1/48 Scale Arado 234 "Blitz" Bomber

[mustang1989]

I started this kit over three years ago and ran into a lot of problematic areas with this kit. To say that this kit has now moved into #1 on my most difficult/ frustrating and sometimes angering build would simply be an understatement. It was so bad that I stepped away from aircraft building altogether for those 3 years. Some of it I brought on myself by making things more difficult than they needed to be and other areas were just plain ridiculous the way Hasegawa put this thing together. This kit is touted to be one of the best scale model representations of this iconic plane and on that point I'll agree once it's built. Getting there was the difficult part for me. Enough of that banter though. Thanks go out to all who followed, commented and helped out since its beginning....(Bish and TempestJohnny you're both in that group) both here and abroad.



After 3 long years my Arado is finally completed:


















In progress cockpit shot:




and an engine shot:

[stevielewis]

Awesome build! Those close up pics of the cockpit and engine are fabulous! Look forward to seeing this one finished.

[41chevy]

Awesome!!! I have a TA152 in the line up to start with the Aires and CMK up detail sets. But that is on hold waiting for the USS Langly to arrive. Paul

[mustang1989]

Nov 27, 2019 12:49:48 GMT -6 stevielewis said:

Awesome build! Those close up pics of the cockpit and engine are fabulous! Look forward to seeing this one finished.

Thanks a lot Steve. She is finished actually. I left all the panels off of the engine to show 'er off a little. 

[mustang1989]

Nov 27, 2019 13:38:21 GMT -6 41chevy said:

Awesome!!! I have a TA152 in the line up to start with the Aires and CMK up detail sets. But that is on hold waiting for the USS Langly to arrive. Paul

Thanks Paul. 

Say....which Ta 152 do you have? I've got the Zoukei Mura one in the stash.

[stevielewis]

You did a great job on it. I like it.

[41chevy]

Dec 3, 2019 10:45:50 GMT -6 mustang1989 said:

Nov 27, 2019 13:38:21 GMT -6 41chevy said:

Awesome!!! I have a TA152 in the line up to start with the Aires and CMK up detail sets. But that is on hold waiting for the USS Langly to arrive. Paul

Thanks Paul. 

Say....which Ta 152 do you have? I've got the Zoukei Mura one in the stash.

I have the Dragon TA 52-CO, TA 52 HO, TA 52 H1 kits and one other from the early 1980s that was one of the first with cast pewter and PE parts that Dragon based theirs on. All the German jets and rocket plains are my real favorites, I have more than 100 and all the conversions for the ME262

[mustang1989]

Dec 3, 2019 10:46:08 GMT -6 stevielewis said:

You did a great job on it. I like it.

Thanks Steve. I've got a real oddball aircraft that I'd like to build but I have to get through two more auto builds before it's on the bench.

[mustang1989]

Dec 3, 2019 12:15:37 GMT -6 41chevy said:

Dec 3, 2019 10:45:50 GMT -6 mustang1989 said:

Thanks Paul. 

Say....which Ta 152 do you have? I've got the Zoukei Mura one in the stash.

I have the Dragon TA 52-CO, TA 52 HO, TA 52 H1 kits and one other from the early 1980s that was one of the first with cast pewter and PE parts that Dragon based theirs on. All the German jets and rocket plains are my real favorites, I have more than 100 and all the conversions for the ME262

Oh man!! The Dragon kits!! I've got a Ju-88/ Fw-190 Mistel combo in the stash. Looks like a good kit and all but I don't like the way Dragon does their instructions. Confusing at times. I'd really like to build a U-4 version of the 262. Something about a 50mm cannon hanging off the front on a jet like that that's just evil looking.

[41chevy]

I have 2 of them from Dragon and 1 from TriMaster with the US post war markings. I basically have all the 262 kitsby DMl/Dragon. TriMaster and Tamiya including a Trimaster limited V3 tail wheel version, DML 262 Mistel plus all of the other Mistel kits. I have basically all of the German jets,bombers, rocket interceptors, Mistels and long gone Aero Bonus 262 Pulse Jet conversion and the delta wing 262 proposal plus the rarest of the rare by Pendinghaus . . . JU52 Tank killer with the pak 36 88mm half exposed from the lower fuselage one build and captured also most all FW190 /TA52 versions, He 162, Me163 fighter and 2 seat trainer and Ju 88 and 188 series.
I study the DML instructions and see what sub assemblies I can build and the easy order of assembly. The Ju 88 and Ju 188 kits I found alot of the internals can slide in from the bomb bay. DML does give a lot of spare and optional parts which is cool.