He 162FgR Flügelbombe gegen Radaranlagen 1/72

[UhuFin]

At early 1945 German Diplom-Ingenieur Erik Fuchs-Suchs at C. Lorenz AG proposed a radar-homing missile to destroy British Chain Home radar stations. His friend Doctor Fritz Paraman gave him the blue prints of Heinkel He 162 to work as a basis for this weapon. This resulted the He 162FgR or "Flügelbombe gegen Radaranlagen". It was launched with rockets from modified sWS half-track vehicle. It was used only once operationally on 4th of May 1945 when three units were launched towards British Isle. Two fell into the English Channel while one found a target; a radar station in Hopton. Radar operators noticed that this missile was coming straight towards them so the y shut down their transmitter and the FgR lost it signal. It went off course and fell somewhere into Norwick.



Heinkel He 162 is modified from AZ model kit. The launcher is modified from Modelcollect kit and the sWS is from Revell.









Radar antenna are from Eduard FW-190 kit




WIP

[PR19_Kit]

Another set of invisible pics for UK based viewers.     

[sandiego89]

looks great, really like anything zero length launched.  Great idea and execution. 

[Old Wombat]

 

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice, even though I'd have removed the canopy removed/smoothed out altogether and left away the swastikas.

[zenrat]

 

[frank2056]

Looks great; at first I thought it was in a much larger scale (1/32 He-162 on a 1/35 halftrack

[Stan in YUL]

that looks brilliant!

[comrade harps]

What a clever idea! I'm impressed 

[su27rules]

          very nice!!