1/72 Airfix Blohm & Voss BV 141

[anton ryzbak]

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

[fred]

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?

[anton ryzbak]

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

[WuZhuiQiu]

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.

[Iain R]

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-