Wednesday, September 8, 2021

[FREE] 1/800 Sverdlov Class Light Cruiser Papermodel

 


Sverdlov Class (Project 68bis), built in 1950-s were the last gun cruiser of the Soviet Navy. While provided with modern radar and anti-aircraft gun Soviet Union had to offer, they were already rendered obsolete by the entry of service with the advent of missile age. Of the planned 40 ships of the class, only 14 completed and remained in service until the 80s.

One of the ship, Ordzhonikidze, was sold to Indonesia in 1963 and renamed IRIAN in 1963 in preparation of  impending invasion of West Papua with the main task of hunting down Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman. 









Actually this model pattern were made as somekind of an study, since i'm still trying on SketchUp and Inkscape, due to such "experimental" nature of the model, there is no assembly instruction available, but you can see the photos from the tesbuild phase as a reference. As for the cannon part, i use  0,3 mm mechanical pencil lead.


Friday, September 3, 2021

[FREE] 1/250 "Mistel" Flying Bomb Papermodel

Mistel (German for "mistletoe") was the larger, unmanned component of a composite aircraft configuration developed in Germany during the later stages of World War II. The composite comprised a small piloted control aircraft mounted above a large explosives-carrying drone, the Mistel, and as a whole was referred to as the Huckepack ("Piggyback"), also known as the Beethoven-Gerät ("Beethoven Device") or Vati und Sohn ("Daddy and Son")

Another simple 1:250 scale papercraft consisting of a Bf-109 fighter and the projectile itself.

[FREE] 1/250 Heinkel He P.1068.01-83 Papermodel





Description from luft46.com:

"In 1942, the RLM contacted Junkers to design a four-engined jet bomber, which became the Ju 287. Meanwhile, Heinkel also did some design work on this specification. In June 1943, the RLM issued a different specification for a two seat bomber with a bombload of 2000 kg (4409 lbs) and a speed of  800 km/h (497 mph) over a range of 2500 km (1554 miles). Siegfried Günter of the Junkers Design Bureau in Vienna designed at least four versions of the P.1068 by the end of 1943. Some of this design work was later used for the Heinkel He 343. On the third design, the P.1068.01-83, the wings and fuselage were reduced in size in order to increase the speed but keeping the same payload. Of course, the smaller fuselage meant a reduced fuel supply, and so the range was less than the first design's (He P.1068.01-78). Four He S 011 turbojets located on the leading edge of the wing were to provide the power. Remote controlled, rear firing armament was included with this design also. However, the aircraft was lighter by four metric tons, which was of a benefit given Germany's scarcity of raw materials at this stage in the war."




Simple 1:250 papercraft consisting of 2 model, the original with thick line and the reworked version with thinner line and different color.