Arado E.555 - Big time Luft '46 (OOB)

[Faust]

Highly advanced German jet bombers have made it across the Atlantic and now threaten New York!

Space-age technology years ahead of the Allies allows the Luftwaffe to strike back! America’s nose bloodied!

Hitler’s new fighting jets open a terrifying new front in a truly global war! War Cabinet sent reeling!

If those sound like headlines from a pulp fiction novel, dime-store boy’s annual or some kind of alternate history movie poster, then you’re pretty much on the right track. However, it’s also an accurate depiction of the box art on one of my favourite models of all time, the ultra-futuristic Arado E.555. This titan of Luft ’46 subjects is still a kit I can’t believe that a mainstream kit producer actually made, nevermind that it has seen multiple releases! The crazy part is that this 6-engined flying wing was a real project, this particular variant being the first in a family of “Amerika Bombers” developed by Arado.

For a look at this “not-quite-ripped-from-the-headlines” bomber, check out the link below!

adamrehorn.wordpress.com/revell-germany-1-72-arado-e-555-out-of-box/

[mustang1989]

May 12, 2021 20:42:47 GMT -5 Faust said:

Highly advanced German jet bombers have made it across the Atlantic and now threaten New York!

Space-age technology years ahead of the Allies allows the Luftwaffe to strike back! America’s nose bloodied!

Hitler’s new fighting jets open a terrifying new front in a truly global war! War Cabinet sent reeling!

If those sound like headlines from a pulp fiction novel, dime-store boy’s annual or some kind of alternate history movie poster, then you’re pretty much on the right track. However, it’s also an accurate depiction of the box art on one of my favourite models of all time, the ultra-futuristic Arado E.555. This titan of Luft ’46 subjects is still a kit I can’t believe that a mainstream kit producer actually made, nevermind that it has seen multiple releases! The crazy part is that this 6-engined flying wing was a real project, this particular variant being the first in a family of “Amerika Bombers” developed by Arado.

For a look at this “not-quite-ripped-from-the-headlines” bomber, check out the link below!

adamrehorn.wordpress.com/revell-germany-1-72-arado-e-555-out-of-box/






This should be good. Will be watching.......

[Faust]

It's a wicked-cool kit. It's really part B-2 and part Millennium Falcon. When you see that was something taken seriously and planned out, and then you see boring stuff like the B-45, it makes you wonder how all that imagination ended up in one place. Heck, if it wasn't for German engineers and British Engines, would the Soviets even have had decent jets until the mid '50s? Of course, you could say that the British hardly had them at all... (see Attackers, Swifts and Javelins for details)

If it's as nice as the other RoG Luft '46 kits, it should be awesome.

[harron68]

Far-fetched, but could be an interesting project. Improve the details a bit, maybe add some weathering, and it will be a fine model! Thanx.

[mustang1989]

May 19, 2021 8:03:49 GMT -5 harron68 said:

Far-fetched, but could be an interesting project. Improve the details a bit, maybe add some weathering, and it will be a fine model! Thanx.

Pretty much all the Luft '46 concepts were far fetched but were really cool ones and it does make for interesting builds.