From Fw 189 into madness

[Tophe]

I have looked in my kit collection to find the next one to build. One of them was half built: Airfix Fw 189A 1/72. Though I had bought another kit of the same a few years later, having forgotten the unfinished one! And I had also got a 1/72 Czech Resin CMK Fw 189B (without glazed nose & rear pod)… What to do with all that…???

 

[Tophe]

I have already drawn a dozen what-if Fw 189… Will I simply build 3 of them, or 2 including a twin-pod? Of course they would have the standard engines, not the radials that I kept from my first drawing (Fw 189E).

[Tophe]

Finally, I plan to do something like this Fw 189 ABA nick-named Waterloo…
It would have in-line piston engines - or no engine, singing in rhythm being enough to fly…

[Tophe]

Obviously, this will not be as easy as I thought… The 3 basic model are glued, while the what-if junction now must occur…

I consider removing the rear cones to decrease the length of the 2 front pods, to have them closer and reduce the total size – that frightens me…
For the two Fw 189 twin-boom tails that will be removed, the destination will not be the garbage can but (as currently planned) use to turn twin-boom the Bv 141 and the Kiowa helicopter, simply…

[The Rat]

Hmmm... I'm looking for a bucket of cold water to throw over them. Wonder what the gestation period is?  

Quick suggestion Tophe - when you post a bunch of pictures like that, put a number on each one, that way people can pick their favourites easier.    

[Tophe]

Are you referring to the collection of 12 drawings above? They are not new at all…
From top to bottom, then left to right:
- Fw189S-72/144 & S-48/72, see Twin-Whirlwind topic, entry April 3, 2005
Fw189E-2 & E, see Twin-Whirlwind topic, entry July 12, 2005
- Fw189E & T, see see Twin-Whirlwind topic, entry April 2, 2005
Fw189T-2 & T-3, see Twin-Whirlwind topic, next entry April 2, 2005
- Fw119 & 119U-2, see Twin-Whirlwind topic, next entry August 15, 2005
Fw189Y, see Twin-Whirlwind topic, next entry September 30, 2005
Fw189Ez, see my (free) book “The end of Forked Ghosts”
I was just gathering them here, trying to choose what to build…  Before choosing still another one: Fw 189ABA.  

[Allan]

Tophe

That triplet is such a great idea.

Jump into the deep end and have a go!

I'd just about be the weirdest model I have ever seen.

Allan in Canberra

[Tophe]

Thanks for your so nice words Allan ^_^ , while... what is the meaning of "jumping into the deep end"?  I know the "dead end", alas , is it the same? it seems not, I just try to understand...
PS. I am almost in a dead-end, actually, with my 1/72 XP-77Z (P-7117): the vacform canopies were so thin, they broke and I filled all with putty to paint them black, but sanding they still broke again... I have left this model aside not to loose enthusiasm in modelling. I will come back to it later. Maybe.

[CanisD]

"jumping into the deep end" refers to bravely taking action without reservation or hesitation, as if "jumping into the deep end" of a swimming pool.  

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot, dear teacher, this is "plonger dans le grand bain" in French, that is clear, and I will...

[Tophe]

Update: after one tail has gone to the Bv141 and the other to the Bell Jet-Ranger, the triplex twin-boomer is taking shape. While a huge amount of sanding will have to be done before gluing the 3 elements...

[Tophe]

An egg-189 would be nicely crazy too, as suggested by the square thumbnail at
http://www.equatorstudio.com/gallery.php?l...stroud&pageno=3 . Most of all, a triple-egg-189 would be smaller for my shelf (if lengths were reduced, not heights increased)…

[Tophe]

Yes, what if???

 

[Tophe]

I have discovered French caricatures that I did not know yet, put on the Web in 2003-2004, made by TinTin, featured at http://miguel21.free.fr (then click on “Croquis”) with hundreds of lovely other planes...

So here is another cartoon Fw189AAA:

In plastic, schedule to finish: Bv 141 then Flamingo then Me 262... then Fw 189.

[Tophe]

Sanding on the pods is almost finished. And I have also cut the final front end of the booms (engine-less, propeller-less)