Hi all!

This is my latest build: Fliegerhorst's 1/48 Gotha P60C
It's my first full resin kit and I decided to go for a 100% speculative paint scheme and decoration. The "Totenkopf" was meant to go with the white antennas... As there were no decals in the kit I had to use my spare ones.
I hope you enjoy my pirate plane!









Jean-Luc

Very nicely done, as usual, Jean-Luc. Is the nose art of your own design ?

Hi Jean-Luc

That's a beauty! A lovely job on the camouflage and panel shading. How does that stalky undercarriage hold up under the weight of the resin?

All the best

Rowan

Hi Chuck and Rowan!

Chuck, the "Totenkopf" is my own design. It is directly paint brushed on the model... I'm a "Totenkopf" specialist

Rowan, fortunately Eric Kappner (Fliegerhorst) molded the resin landing gears with metal rods in them... The main weight being on the main landing gears, the front undercarriage doesn't has to support that much weight though...

Thanks for your kind words...

Jean-Luc

Very nice. "Q"

Jean-Luc,

Remarkable! This is a model that everything comes together upon--colors, shapes, patterns, workmanship. So convincing that I can see it as having been operational.

Super job!

Allô Jean-Luc!

Your Gotha P60 looks very convincing for a Luftwaffe 46 project!
Excellent build (as usual from you) and an expert choice of colours - it brings out the details of it!
Also enjoyed the TotenKopf and white antenaes in the nose - hmmm could it be there an influence of Gimenes's "La veritable hsitoire de Leo Roa"?

Congratulations on another wonderfull plane,

Skipper

PS: I see yu edited your banner :-)

Hi all!

Thanks Matthew, Fred and Rui for your kind words...

As I began to build this kit, I first wanted to do an extravagant four color dazzle pattern with red engine cowlings and... I finally decided to do something more serious! I found the plane's shape strange enough not to add more with a weird paintscheme...
But I must admit I may have been influenced by the comics I read for the "Totenkopf" idea. But frankly, if you would have been a German Gotha P60 Nightfighter pilot and you would have seen those white antennas on the black forward fuselage, wouldn't you have painted a "Totenkof" on it? :-)

Jean-Luc

Very nice Jean-Luc. The colors you used and the shading make this a very nice build, could you imagine trying to land this thing? Great work, Wingman out.

Hi wingman!

It's funny you are saying that! We are trying to make an IL2 FB online Armorama Arena currently and I said in one of my post how difficult it is to land with an airplane... even with a computer simulator! So landing with the Gotha.. Pffff! No way! :-)

Jean-Luc