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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: anton ryzbak on 03 April 2021, 06:34:44 PM

Title: 1/72 Airfix Blohm & Voss BV 141
Post by: anton ryzbak on 03 April 2021, 06:34:44 PM
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Switching gear away from planes with spats and starting on my collection of "What Were They Thinking?" aircraft. The lead-off plane HAD to be the BV 141; it wins for ugliness, impracticality and simply missing the point. more here:    https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2021/04/what-is-that-thing.html (https://antonswargame.blogspot.com/2021/04/what-is-that-thing.html)
Title: Re: 1/72 Airfix Blohm & Voss BV 141
Post by: fred on 03 April 2021, 07:16:27 PM
I’d forgotten all about this weird plane!

The kit sounds even worse than the actual plane...

Did you make two, or have you did some photo jiggery pokery to get a brown version and a grey version?
Title: Re: 1/72 Airfix Blohm & Voss BV 141
Post by: anton ryzbak on 03 April 2021, 10:47:32 PM
I would never build another (OK , that's not true, but you would need a bushel basket of hundred dollar bills before I thought about it) the different color background freaks out the camera on my Galaxy S9 and shifts the entire color spectrum of the photo
Title: Re: 1/72 Airfix Blohm & Voss BV 141
Post by: WuZhuiQiu on 03 April 2021, 11:22:53 PM
Nice work, in spite of the kit's limitations. I checked the wikipedia entry, and they would seem to have been quite a bit faster and had a longer range than the FW 189, although perhaps they would have lacked its evasive manoeuvrability.
Title: Re: 1/72 Airfix Blohm & Voss BV 141
Post by: Iain R on 04 April 2021, 07:14:49 AM
Hahaha, you sir, are a man after my own heart. I remember seeing a picture of one of these in an old Commando comic many moons ago and 8 year old me being somewhat puzzled by it. Definitely a lesson in "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should".

As for no one wanting a slow, poorly armed and unmanouverable recon plane... er, guilty. Given the choice between fielding effective but pedestrian units, or characterful trash, I'll field the obscure junk every time. Case in point; my proxy for the already rubbish Fairey Battle-

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