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My Fascination with Luft '46...
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My Fascination with Luft '46...
... goes on.
This time it's Anigrand's Lipisch 13B
Just a few parts, should be easy (famous last words).
Before I closed it up I noticed - no engines. So I darkened where the engines should be so you can't easily look in.
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.
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).
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. At that point I just left it...
Next part coming up. Thanks for looking.
This time it's Anigrand's Lipisch 13B
Just a few parts, should be easy (famous last words).
Before I closed it up I noticed - no engines. So I darkened where the engines should be so you can't easily look in.
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.
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).
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. At that point I just left it...
Next part coming up. Thanks for looking.
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Re: My Fascination with Luft '46...
No engines? How you gonna bomb London?
Nice job so far!
Carl-
Nice job so far!
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Re: My Fascination with Luft '46...
Haha, considering it never got off the drawing board, London is safe.Warped Speed wrote:No engines? How you gonna bomb London?
Nice job so far!
Carl-
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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Re: My Fascination with Luft '46...
Don't you just love when that happens? That's why God created a spares box!kevtk135 wrote:...oh and the one decal that exploded when I put the Micro Sol on it...Warped Speed wrote:No engines? How you gonna bomb London?
Nice job so far!
Carl-
I suppose being so desperate the Germans could have just thrown the drawing board at London?
Re: My Fascination with Luft '46...
By design the engines were inside the fuselage and the thrust was out through that squared off cutout in the tail edge.
Dave
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Gotta' be somewhere. Might just as well be here.
Paint gets under your fingernails.
Watch the glue!
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Re: My Fascination with Luft '46...
Yes, that correct.drhall762 wrote: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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Re: My Fascination with Luft '46...
Pretty cool - that is an odd design. Makes it interesting though!
Steve Cooke
Re: My Fascination with Luft '46...
Wasn't this supposed to have some kind of coal dust burning jet engine? Goofy as heck.
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Re: My Fascination with Luft '46...
I hadn't heard that and had to look, but yes, supposedly coal or paraffin coated lignite dust was to be used.Rocketeer wrote:Wasn't this supposed to have some kind of coal dust burning jet engine? Goofy as heck.
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.
You can see the exploded decal here. I sorta fixed it with paint...
All that's left is the cockpit and canopy. Thanks for looking.
Re: My Fascination with Luft '46...
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.Rocketeer wrote:Wasn't this supposed to have some kind of coal dust burning jet engine? Goofy as heck.
Dave
Gotta' be somewhere. Might just as well be here.
Paint gets under your fingernails.
Watch the glue!
Gotta' be somewhere. Might just as well be here.
Paint gets under your fingernails.
Watch the glue!