Messerhsmitt Me - 163 Komet

Flakvierling #2 / Guns & Details /

After few weeks full of trips, many interesting objects seen (and photographed), with couple hobby related events I finally got back to modeling Flakvierling. Research I've done for this build shows many variations between certain components of this gun, that is why I picked the most relevant reference, and  according to it, I tried my skill and made some improvements where was it possible.

ModelKraft 2013

KM Leopard 1

Shropshire Modellers' Show

Yorkshire Air Forces Museum

Yorkshire Air  Forces Museum used to be a base for 77 RAF Bomber squadron up to 1944, from then on (after suffering heavy aircraft losses), 77th moved to newly opened airfield (Sutton station),  and Elvington airfield became a base for French Squadrons operating within No. 4  Group - 346 (Guyenne) and 347 (Tunisie). YAFM is one of the largest independent aviation museums in Britain. Many of available displays are held in old airfield buildings. The whole site is opened to visitors - officer's mess, living quarters, control tower, fire station, aircraft hangar...

National Railway Museum

Warhammer World, Nottingham

Flakvierling #1 / Base & Body /

Assembly of Flakvierling started with laminating with card & cutting out framework and preparing the base. To upgrade my model, I've decided to replace floor panels provided by the kit (which are part of the framework to be cut away in this case), with floor sections made from scratch. I used wooden, flat sticks (eg. coffee mixer from fast food restaurants) cut down to strips of required size. Matches seemed to be a logical choice, but profile of single match is square and too high for my needs here.

Junkers Ju - 52 (BA)