Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWII. Show all posts

Monday, April 11, 2022

[FREE] 1/144 Tupolev Tu-2 "Bat" Papermodel


Designed as high speed bomber or divebomber, with high performance in speed and bombload, this aircraft played key role in Soviet Air Force during World War II

In Indonesian Air Force, this aircraft career is sketchy at best, what we know is is this aircraft served for less than a year before returned to Soviet Union due to engine problem (turns out using an aircraft designed in cold European climate on Tropical country isn't really a great idea) or donated to other Eastern Bloc countries, overshadowed by other Soviet aircraft design such as Tu-16 "Badger" and Il-28 "Beagle".

About the model: this pattern, like the previous MiG-21 are also a part of submission for Peri Kertas design competition.

Preview: it's the test-build model, some of the modeling mistakes are already rectified (i hope).





Sunday, November 28, 2021

[FREE] Tachikawa-Kokusai Ta-Go Papermodel

A simple and cheap aircraft made of wood and fabric, this aircraft were designed for kamikaze purpose against Allied forces when Operation Downfall, the proposed Allied plan for the invasion of the Japanese home island kicks off, fortunately for both sides, the war ended before Operation Olympic starts.

The original Ta-Gō, powered by a Hitachi Ha-13 Ko (450hp) and could carry a 500kg bomb was destroyed in a bombing raid while the revised Ta-Gō with smaller airframes, engine, and bomb was left incomplete.



This model was made by Argwenza Kainaka (you can find his Facebook page here), he didn't specify the scale though since it was originally a scratchbuilt papermodel (but he speculated it might be 1:60 from its size). The pdf file includes the model itself and its instuction manual.



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.