There's something attractive about the unorthodox appearance of such birds as the BV 141. As someone who is perpetually on the lookout for unusual subject matter, I'd lock onto a kit of such a subject fairly quickly in spite of the fact that I don't do much in the way of WWII subjects.
These days I'm chasing more after civilian subjects. I remember being a kid and going to the World's Fair in 1986 when it was in Vancouver, the British pavilion had an Edgley Optica on a pedestal outside its front door, I loved the looks of it immediately but they had sold out of model kits of it
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Typical of all unorthodox designs (like the BV-141) coventional thinking put a stigma on the Optica and made it virtualy sales proof. Had it been more successful (not to mention made it into military service) I have no doubt we'd have seen some more kits of it, it was certainly worthy of being modeled.
When I read the short historical peice that accompanied the Wright Flyer article in this month's FSM, I realise the same stigma was hitting that aircraft from American minds that doubted the value of aircraft. It took success by European designers in the following years to convince them of the value of the Wright brothers' work.
In the words of Albert Einstein:
"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Lets never forget that when we see designs in anything that stray from conventional thinking.