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Horten Ho IX - Part IV

Here are the final touches in the cockpit and in the internal structure. 

By consulting the documentation is clear the presence of the heat shields around the engines, served to protect the central cell of wood. To build the shield on the left engine (it will be visible in the finished model), I used plasticard 0.10 mm. 

you can also see the dash completed in its sandwich structure, with detailed wiring of the instruments. 

let's see some images.

Here we can see the two engines cated with Alclad 2 Black, as a base for metallic colors

Pilot Seat

Ready for first assembly of fuselage

Here we have a scheme of the heat shield (green colored area)

Here we can see the heat shield around tle left hand engine

Thats all...

...Cya :-)

Horten Ho IX part III - Interior Painting started

After several days I have been busy (work, family ...). Here are the latest updates on the model. 

I finished adding the final details indoors, using a gallery on the Prime portal site (http://www.primeportal.net/hangar/howard_mason/go229/), 
and a gallery from the Blog Zoukei Mura.

here are two pics depicting the hydraulic jack for retracting/extend forward gear leg

Here we can se the leverages protruding under the cockpit

 Here we can se the hydraulick jack for opening/closing forward gear bay

here two images of Zoukei Mura's next kit, the Horten Ho IX in 1/32
I used as documentation for detailing my kit

Horten's Wonder Part II - Cockpit Tub in detail

Here my latest progress.

Left side

Right Side

General View

Front view showing also added oleo pumps for foot pedals

Instrument panel

Pilot seat

Cockpit tub with pilot seat

complete assembly

Horten's wonder

April 1945: As Patton’s Third Army rolls through Germany, XIII Corps captures
the Gotha aircraft plant at Friedrichsroda – and with it, fragmentary prototypes
of a mysterious aircraft.
It was the top-secret, highly experimental Horten project. Even if one of the
planes had been fully assembled, it’s doubtful many of the American soldiers who saw it
would have known what to make of a plywood twin-engine jet with no tail, no fuselage,
and no propellers. On a much smaller scale, the Horten 229 resembled the B-2 bomber
first viewed by the public in 1988. But this was 1945 – imagine what Kilroy must have
thought!
A half century later, the Ho 229 still captures the imagination of modelers. And in the
case mine, imagination and research led to details not found in Dragon’s
Ho 229 kit. No matter – armed with photos, drawings, and his own ideas of how things
might have turned out if the aircraft had entered service.


here few shots of the real thing

And here the kit build up

Details of new instrument panel

And the Jumo 004B