Many of you have seen this kit but it bears comparison with the Revells that a couple of you other guys are building. The PM kit consists of basically two big pieces, a sprue of a dozen minor parts, and a thick but reasonably clear canopy. And some useless decals.
I am interested in doing something like the Horton IX prototype so I will remove the guns and paint it as much like the prototypes as I can.
I guess we won't need to worry about these Horten kits being tail-sitters. The rear gear were so far aft that I don't see how the aircraft could have rotated on takeoff. In fact the front wheel, whose giant size I had always wondered about, must really have been the "main" gear in the sense of being first to touch down, likely last to lift off, and bearing most of the aircraft weight. The plane was also larger than I expected.
August
