Red Baroness and her X-163 Rocketplane

[Amalric]

The Red Baroness and her X-163 Rocketplane!


Ilsa von Richthofen, the daughter of Manfred von Richthofen shown here posing with her Rocketplane. Manfred, the hero of the Franco German war of 1917, had been developing the experimantal craft in 1937 with the help of friends Alexander Lippisch and Hellmuth Walter. He was killed in a suspicious automobile accident after a reportedly rather loud disagreement with his former wingman and now commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Göring. After her father's death, Ilsa took the X-163 Rocketplane to her uncles estates in England where she began her famous career as Aviatrix and Rocket Ace, fighting the communists over England and then later over China.
-from Osprey's Rocket Planes over England 1937-1939.


Hans Schmidt, hardened veteran of the Franco German war and of the German civil wars, was the commander of the infamous Rot Helms who guarded Ilsa and the X-163 whilst on the ground.


Lord Blackacre came to see what all the  hullabaloo down at the aerodrome was.



Lord Blackacre [Artizan], Frans and Hans Schmidt [Copplestone]


I say my dear, looks like you could use a bit of ammo.
Lord Blackacre bearing a new plot point!

Pics in color.

[Michi]

That is ace - and what is red is faster, we all learned from the Nottingham beast. The wings are an aerodynamic catastrophe beinig mounted upside down, but who cares - the rocket engine will accelerate that power egg to a speed that it wouldn´t even need wings at all...

I love the story behind it. Great introduction and fantastic conversion and paintjob!

[Mr. Peabody]

Beautiful!

The weathering is marvellous an the colour scheme is pure Pulp. I doff my hat, sir.

[d phipps]

Excellent! 

[Amalric]

Thank you gents for the kind words.

...The weathering is marvellous ....

And heavily influenced by you and the usual suspects here on LAF.

[Amalric]

I forgot to mention the WiP is here;
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=62140.0

[Katsuhiko JiNNai]

Intriguing  background and really nice painted models  
I suppose soon we will see some pulp adventures with leagues using many aicrafts  

[Jocke]

As a huge von Richthofen Fan, I love her... 
Great Paintjobs and a real Pulp backstory...

[Alcide Nikopol]

Excellent work.

[Prof. Dinglebat. Phd.]

You made me spill my Schnaps all over my Der Adler magazine.   Your post was well worth it.  

[Mad Lord Snapcase]

Marvellos work, I love it!