JV 44, 1945  Various 1/32 Kits 

by Chris Novak

Hi guys, after getting a lot of nice responses for my last post "Ernestyne" I´d like to present you the last finished "complete project" of my collection: the complete "Sachsenberg-Schwarm" ( 4 planes, some sources say there was another one, maybe "black 12" but no serious infos here), made from 4 different
kits throughout the last year and finished just in time for an model-expo in our area last October/November. Like the most of you I saw one plane from time to time in several forums or magazines in different scales but never all 4 together so I declare: this is the first complete "Papagei-Staffel" in 1/32..( just kidding)..ok, to be serious I hope you enjoy it, thanx lot to Jerry Crandall and EAGLE Cals for this great sheet which was used for this project, here they are:
First one is "Red 1": the first Dora I build and the only one of the project which is not in my special "cutaway-Style" ´cause when I build it 2 years ago I never thought that some day I would "scrap"  a kit to look inside. "Red 1" is the old HASEGAWA special issue "Fall of the Reich" with metal prop and landing gear, built OOB. Next one is "Red 3", an old REVELL release, nothing to say ´bout the quality of the old Revells ( cause everybody knows ´bout it), but when I decided to build the whole Schwarm I thought it´s time to get some of the old kits out of the closet and start sanding, rescribing and so on.

Next one is "Red 4", also a old REVELL kit, converted to a "D-11" with flat cowling, larger oval style supercharger air-intake handmade, Material for the interior and structure of fuselage and wings is modelling wood ( plywood, 3 layer, 0,4 - 0,8 mm), sheets of modelling aluminum-plates ( 0,2mm) and many electronical-parts from scraped computer components, also different brass and alu wires and tubes for metal landing- gears, motor details and so on, Oh, because the HASEGAWA has no motor I made a few copies from the REVELL motor in Resin. Next one is "Red 13", the absolutely great new HASEGAWA kit, just in time released to get the schwarm complete ( ´cause I started another old REVELL kit for "Red 13", but now she has to wait to get a new identity) Painting for all kits is handmade "brushpainting" (don´t use an airbrush) with a special mix of REVELL-colours and oil-paints, finish is also a special mixture of "antique-furniture-wax-and-something-else"( top secret!) Decals for all kits are from the great EAGLE-cals sheet.