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My Fascination with Luft '46...

#1 Post by kevtk135 »

... goes on.
This time it's Anigrand's Lipisch 13B

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Just a few parts, should be easy (famous last words).

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Before I closed it up I noticed - no engines. So I darkened where the engines should be so you can't easily look in.

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So far so good. I noticed that the paint diagram is the same size as the model, so I just cut the diagram apart. Here I'm just filling in areas that will be the darker color.

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I used the masks over the darker color and sprayed the lighter. I used lightened RLM 81 and darkened RLM82 (or vica versa - I forget now). :oops:

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Painted with RLM 76. Adding the skid was the hardest part. There's a groove, but the skid doesn't lock in. The skid is also at an angle that's hard to get while getting the skid to lie flat while glue is drying. In the end the skid slid a little sideways. :roll: At that point I just left it...

Next part coming up. Thanks for looking.
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#2 Post by Warped Speed »

No engines? How you gonna bomb London? :shock:

Nice job so far!

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Warped Speed wrote:No engines? How you gonna bomb London? :shock:

Nice job so far!

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Haha, considering it never got off the drawing board, London is safe. ;)
Thanks. The toughest part was that dang landing skid - - oh and the one decal that exploded when I put the Micro Sol on it... :?
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kevtk135 wrote:
Warped Speed wrote:No engines? How you gonna bomb London? :shock:

Nice job so far!

Carl-
...oh and the one decal that exploded when I put the Micro Sol on it... :?
Don't you just love when that happens? That's why God created a spares box!

I suppose being so desperate the Germans could have just thrown the drawing board at London?

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By design the engines were inside the fuselage and the thrust was out through that squared off cutout in the tail edge.
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drhall762 wrote:By design the engines were inside the fuselage and the thrust was out through that squared off cutout in the tail edge.
Yes, that correct. :)
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Pretty cool - that is an odd design. Makes it interesting though!
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Wasn't this supposed to have some kind of coal dust burning jet engine? Goofy as heck.

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Rocketeer wrote:Wasn't this supposed to have some kind of coal dust burning jet engine? Goofy as heck.
I hadn't heard that and had to look, but yes, supposedly coal or paraffin coated lignite dust was to be used.
I guess when you're desperate, you'll try anything.

Continuing, all I basically did was fix up some of the camo lines, gloss it, and then add decals. Usually I never have a problem with Anigrand decals, and they all went on smoothly after a VERY long time in the water. The accident happened with one of the crosses (on top of course) when it exploded as I put the Micro Sol on it. Dang it. #-o

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You can see the exploded decal here. I sorta fixed it with paint...

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All that's left is the cockpit and canopy. Thanks for looking.
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Rocketeer wrote:Wasn't this supposed to have some kind of coal dust burning jet engine? Goofy as heck.
Actually it was intended to burn a liquid synthetic fuel produced by high pressure coal hydrogenation. The process was expensive, extremely hazardous to the slave labor and ultimately insufficient to meet the fuel needs of the Nazi military machine. Couple that with Allied bombing of the fuel plants and there is virtually no fuel to run on. Not unheard of for Nazi tank units to simply run out of fuel and stop. That whole powdered coal idea was little more than a pipe dream that Lippisch was fixated on with little or no scientific merit.
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