Airfix 1:72 scale Blohm Voss BV-141

[Lucky13]

Looks fantastic mate!

 

[Airframes]

Very nice work indeed. And you should be pleased - I would be happy with that result in 1/48th or even 1/32nd scale, never mind 1/72nd scale, on such an old kit!
You've done a great job moulding the transparencies, and fitting them, and the engine detail is really well done. Congratulations, and looking forward to seeing the end result.

 

[Bustedwing]

Some final pictures' I went easy on the weathering because lets face it, I doubt a lot of these racked up any serious hours.

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Airframes]

Beauty !

 

[Wurger]

 

[meatloaf109]

Neat looking aircraft, good job!

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work so far!

 

[Matt308]

That's great...

 

[vikingBerserker]

Well done!

 

[Crimea_River]

Very nicely done. A great addition to any collection.

 

[A4K]

With all - great work mate!

 

[Bustedwing]

Thanks for all the positive comments and encouragement. Considering what a meager kit it was I had a lot of fun building it until I got down to trying to learn how to vacu form my own glazing. Ran into numerous problems with fitting it to the fuselage. I have given up on modeling putty in favour of fibreglass filler ( bondo) which I used on this. Lost track of how many canopies I made but after 5 disastrous attempts to fasted the canopy to the fuselage I almost gave up. Tried all kinds of glue as well with no luck and ended up using crazy glue which I don't like using. I'm pretty happy with it.

 

[Tony Hill]

Well worth the effort, great job!


One can only guess at the offset in the thrust line required to kepp the damned thing flying straight!!

 

[T Bolt]

Very nice

 

[Lucky13]

Looks just awesome mate!

 

[Jayl]

Turned out really good.

 

[ccheese]

Just went thru this whole thread, BW. You did an outstanding job on this plane. I'm impressed with the clear plastic work you did. Well done, Mate.

Charles

 

[dirkpitt289]

I haven't seen this build since it was back on page 4. What progress. It looks fantastic

 

[Bustedwing]

Thanks all for the good feedback. I'm pretty pleased with it as well. I would say though, for a first attempt at forming my own canopies I should have picked something a bit less challenging. I sure wasted a lot of plastic !!!!