March 2005

Posted by philo426 on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:30 PM

This project was a serious bear!I had to carve the masters for the wheel spats and fuselage landing-gear fairings and had to cast the fuselage engines in resin so that it would not be a tail-sitter!I was forced to fill the rato rockets with bird shot to finally make it sit correctly despite the fact I put two .50 caliber muzzle-loading bullets in the fuselage over the nose.Needless to say I had to uise brass tubing for the landing gear!

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yeti0010

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August 2006
From: Wayzata, MN

Posted by yeti0010 on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:31 PM

very nice that plane has always interested me, I just wish a mainstream company would make a 1/48 kit.

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philo426

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March 2005

Posted by philo426 on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:34 PM

I agree Yeti!To my knowledge the only commerical kits were 1/72 offerings by Planet and Huma of Germany.

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yardbird78

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January 2003
From: 40 klicks east of the Gateway

Posted by yardbird78 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 2:58 PM

Beautiful work on an extremely unusual plane. Your modeling skills are very apparent.

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wing_nut

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April 2005
From: Piscataway, NJ!

Posted by wing_nut on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 3:53 PM

Nowthere is a subject you don't see every day (read that... never see...) I wouldlike to see that gun camera film... see if the shooter has the deflection shot pointing at the wrong end.

Nice job on the build.

Marc

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philo426

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March 2005

Posted by philo426 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:10 PM

Here is the pic from one of my reference mateirals

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philo426

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Posted by philo426 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:12 PM

Caption from the book:

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philo426

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Posted by philo426 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:14 PM

And a cover of the front of the book:

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Lucien Harpress

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June 2003
From: A Computer in Adrian, (SE) Michigan.

Posted by Lucien Harpress on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:33 PM

I've always been tempted to try and build one of these the same way the Germans did- He 177 fuselage, Ju 188 (I think) tail, engines from an Ar 234/Me 262, and landing gear from, get this, captured B-24 wreckage!!!

A true junkyard bird if there ever was one.....

FYI, this was (obviously) just a testbed. Work was begun on the actual production airframe, but was halted by the end of the War. THEN, the airframe was captured by the Russians, COMPLETED, and then flown, with a German aircrew! I find stuff like this just facinating.

Here's the only photo I know of that exists of this second Ju 287 (from Luftarchv.de):

http://luftarchiv.de/flugzeuge/junkers/ju_287_s.jpg

It's the dark one in the front- you can sorta tell the canopy is different.

Really nice work- some parts are a bit rough from a regular kit standpoint, but still much better than I could do at this point. Nice job!

That which does not kill you makes you stranger...

-The Joker

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philo426

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March 2005

Posted by philo426 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:27 PM

Yeah I agree that some parts are rough but I am pretty confident that I am the only one who has a 1/48 scale Ju-287!If I had un-limited funds(I wish!)I would take the recent 1/48 He-177(Like the one Swanny built not too long ago)and use that to construct another one.Then I would get a Dragon Ju-188 for the tail and rear horizontal stabilizers(To my Knowledge no one makes a 1/48 scale JU-388 but the parts are similar)and use the front canopy from the Ju-188 as well as the paired engines from an Ar-234 C to construct the proposed final version of the JU-287.

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phoenix7187

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June 2004
From: Akron ohio

Posted by phoenix7187 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 10:47 PM

actually they built several of them here is a pic I had lying around. it's not the only flight tested forward sweep wing design they flew. That's a pretty good example you got there. vac kits are very difficult to build and make look right. you did a great job.