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Hi Guardsmen22 -- I'm really looking forward to seeing your B-35 go together, it's a kit I've wanted majorly for many years. Several years ago I got her (sadly unstable) jet stablemate, the B-49, on special from Squadron, including a book on Jack Northrop's flying wings, and when I have the display space for so large a model I'll put her together.

I've finally got a start on my Go 229. My, the parts are very petite! The interior gray translates out on the charts from the Revell paint codes as Humbrol 106, Matt Ocean Grey, but I do believe that's an RAF color... Does anyone know, was there a dark German gray used for interiors toward the end of the war? My impulse is to slap RLM 02 on all of these parts, but maybe I'd be wrong...

Cheers,

Mike/TB379

guardsmen22 wrote:

I bought it brand new for $35, at a model swap meet, and yeah it would have been expensive everywhere else. So far just testfiting it, there haven't been any major gaps, and any problems can be fixed with a little sanding(Thank GOD!) but so far its been a great kit, well worth the money. Oh and warhammer, you still have to try to hit it with the X-4s to put holes in it(the XB-35 was a lot more manueverable than a B-17) and to improve accuracy you would to have got closer and then all twenty of the .50s would say hello.()

Well that is good to hear. Hope it turns out nice.

If all the interceptors can't shoot down your huge, high-flying, wing thingy, then I will just launce some Wasserfals at it. That should work. Nothing like a giant telephone pole flying at you going over Mach 1, plus it is packed with high-explosives.

Do remember, I have a very powerful rocket motor in the back of this one, and the 2 20mm and 2 30mm should be enough to produce some serious holes, so...  I could be just as fast as you with the rocket running, if not faster.  Remember this is a carrier plane, so certain systems would have been strengthened over the original land based plane; hence, greater durability.  My flitzer would have operated in the atlantic, so unless you have ultra long range escort fighters for the entire trip to berlin and back, you could be in trouble.

-Red

I bought it brand new for $35, at a model swap meet, and yeah it would have been expensive everywhere else.

So far just testfiting it, there haven't been any major gaps, and any problems can be fixed with a little sanding(Thank GOD!) but so far its been a great kit, well worth the money.

Oh and warhammer, you still have to try to hit it with the X-4s to put holes in it(the XB-35 was a lot more manueverable than a B-17) and to improve accuracy you would to have got closer and then all twenty of the .50s would say hello.()

Hey Guardsmen, Reds Flitzer might not be able to reach 40,000ft without getting shot down, but my proposed Me-262 Zerstörer could launch four X-4s out of .50 cal range and put some large holes in it, if it could climb the extra 2,000ft above its service ceiling. 

That is cool you got the XB-35. I hope you got a good deal on it because Italeri just re-released that same kit and it is like $75.00. A little too expensive for me right now. I have also heard it has giant gaps and some fit problems but builds up pretty nice. Should be interesting and I can't wait to see it built.

Hey red just remember the XB-35 was faster than a FW190  and could fly at 40,000ft.  Oh and don't forget the 20x Browning .50 caliber machine guns(hehe).

This plane is huge though, 1/72 scale still puts the wing span of this beast at over two feet long.

PS its not going to be shiny, no, its going to have the original (planned) WW2 bomber colors.

Oh, that one!  That is an awesome plane!  I couldn't match the name with the image...D'oh!

Cool.  A large, shiny target for my flitzer! Muahahaha! Just kidding!

Good luck!

-Red

Actually changed my mind on the Shinden, intead I went with the AMT 1/72 Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing.  I got it at the Buena Park Kit Collectors Show Today.

Oh and red this is the Shinden (for future reference)

Oh dear....

Now, which one was the shinden?  I'm not an IJN/IJA nut, so this is strange to me....What do you plan to do with it?

-Red

bump.

-Red

Thanks, IL2; yeah blue for high-alt air superiority.  A carrier based fighter lo-vis scheme, basically.Glad you like it!

Keep up the good work!

-Red

Those Dorniers are both looking really sweet.

Red, your Flitzer is nicely done!  I dig your paint scheme.  Blue paint for hi-alt?  Also - you're weathering certainly gives it that rough look that German planes had late in the war!  Good work!

Smitty's making hella progress too. 

Believe it or not, I've been working on my 51H from time to time.  I've started painting the prop, and I'm working blemishes out of the parent resin parts.  Not much to look at right now, but she's coming along nicely just the same.

Some pics of the Do-335B-4:

It is coming along pretty well. The wings are really long! This thing would have grabbed a ton of air. I am going to close the front engine in but leave the one side panel off of the rear engine compartment to so off some of the kits details and possibly make a little dio with a kubelwagen and some groundcrew later.

bump.

-Red

Good luck!

Thanks, guardsmen.  That means a lot to me.

Have a good night, guys.

-Red

Great job Red! I like how dirty it looks!

The Flitzer is Finished!

Enjoy!

-Red

Most everything is installed or prepped for installation, waiting for the Future dipped canopy to fully cure before installing it and painting.  Speaking of, the mottle camo scheme for this bird is nice, so I copied the marking and painting sheet from the instructions, the side views are exactly the same size as the finished model, so after some tedious cutting I have a template of sorts to use with the airbrush.  Hopefully will have some pics up this weekend.

Here are the progress so far.  Seat belts were added from thin foil, painted and the interior given a dark brown wash mostly for seat details.

Or a kriegsmarine land based propper....

My flitzer is almost done!  Painted in Sky blue Kriegsmarine air superiority scheme.  This plane was based with the 2nd SeeFlieger Gedeschwader on the carrier Graf Zepplin.  Flown by Fiegerleutnant zur See Abel Krieger.   PIctures expected by late tonight...

-Red 

Cool camo.

I'm hopeing to start my bouild some time in November. 

Okay here's the camo, its mostly done, just some minor touch-ups then i can dull coat it.  After that comes decals and weathering.

Well I probably will build a Tamiya version later but anyhow,

  After about 6 long hours hunched over my bench filling in the cracks with squadron putty and then sanding it down with 400 grit, which works so nicely on models, you don't have to worry about sanding too much off and when you get down to the level you want the paper will polish the putty if you don't press too hard(so I suggest using it for high detail jobs) unfortunatley I forgot to take a picture of the finished job and I already have the first coat of paint on.  Heres the pre-(6 hour)sanding pics:

hope to have some pics of the camo soon. 

Well my Dragon 1/72 Do-335B-4 is coming along well. It is amazing how much detail they can put into the two little Diamler-Benz DB603 engines. Was just waiting to recieve some RLM Gray paint as it turns out is uses a lot of it in this model. Hopefully I will be able to post some pics up soon.

guardsmen22, your Do-335 seems to be coming along pretty well. Maybe you should build a Tamiya or Dragon Do-335 to keep your sanity.

BigSmitty, also good work. Can the wings swing on that Me 1101 like the real one could?

P.S.- I have already decided upon the kit and conversion set for my Me-262 Zerstörer hybrid. I would really like to but two X-4s under each wing but I am having trouble finding 1/48 X-4s. I hate to buy the Tamiya Ta-183 and take the missiles out of there it being so expensive. Anybody know of a place to get any?

Red13Bar wrote:

I've heard of that site.  An excellent resource, isn't it? -Red

Ye, it is a good site. I hadn't visited it in ages but it came up when i typed in X-4. I have a few German paper projects i would like to build so i think i will be going back often.