Matchbox Arado Ar234 Blitz / V1 1/72 Review
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Arado Ar234 B2 /C2 / C3 Blitz bomber & V1 from Matchbox, kindly loaned by Jon Bevan.
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Hi Peter. I bought this kit when I was a kid. As one of the previous comments says this is an old Frog kit and that was what it was when I bought it. The funny looking bags as you call them are actually parachutes so that they could re-use the Rato motors and the tank as you call it is actually the lower half of the V1. The two cockpits are for a single seat or twin seat version. I have an old box of aircraft spare parts somewhere and I am sure that there are still parts of this kit that I never used still in it. Those twin engine nacelles are in that box, possibly also the twin cockpit too. The original Frog box didn,t look anything like the Matchbox one but hey it was a long time ago. Good video, and some old memories to. Thanks Peter.
hello again,this is actually a FROG kit from 1976. the pillow like object on the RATO unit is actually a parachute used for recovery after take off.
I wish Matchbox kits were still being produced.
This is an old Frog kit from the 1976.
Yes that makes perfect sense, it has no sign of Matchbox DNA at all.
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab I do have it in an old frog box.
I remember buying it at Hobby House in Decatur, Georgia, in 1976. It was in a Frog box at the time and was brand new. Revell of Germany got the molds after Frog closed in 1977..
I built this as a Revell kit (ex-FROG) about 40 years ago. Shape wise it's not too bad. The one area where it really needs fixing is the strut arrangement for attaching the Walther rocket packs. FROG moulded these as solid when they are, in fact, an open truss arrangement. If I was building it today I'd scratch build the struts using plastic strut material.
Good to know.
The drop jets had a parachute on them to re-use, the Me -321 Gigant had a bunch of them too
They were Walther rockets, not jets.
@@EricIrl Jo cheer up sunshine
@@glynmatthews6697 Bit of a difference.
I carefully built this decades ago and used strong magnets to allow me to do both variants and switch the nose and engines as wanted.
It is baffling that they then decided to brand it as a Matchbox, isn't it? Less than honest of Revell...
I had a FROG kit back in the day that was exactly the same as this. So not originally a Revell or a Matchbox kit.
My brother tells me that the things you jokingly referred to as packet of spuds were actually parachutes so that the rocket boosters could be jettisoned once airborne and parachuted safely to the ground and reclaimed for another flight.
You are spot on with all your comments there. FROG tooled kit from 1976.
A jet to launch a buzz bomb made sense because a V-1 piggybacked to a Heinkel, slowed the 111 below 200 knots with the extra drag. This made them easy picking for night fighters, and losses were considerable.
Раритет...и довольно неплохой.😊🎉
The RATO rockets where designed to be dropped straight after take off , they had about 20 sec of burn , once used they would be ejected by the pilot and float down on there parachutes to be collected and reused.
Frog kit! 😱
I would still love one in the stash.
Awesome subject.
Got a few of these in the stash (both the FROG and Revell of Germany boxings). Though completely eclipsed by the Dragon? toolings, this is still one of my favorites. Along with the Do-335, Ta-152, Fiat G.55 and the Spitfire Mk XIV with Buzz bomb, this was the FROG "late war" homage. Love it!
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I have the frog version too. It was never operational but a "what if". It's not the best quality. You could probably make an improved model by mixing a decent twin engined like Dragon with the quad engines from this.
Hot x bun .
The problem with the V-1 was that it had a range of 150 miles. Various aircraft (notably the He III) were used to launch V-1s in an attempt to increase this range. While not very accurate, a city or a moving enemy division was a big enough target to offset this.
It's an SC 1000, (1000 Kg) not an SC 100 as printed. The recovery parachutes on the RATO packs were actually quite useful, but I'd bet that even with RATO, 2 tons of bombs AND a V-1 would be an excessive load.
It's interesting that the fixed, rear-firing 20mm cannon (the only defensive armament fitted to these aircraft) are present in all versions, bur there are two different periscope sights.
As V-rocket launch sites began to be overrun by the allies following D-Day, the German high command adopted a policy of launching V-1s from aircraft. This was even less accurate than the original deployment efforts, and an attack on Manchester at Christmas Eve 1944, saw rockets land as far north as Spennymoor in County Durham to Newport in Shropshire. One even fell at Woodford in Northamptonshire, while 14 dropped into the North Sea. Sadly, the size of the intended target was sufficiently large than Manchester and the Lancashire towns saw considerable civilian casualties. In one case a row of terraced houses in Oldham saw 27 killed and 49 injured from a Heinkel launched V-1.
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its actual an old frog kit i think
Yes indeed. 1976.
Hello Peter, Pulse jets need to reach a certain speed before they function. If their ramps and rocket sleds were not available then they could be launched from aircraft
The bag of spuds is a recovery chute for the RATO pod
The bag of spuds is a recovery chute for the RATO pod
Pulse jets work just fine at zero airspeed. The ground launched V-1s had their motors started before they were started accelerating down the launch rail. You might be thinking of ramjets which have zero moving parts and need to be going quite fast, a few hundred kmh to start. Ramjets work best at supersonic speeds.
@russelltaylor535 actually depends on their size and pulse setting. Larger ones like the V1 ran at 45 pulses per minute and at low speeds leaked around the valves. Hence the need for rocket or aircraft assisted launch to help them reach a speed wherecthey we're efficient.
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But they don’t need to be moving to run
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Do you ever build any of these old kits? And why do you wear those creepy black gloves?
1) Yes - search the channel for many examples. 2) As explained in the vid, this belongs to someone else, who doesn't want my fingermarks all over it.
What a weird set up, are those things attached to the wings some sort of cluster bombs?
They look like they have parachutes attached, the mind boggles at what the Germans came up with in those days!
Looking forward to your vid.
No they are RATO pods (Rocket assisted take off) so I suspect they are parachutes to recover the pod later!
@@Peter-Oxley-Modelling-Lab thanks.
@@paulcrombie9623 My pleasure Paul, though in the vid I was equally confused and suggest it is maybe a bag of spuds! (Ballast?) 🤣
These were the same engines the Me-262 had?
@@Emdee5632 Yes
Didn't these attack the bridge at Ramagen
Yes indeed and they missed, (!) though I think they were the 2 not four engined variant. 👍🏻
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Bad instructions, a lot of flah, not a matchbox so 8.5 would be fair especially as its an odd kit and has 3 options in it.