Italeri 1/72 Horsa Glider added to my gliders

[jeaton01]

Just finished the Horsa from Italeri. Fit was pretty good on the major parts but other parts like the landing gear had no locating marks so it was off to the photos, and Italeri would have you put the aileron mass balances on backwards. RC 56 glue for the windows worked well. Paint is Tamiya dark earth and dark green, Model Master for the flat black and the white. The decals from 3 kits were a complete mess so some are from spares and others are from a laser printer. The nose wheel was lengthened with brass tubing and music wire.

With the Airfix C-47 (as a C-53), Italeri 1/72 CG-4A, and Airlines/Frog Hotspur

Horsa, CG-4A, and Italeri Me 321 Gigant, with an Academy Dodge ambulance for scale:

 

[Paulw]

Awesome stuff, John

 

[Old Dog]

Excellent !

 

[sharkman]

Nice one John!
Everything I’ve read and seen about these gliders makes me wonder how anyone could have climbed aboard them

 

[moon puppy]

Excellent John, you're about ready for the invasion!

 

[Skinny_Mike]

Solid build! Love the group photo

 

[centaur567]

Wow!! what a beaut!!! :drinks Gary S. XXXXV XX XX

 

[razordws]

Nice collection of gliders John!

 

[jeaton01]

Thanks, everyone, much appreciated.

 

[Flyingbabydoc]

What a beautiful collection John, congratulations.

Your Me-321 is amazing as well.

Cheers

Alex

 

[phantom II]

Great line up John now you need a Russian one

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[jeaton01]

Thanks, Alex, I've enjoyed your recent posts. Glad to see you back at the bench.

Christian, I do have an Antonov A-7 and a Gribovskii G-11 in the stash. Maybe someday I'll get to them.

 

[phantom II]

I have never seen either one or a Japanese one for that matter . I know they all had something

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[Frank]

Very nice John.

Frank

 

[jeaton01]

Thanks, Frank.

Christian, according to Rene Francillon's book, during WW II in Japan there were a number of experimental training and troop gliders, but only one that was operational, the Kokusai Ku-8, which was the result of removing the engines and other modifications to the Kokusai Ki-59 twin engine transport.