Dragon He-219b-1

[Maverick]

Just saw the Dragon 72nd scale He-219B over on Hobby Search  http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/  Whooo boy, that's definitely one sexy beast!  New canopy, lotsa detail and room for whiffed later variants.

Mav

[Captain Canada]

Didn't really do much for me until I clicked on the profile, with thodse wings ! you're right about that......super sexy !

 

[matrixone]

A 'must have' for me!

Finding time to build it is another matter.


Matrixone

[GTX]

I'd rather a kit or conversion to build either the He-219C-1 4 seat Nachtjager or He-219C-2 Jagdbomber.  



Long-span wing of He 219B combined with totally new longer fuselage with four-seat pressure cabin at front and gunner in HDL 131 V tail turret (four MG 131). He 219C-1 night-fighter with two MK 108 cannon under cockpit, two oblique behind cockpit and two 20 mm MG 151/20 in the wings. He 219C-2 fighter-bomber with two forward 30 mm MK 103 and three SC 500 1,102 lbs (500 kg) bombs under fuselage.

BTW - this is the sort of tail turret involved.  Does anyone know of a kit or conversion kit that might have one (preferably in 1/48)?



Regards,

Greg

[Maverick]

The later projects were certainly interesting ships to be sure.  In braille-scale (ie 72nd) there's the new Revell He-177A-6 with the four cannon turret.  As for 48th, unknown to me, gave up 48th during my marriage 'cause she decided that all my 'plastic planes' were too big. (A decent collection of Vietnam era heavy metal at the time).

John

[Allan]

And as for me what I'd like to do is put the tail gunner onto a Revell Uhu and turn it into a four engined job by cannabalizing two kits.

Allan in Canberra

[GTX]

And as for me what I'd like to do is put the tail gunner onto a Revell Uhu and turn it into a four engined job by cannabalizing two kits.

Damn fine idea!

Regards,

Greg

[Maverick]

I did Dragon's -234B yonks ago.  Didn't find that much wrong with it to be honest.  In fact it's one of the few kits that has survived a million moves with the least damage.  I also did the Mistel component of the He-162/Mistel jobbie, never got around the the 162 unfortunately.

The tail-gunner posit on the projected variants sounded quite neat, and I believe there was even talk of adding a gun to the Radar Ops compartment, or maybe they did on one of the variants?

Mav

[GTX]

I believe there was even talk of adding a gun to the Radar Ops compartment

He 219A-5/R4 - This version had a third crewmember, situated in a raised, stepped cockpit section. The armament saw the addition of a 13 mm MG 131 trainable rearward-firing gun for defensive purposes.



Regards,

Greg

[Maverick]

That's the chap!  I wonder if Dragon will consider adding it, given they've done the new canopy for the B?

Mav

[GTX]

I wonder if Dragon will consider adding it, given they've done the new canopy for the B?

If they don't, it should be relatively easy for someone to produce a conversion kit for it.

Regards,

Greg

[Maverick]

Airmodel produced a multiple conversion set, I believe, but it was a vac deal & very basic on the details.

Regards,

John

[Maverick]

I have to agree Wooksta, I was under the impression that even the late A variants were conjecture let alone B types.  My first impression when seeing this was another of Dragon's what ifs, like their C model Arados.

Regards,

Mav

[Maverick]

True the -234C, the Huckepack and Parasite versions and the -234P were paper projects or existed, but they were still that, non-operational prototypes or concepts away from the norm.

[Arc3371]

One B-1 flew but with DB 603Aa instead of Jumo 222 engines.