Brengun 1/72 Natter M23 finished

[Faust]

When they say “Truth is stranger than fiction”, sometimes, they aren’t kidding! The desperate last days of WWII in Germany saw any and all ideas for defence of the Reich at least given consideration, no matter how outlandish they were. That some of these ideas were greenlighted, and even made it to the flying stage, says a lot about the state of Germany’s science and politics in the early-middle ‘40s.

One of the weirder and more dangerous vehicles to make the leap from napkin to launchpad was the Bachem Ba-349, or BP-20, “Natter”. A vertically-launched, tiny, rocket-propelled point-defence interceptor, it was the original “missile with a man in it”. Not surprisingly, there are a lot of kits of this weird contraption, and one of the newer ones is the Brengun model in 1/72. This comes in a bunch of realistic and “What-If” flavours. The one I opted for was Mustermaschine M23, which is the first, and only, Natter to launch with a human pilot on board.

Check out this neat little kit at the link below, and tell me what you think: Red or Black for the underside?

https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/brengun-1-72-bp-20-natter-mustermaschine-m23/

[the goon]

Very nice. Like the red underside.

[bisc63]

Just now saw this one! I think your deduction of red for an experimental aircraft makes sense, and it does look cool. Late war German aircraft experiments are so "out there" it makes for fun modeling for sure! I was lucky enough to score (on eBay) a 1/48 Dragon Models version of this very same aircraft, and it waits patiently in the stash... As for the missile-with-a-man-in-it-concept, this ranks right up there with the ArE381 "Julia".

You did a beautiful job of whipping this little guy into shape. Well done, especially the paint finish.