1/72 ‘combo build’ FW J.P.011.45

Gallery Article by Andre Mimizu on Sept 23 2011

 

From the late 1930's right up to the end of World War II, Germany had developed plans for advanced fighters and bombers. Many were of jet designs. This Focke-Wulf design is for a twin-jet nightfighter and dates from March 19, 1945. However, my build is a day fighter. Note the structure of the plane. It is very much tail heavy, more so when two MK 108 30mm upwards firing cannons were to be embedded in the tail section. Another change made was to the mid landing gears. It closed into the wing and not the body as some diagrams show.

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It was to be constructed entirely of Duraluminum. The wings were mounted mid-fuselage and were swept back 30 degrees. Two He S 011 turbojets were located beneath the cockpit side-by-side. Without the two tail embedded canons, the projected armament consisted of four MK 108 30mm cannon firing forward in the fuselage nose. Needless to say, this design was only on paper. Just one of many of the Luft '46 projections that were planned but never built.

I labeled this as a 'combo build'. Several model kits were used to create the FW J.P.011-45. The body, wings and front landing gear are from a MPM Mig-9f Fargo kit. The wing landing gears are from a Heller Me BF-109 K-4. The tail horizontal stabilizers are from a Kpro Jak-23 kit. Bondo and a lot of sandpapering was done to give the plane its final shape. Since I didn't have any fancy painting equipment, it was done using canned spray paint, the kind you buy from any hardware store. I made the plane at scale 1/72 by comparing the specs of both the Mig-9f and FW JP011-45. Since the Mig was smaller, the wingspan and body length were extended accordingly. 

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