#horton ho 229

[deutschland-im-krieg]

Horton Ho 229 V3, captured and shipped back to the States. This is the one and only time it was assembled. When captured in Germany it was incomplete, the fuselage/centre section was many miles away from the outer wing panels when discovered by US troops. The Ho 229 was the only jet powered flying wing that actually flew during the war.

The second prototype, V2, was destroyed and the pilot killed on its second powered flight. This is the third prototype and was taken to America under Operation Paperclip. It was the world's first stealth aircraft, although its stealth capabilities were only discovered after computer modelling in the 21st century. For more, see my Facebook group - Eagles Of The Reich

[thedalekstumble]

Ho-229 Commission for Sovietrainbow! Learned a lot and got to experiment with different ways of approaching a workflow to producing a model! Also a bit of post processing lol

[usafphantom2]

The Horten Ho 229, late WW2 German prototype fighter/bomber. First flying wing powered by a jet engine. First to incorporate stealth technology.

@ron_eisele via X

[vizrecon]

[itsmajork]

So, tonight I’ve been doing something I’ve wanted to for a long time, and redrawing some characters I was working on for a fanfic years and years ago (and 3d comic before that) called Transformers: 1942.  Basic idea is fairly simple - Transformers wake up in 1942 instead of 1984, in the middle of WW2.  Decepticons side with the Axis powers, while the Autobots side with the Allies.

I’ve had the idea of revisiting the characters for a long time.  I have gone and done several takes over the years, but Skywarp was never one I came back to.  All of the Decepticon jets were rendered as air vehicles I found on the Luftwaffe 1942 site, which were in-development vehicles at the end of the war by the Luftwaffe.  Skywarp was a Horton Ho 229, Thundercracker as I recall had a giant prop in the centre of his fuselage, and Starscream was an Aredo E.555 flying wing bomber.  Skywarp had some funky stuff going on with her head, as can be seen in the colour picture - she looked more like the classic Cybercontroller from Tomb of the Cybermen rather than anything.  Now, I’ve taken inspiration from Nagatoro.

Completely not finished yet.  Transformation might not work out this way, but it gives me something to start playing with.  I want to come back and do some more characters and scenes, but... maybe I should, with a bit of history, as a memory aid.

[absolutelyrandom-blog1]

This game never ceases to amaze me

[peashooter85]

I don't suppose you could add the names of the german super weapons so I could read up on them further?

From top to bottom in order

Me-262

ZG 1229 Vampir 

V1 missile

V2 rocket

Horton Ho-229

Me-163 Komet

Fritz X radio guided bomb

BV-40 glider fighter

Maus

Landkreutzer P.1000 Ratte

Schwerer Gustav

German atom bomb project

Taifun coal dust gun

Triebflugel

Heliobeam

Die Glocke

[shadow27]

The space shuttle Discovery is cool, the SR-71 Blackbird is cool, the mothership from Close Encounters of the Third Kind is cool. But the ONE-AND-ONLY Horton  HO 229? Even in parts she is off the charts!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229