Pauls Hasegawa Arado Ar234B-2 Blitz 1/48

[Quax]

Been looking for one of these kits at a reasonable price and thanks to evilbay here we are. This came with the Airwaves wheel set which was nice and I might yet raid Hannants for some other bits before I start. I know the glazing has a seam in one of the main bits so if I cock it up trying to remove there are a number of Vacformed ones available.























The fuselage does have some scratches on it where the plastic has moved around in the single bag but they should polish out



I also bought a book to go with it which contains complete plans up to 1/32 scale






cheers

Paul

[Quax]

I have rotated the pictures in Flickr so hopefully it will catch up, the other thing is again no rivets but apparently the rivets on the 234 were all covered over/filled so as to disappear so at least thats not a worry here

[digger303]

I've always found this a weird aircraft to look at yet I do like it..it puzzles me.
We should have just had a Arado forum build

[Tomcat64]

Ok this is one I've never come across before - looking forward to seeing it come together and off to do some research

[Quax]

so.
as ever life is not quite going to plan. As well as Parkinsons I have now collected Prostate cancer to my list of ailments, fortunately found early enough (and by serendipity) that all looks very good but the biopsy and the aftereffects are not fun. Because of this I just sort of did this as and when and didnt really bother about the photos, so I apologise in advance. Im not sure whether this will be my last contribution for a while but lets see what happens.

anyway as to the kit: Its not all bad, getting the glazing to go together correctly is a trial and (as usual) I failed - well it looks ok from a distance The major downfall of this kit now is that the decals are dreadful, if you're going to buy this kit plan for adding an extra market decal set or mask set, I had to use a mask set for all the crosses except the swastika which was a learning curve as I'd never used them before and unfortunately the two wings ones arent in the same place I was tempted to use an Extradecal swastika pair but one worked ok and the other partly disintegrated so I saved the good ones for another day. I didnt quite build it as the instructions suggested as I added the engines to the wings before they were joined to the fuselage, this allowed me to fill gaps easier but made painting tricky... I didnt use the metal gear legs that had come with the kit as they were all way to short but I did use the two main resin wheels (not that you can tell). The plane is meant to be vaguely representative of one from KG76 that attacked the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen in March 1945 with a fading winter cammo. Good luck guys and I hoe to see you soon!









cheers

Paul

[digger303]

I'm glad you caught the prostate cancer in time. I lost a cousin to that last year all because he was too frightened to go get checked out. If you can't get a whizz over and done with in quick time you should go get checked.....putting the soap box away now.
The kit became a very nice model...despite it needing some filla

[BigWall]

Great looking plane Paul! Hang in there. I'm glad it was caught early.

[ForeverPlasticKits]

Wonderful kit (which is in my stach), great result and very nice paint!