Here it is, the finished Ho 229B.





A rare in flight picture of the Ho 229B.


Matrixone

Hi Les

Excelllent! It a good job you don't model UFOs - with your talent, you could keep conspiracy theorists busy for years!

All the best

Rowan

Hi Les!

That's a nice UFO... errr... Horten! :-)

It looks very good and I also think you did a great job on the camouflage.
I have one question though: you said it is finished? So no undercarriage and no radar antennas?

Jean-Luc

Les, looks great......
got one of them in the closet..... :-)

Thanks Rowan, Jean-Luc, and Dave!

Jean-Luc,
This model was built for somebody else and he requested the model be built with the wheels up and no radar antenna attached.
I am working on another Ho 229B for myself right now and I will be building mine wheels down and all antennas added.





Matrixone

Looks pretty cool. Great work. But it loos weird without anthennas:} Just an idea, you could add a closed radome anthenna. I guess the owner was afraid that these stuff will break, it could be a solution for it. Looks cool anyways:}

Way cool, Les, she's a beauty. Reminds me of my old days playing "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe" on my computer (back when you could be slow and uncoordinated and still do a flight sim).

A great job on the model, and I love the camo scheme...I hate doing this,but could I ask the colors you used for this. I think I have an idea, but am not sure of the mottle color. I have a kit of this, and would love to do a similar scheme on it.

Thanks very much, and again, great job on it.


Mike

Thanks very much JollyRoger, luftwaffle, and mj!

JollyRoger,
The shape of the Ho 229B is very 'modern' looking and the antennas spoil the sleek lines of this a/c, the person I built this model for made it clear that he wanted no antennas added to this model because it would spoil the looks of it. The Ho 229B is the best looking design the Hortens brothers ever had and the radar antenna almost looks strange on this a/c but would have been needed if this a/c saw service.

mj,
The base color on the Horten is the late war version of RLM 76 (a very pale light blue/gray) and the mottling is RLM 75.
I used Model Master enamels for the paints.

Matrixone