Some people have lives - I don't. Latest scale creation:

[Oldfisti]

Have you done any German experimental/advanced aircraft such as ME 262, ME 163 Komet, Horton Flying Wing etc?

[ZLTFUL]

The best part is your shadow box. 

Once again, excellent work.

BF109 next!!!
Then start on their American counterparts!

[NeufUnSix]

I've built the Komet and the Salamander (in my past life). I don't have them anymore. They weren't really experimental, they did see service near the end of the war. I'd like to do a 262 eventually.

[Oldfisti]

The Horton Wing was the only German experimental that quickly came to mind. I always wondered how the air war would have fared if 262 production wasn't held up due to Hitler's desire to convert it to a fighter-bomber. More planes + more qualified pilots not yet dead/captured available to fly them = more hassle for the Allied Air Forces I'm sure.

[eyeboy]

i'd swap some of my 'life' for a bit of 'time' to spend on this sort of thing...

i have 4-5 unopened kits in my closet. i haven't even SEEN my airbrush in 3 years.

i'm jealous.

[TJR178]

Holy eff is that awesome!  Good job bud.

I used to make airplane models and rockets all the time in high school, but nothing to THAT caliber.

Ironically, I watched a program today of a team that raised a FW190 from the bottom of the sea off the coast of Sweden a year or two ago.  Pretty cool stuff.

I had a substitute teacher back in the day that had his B-17G shot out of the sky by one of those.  Spent some time as a POW.

[NeufUnSix]

The Horton Wing was the only German experimental that quickly came to mind. I always wondered how the air war would have fared if 262 production wasn't held up due to Hitler's desire to convert it to a fighter-bomber. More planes + more qualified pilots not yet dead/captured available to fly them = more hassle for the Allied Air Forces I'm sure.

The Luftwaffe was in shambles by the end of the war, and fuel was in very short supply. Production would have made little difference if they couldn't put it into the air in numbers.

Personally I like to avoid "what if" history, except for the odd chuckle (Germans planning on kidnapping the Duke of Windsor and forcing him to give up Britain for a puppet throne? You can't make that sort of crap up). It's part of my training as a historian. And I hate giving the Nazis too much credit, evil bastards.

[Oldfisti]

The Luftwaffe was in shambles by the end of the war, and fuel was in very short supply. Production would have made little difference if they couldn't put it into the air in numbers.

Personally I like to avoid "what if" history, except for the odd chuckle (Germans planning on kidnapping the Duke of Windsor and forcing him to give up Britain for a puppet throne? You can't make that sort of crap up). It's part of my training as a historian. And I hate giving the Nazis too much credit, evil bastards.

I'm very glad the Reich was defeated. The world would be a very scary place if it wasn't. I am however eternally fascinated by their wartime engineering efforts especially considering the internal and external obstacles. (slave labor notwithstanding)