WHO NEEDS ENGINES ? THE 2017 GLIDER GROUP BUILD

WannabeFarmboy

Question: The tests of the V-1 were glider tests, and the early models glided into their targets because they ran out of fuel....

Aaaannnddd I just re-read the part about guided bomb. So, sign me up.

Welcome ...

but the V1 weapon is more correctly a missile, wasn't guided, merely pointed in a particular direction, & when they reached their pre-set distance, the engine was cut, & it was deliberately nose-dived into the ground, so they didn't glide anyway...

The manned (or woman-ed by Hanna Reitsch) prototype Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg 

could be considered a glider?

Question: The tests of the V-1 were glider tests, and the early models glided into their targets because they ran out of fuel. Would a V-1 count for this GB? I ask because I've got a 1/48 Tamiya V-1 that I bought to display beside the Hawker Tempest I'm currently working on. If I'm gonna build it anyway... Ya know?

Aaaannnddd I just re-read the part about guided bomb. So, sign me up. 

Quick update on the Grunau Baby....

A rushed gloss coat came back & bit me producing a horrible reptilian scale effect...

A few hours of sanding & repainting with a 40/60 mix of Tamiya white/silver (with a shot of Future to harden/gloss it) has brought it back.

From research with The Museum Of Army Flying, it appears that the Silver Dope/yellow stripe scheme was post-war, D'oh...

More research!

It does look like the resin will fit OK. 

I don't know if I am in yet, but,

Here are some progres picks.

Crappy kit, I will need to do a lot of filling and panel scribing.

I haven't been on here for a while.

This is the only glider I oun, so this is the perfect excuse to build it.

Count me in with a Czech Model  1/48 Blohm und Voss Bv 40 armored glider fighter.

PANZERJAGER

Gamera, the Me-321 does take up a lot of shelf space.

Here is the C-53D to go along with the CG-4A I did for this GB.   I put the build thread in Aircraft because, well, it's not a glider.  More gliders to come.  The Horsa next.

I had forgotten just how big a beastie the Gigant is.  Here is the wingspan compared to a 1/48 B-17.  Hard to believe a company actually made a 1/48 version.  All those little actuators on the control surfaces! - Admiral- you know what I'm talking about- sanding seams and ejector marks on those tiny parts !  (definately going to build all the 1/72 kits before the eyesight goes) Thankfully not to much tweezerpault with the little parts.

Are we missing a few members ?  Are we down to a trio ?

Jeaton01 nice bat!

Thanks for really interesting info, confirmation of at least one Grunau/T5 contempory serial number.

I've read Slingsby built the Grunau Baby as a T5 under license & I've seen some WW2 gliding school pics of various impressed early marks in what appears to be silver with yellow bands as well as a Gull/Petrel in the above black/yellow/camo scheme.

Confusing, but interesting! I've yet to find any start/end dates for the silver/yellow scheme, but by the time I did my Air Traing Corps gliding '77-'79, the Sedbergs & Kirby Cadet T3's were in white/red.

Sooo Silver/yellow for this bird, & b/y/c for the next one...

Pegs & pinholes to give a positive join, & a tiny lip round the front cockpit for the screen.
pre-shading a bit of a dud for me, will rethink....

Jon, here is the relevant section from Aircraft Colors and Markings, 1907-1954 by Bruce Robertson.  The rule was 3 foot wide stripes 6 feet apart applied oblique to the centerline of the fuselage.  I think oblique means 45 degrees as that is all I have ever seen pictured.  Also the bottom of a Baynes Bat I built some time ago.  I am surprised to find that Grunau Babys were used by the British military in WW II.

Wirraway

Jon that is looking good.

Fuselage closed up (after 3-part instrument panel replaced with other one on sprue...  )

Hope to see others' work soon

Nice start. Jon.  Waldoes are what I wish for, along with the electron microscope.

small weekend update:

pre-shading experiment:

9 teeny-tiny PE bits that need painting just for the seatbelt, need an electron microscope!

Wirraway, the badge looks good.

My thought was that the cables attach in line with and right behind the engine nacelles that are closest to the fuselages, just from looking at the photo.  I think there were brackets that were external to the wing skin.  There must have been so means of disconnecting the cables, perhaps the brackets had latches of some time operated by the crew.  On the cable closest in the picture I think I can see a clevis on the end of the cable.

Plastic has been cut....

with 18 plastic parts & 38 PE! I should be done in less than a year....

I've never built anything OOB, so watch this space for the twist.

behold my humble attempt at a GB badge-  The Piper TG-8

Thanks for the info John.  That presents me with a whole new set of challenges !  I have just cracked the box on the Me 321.  Forgotten how big this thing is.  But I was pretty happy with how my Me 323 diorama came out, so looking forward to it.  This Old Testors Kit is OLD (1979)  Decals are cracked, still dont know whether to coat them in microscale or look for replacements.  I think I will be diving into the fuselage and the many small windows tonight !

I seem to have an Italeri Horsa, four actually, how did I manage that?  Since spare parts will not be a challenge I will do one of those.  Also a Horten IV by Planet.

DFS 230 first please jmart then the ram ship

& now John has limbered up, what's his 'main course' going to be?

Wirraway, I read that 10 mm steel cable was used.  I found one poor photo that looked like there were two attach points on the 321, at the front of each lower longeron.  On the He-111Z there is a photo that shows the cable attach points at about the rear spar and behind the two engines in the middle section closest to the fuselages.  I think a Y-harness must have been used on both ends but don't have photographic proof of that.

Welcome aboard ! 

Count me in..  I'll be doing a space shuttle orbiter.    J/K!! 

Put me down for a 1/32 Revell ASK-21.

I'm a glider pilot, and I built a couple of these for my instructors.  Now I want one for myself :)

Here are the ships that we fly in my glider club.  Grob-103s. They are like budget ASK-21s.

No danger, Wirraway.  I have an inquiry in to the Air Force history office trying to find which C-47 towed the Fighting Falcon so I can put the C-47 in those markings.  It should be a couple of weeks at the soonest.  Got more gliders anyway.