Hi there! Another airplane it is. Unbelievable. Five models in one month. Wahey!
Blohm und Voss were later on in the National Socialist period quite well known for their flying boats but they started out when they purchased the Hamburger Flugzeugbau (the Ha- part in the name of the plane). Uninvited but nevertheless with the "best" intentions, they entered the competition in the mid-thirties to build Germany's new dive bomber. The Ha-137 was competing against and eventually lost out to the equally archaic looking Ju-87. Both sported inversed gullwings to keep the non-retractable landing gear short. And there the comparison stops. The Ju-87 had room for two, the Ha-137 carried just the pilot. The Ju-87 was large, the Ha-137 looked more like a fighter, albeit with an open cockpit, something the Ju-87 didn't have. Anyway, bla bla bla. Ju-87 won, Jericho trumpet, bla bla bla, obsolete, bla bla bla, Allies won.
But the Ha-137 looked to me like a nice little plane to build. But to me it looked better without the nazi-parafernalia on its hull and wings. So I removed all lettering and emblems.
The very nicely designed model is created by Der Kampfflieger, Roman Vasiliev, from Ukraine. The parts fit very well. I built it 1/72 and that's smaller than originally intended.
It received a spinning propeller and well, it was an easy and straightforward build. And that's pretty much it, actually.
I already am working on the preparations for the next model. It will be very small, and - finally - something space-related again.
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