No. 10 for 2016 - 1/48 V2 Rocket

[AndrewDoppel]

This was another kit on the shelf of doom that I needed to finish and remove. It's the crap Pegasus 1/48 V2 Rocket completed as the one in storage at the Treloar Centre at the Australian War Memorial. I have also included images with the 1/48 Tamiya V1 and 1/48 Revell Me109 to give an idea of size/scale.

[tor lives]

Really interesting model of the world's first ICBM. And the ME 109 and V1 really does give a sense of scale.
Just a cool and unusual model.
TOR

[AndrewDoppel]

Cheers mate

[Adam the Akrodude]

Nice work Andrew. The V-2 is indeed big - extraordinary tech for the time. Saw one at the Imperial War Museum in London years ago. Got to watch another design of Werner's when I was 5 on TV - Apollo 11 launch!

Ain't war hell. One of my father's uncles was killed by a V-2 when one slammed into a railway station in London. One the other side of the coin, I have two relatives that flew in Lanc's - one as a pilot in 460 Sqn and the other as a "Master Bomber" Nav in the Pathfinders. One side of the family on the "receiving" end, the other on the "giving" end.

Besides being fun, I do think modelling in a way keeps history alive in a way. The V-2 lead directly to the moon - from a weapon of war built by slave labour to achieving man's greatest achievement - all well within the lifetime of a man.

Cheers

Adam

[tor lives]

Nice work Andrew. The V-2 is indeed big - extraordinary tech for the time. Saw one at the Imperial War Museum in London years ago. Got to watch another design of Werner's when I was 5 on TV - Apollo 11 launch!

Ain't war hell. One of my father's uncles was killed by a V-2 when one slammed into a railway station in London. One the other side of the coin, I have two relatives that flew in Lanc's - one as a pilot in 460 Sqn and the other as a "Master Bomber" Nav in the Pathfinders. One side of the family on the "receiving" end, the other on the "giving" end.

Besides being fun, I do think modelling in a way keeps history alive in a way. The V-2 lead directly to the moon - from a weapon of war built by slave labour to achieving man's greatest achievement - all well within the lifetime of a man.

Cheers

Adam

Well said Adam.....it is ironic that some of man's biggest technological leaps and advancements have been as a direct result of us trying to kill each other . What a weird and funny little species we are. I often wonder what future alien archaeologists will make of us when they dig up the remnants of our civilisation, (I hope they find a 707 ).
TOR

[AndrewDoppel]

Thanks guys. Both my parents grew up in Germany during the war and both saw horrific things although they would never speak of specific things. My grandfather was lucky enough to get out of Stalingrad on the last train out due to a stomach ulcer otherwise he probably would have died at the hands of the Russians. He was a firefighter in Hamburg before being conscripted by the Wehrmacht and sent east. He told me he never fired his gun.

The only story I now recall my father ever telling me besides seeing the RAF bombings of towns was of watching his girlfriend disappear in a bomb blast whilst he was waving at her from across the road.

As you've both suggested it is interesting to see how things have developed from the weapons of war.