This is a complete resin kit from Antares Models.

This aircraft was designed by engineer Heinz G. Sombold of the firm Bley placed in Naumburg/Saale in January 1944. Originally conceived as a parasite escort plane, the design was altered to obtain a weapon able to break Allied bomber formations over Germany.
A specially converted bomber carried the device to the enemy lines and launched it at a height of 400 m. Then, it began a parabolic approach flight propelled by the Walter rocket to avoid the enemy fighters.
The pilot dived in at a 45 degree angle, following a collision path with the center of the enemy “box”, then released the explosive nose and maneuvered to avoid collision.
In opposition to models “Komet” and “Natter”, the So-344 kept propellant enough to escape after the attack and was fitted with machine guns for its self-defense.
It had landing skids very similar to the ones used by Heinkel in the “Julia” project. The works about the So-344 were abandoned at the beginning of 1945 when a 1/5 scale model for aerodynamic tests already existed.

Technical data: Span 5.7m ( 18ft.1½ in.) Length 7m ( 22 ft.11½ in.) Height 2.18m (7ft.1 4/5 in.) Crew 1 pilot Armament: Fighter version was fitted with two MG series machine guns and a MK gun. The attack version had a detachable charge of 500 Kg ( 400 Kg of Amatol) in the nose, was stabilized by fins, and fitted with a proximity fuse of an unknown type. It kept the two MG machine guns.

The kit contains 26 resin parts, 2 vacu canopies, 1 vacuformed landing skid, photoetched seat belts, a decal sheet and instructions.

I first cut and cleaned the resin pieces,

Then I began with the fuselaje, it come in three resin pieces. You can put the bomb with the fuselaje or separeted from it. I decided to do with the bomb,

After I sanded the fuselage a put the wings and the bomb stabs,

Another interesting project from you, Daniel. This is one of the more bizarre projects and sounds a little like a suicide project although not so on paper.

Looking forward to see it with some paint on it.

Hi Jesper, I´m happy that you like this new project. And yes, it´s a very strange plane, and it was very near to be a real one.

After sanding all the parts I applied Mr Surfacer 1000 to advice any detail,

Then I airbrushed the panels lines with black to make the shadow effect after the paint.

Here I show you the kit finished, any comments are welcome

Welll done Daniel,

I m new on this forum and build exclusivery Luft46 project.
I m impresse by your production and the quality of your models .

Nice job, specially with some Antares Model . The resin is hard to work i think ( i have build the last Silvervogel of Marco, from Antares )

The Sombol look a little bit too...."special" for me and will not be in my futur list of kit

Hi Jengel,

Another Luft 46 enthusiast, that´s good

Thanks for your comments about the model