To To add to the CADs we have the features & art in our updated preview…
Preview Update: Takom’s two new Horten Ho 229’s & separate pilot in art, CAD & details…
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Horten H IX (or Ho 229 or Gotha Go 229) a little history before we begin…
Reimar and Walter Horten designed many gliders in the pre-Luftwaffe era of the German 1930’s, so when Germany came to the fore in aviation with the Nazi Party in power and spending a lot of money on new radical designs, it seemed natural for their revolutionary “tail-less” designs to follow the air force into the spotlight of the world.
The development of Jet engines seemed a natural fit with their large winged gliders, and so came the almost mythological Ho 229. The One can see how this will be not just a popular model with the “Luft 46” people as well as other modellers who want something a bit different but wholly conceivable in the skies over Europe in 1945.
The H IX/Go 229 was a single-seat fighter bomber with a 16-metre wingspan and twin jet engines, and it was a further development of the H V and H VII designs. The Six V The Here The The The pilot (Ziller) apparently landed short or was the victim of a stall after misjudging his approach and effect of drag by lowering the airbrake and power available and was killed in the crash.
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V.3 – was being built by Gotha at Friedrichsroda as a prototype of the series production version and was later shipped to the USA.The V.3 was never flown
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There are several options with this kit. This The Kit Three two pilots and the elongated cockpit to house them in, along with the other features you have seen already in this preview…The same airframe pretty much, but with the addition of the radar antennae and the air-to-air missiles that were also in development (planning) at this late stage in the war.You see more of the inside; with the wings removed also, there will be heaps of modellers making this to look a little like a barn-find or the NASM version.
The two pilots are, of course, included in this two-seater!That is all we have on this one for now. This