While you were building this, I couldn't be sure if it was a model, or one that might actually fly because of all the detail!

I'm half expecting your next journal to be a report that the thing's vanished and there's a hole about the right size for it to fly though in the roof of whatever building it lives in...

... And that the poor confused thing has landed in the nearest town to you called London.

That's really cool! I dig stuff like that :) How much did the model cost?

The build used only a couple of parts from the original kit, the upper fuselage shells, everything else is scratch-built. The kit had only crude vac-formed half-parts and a few, mostly fictional, "detail" parts. Ebay can find the thing for around $200. but that is only because it is a very scarce kit, not that it has any real value as a model. For my time and effort to build everything else in it, add another thousand or so (and I'm selling myself VERY cheap for that). I may sell copies of the parts I made, and instructions to do the thing up correctly.

Wow, it came out great!

Well, look at all this, then.

That came our beautifully! Thanks for4 sharing!

You should find it a good home where others can see and learn from it. One that you can visit.

Nice!

Von Braun and his crew must have felt the same way about their earlier efforts. "Well, heck, something's broken loose inside and rattles around, but as long as we can launch it, its a SUCCESS!"

More likely they were paranoid about anything at all rattling around, least it create a variable that might influence what did or didn't go right or wrong. They were engineers, after all. It would have been the combat launch crews that would have been overjoyed just to get the thing on site and erected without breaking something or have something important fall off. A fair percent of the war rounds needed to be returned for repairs or rejected due to rough handling or last minute discovered flaws/failures, and even the seemingly perfect rounds all too often did "bad things".

Neat! Congratulations!

Great to see it finished at last. Nicely done! :)

Looks like it came out quite well, despite the few rattles.

Weapon of mass destruction detected!

Damn that's neat. I always love when models have cutaways to internals like this one does.

Whens lift off?

Also, was slave labor used?

Considering my ill-considered price quote, pretty-much.

Excellent work sir even with the loose parts. It was very interesting seeing it come together. Looking forward to see what you come up with next.

Sweet!

Excellent work, Steve!

Reminds me of the time I assembled a cutaway model of a nuclear submarine and showed it off proudly to a young nephew.
"That's silly. All the water will just rush in and sink it."

Actually, the horrible thing is still not done. There have been putty shrinkage and paint cracking, so it has been going through several rounds of repainting. I hope to have the last touch-ups done tonight, maybe.

Oh! I just noticed how you made the edges of the transparent parts look like a classic "Cut Away" drawing. Subtle, and clever.

Bereite die schwarz-Gerät und Raketen 00000.

A rather expensive way to get a ton of explosive from Point A to Point B. Germany spent more on its V-weapons than the US did on the atomic bomb.

More a matter of them spending an equivalent percentage of their budget, not the total costs. The German GDP was only a fraction of the US's. Yet another reason that Germany couldn't pursue an atomic bomb program. Along with never getting the physics quite right, they could never have afforded the massive industrial investment into U235 extraction.