[Gort]

If you groove on Luftwaffe experimental & planned aircraft, get a load of this: YouTube - Luftwaffe 46' Experimental & Planned aircraft of Germany

All of which inspires yet another Gort question ...

If Hobby Master or Witty or Corgi or whoever produced a bunch of these lovely little gems in 1/72, would you buy them? Even if their camouflage and liveries were based on pure conjecture?

My take ...

Oh, man, I’d go ape crackers!!! I’d buy these would-be jets and prop-jobbies so fast it would make your head spin. But that’s just me.

How’s ‘bout you?!

[Captain Eddie]

Experimental aircraft that were actually built? Maybe. Planned aircraft never built? Definitely not.

[1250ships]

I'll be interested to hear what people think about this. There is an extensive debate in the 1/1250 ship community about ships that were planned and never built or finished. Some folks refuse to buy them. Others love them. A third group will buy models if the ships were started but not finished or if there were orders placed and official naval plans drawn up. The most recent debate focuses on the Montana class battleships that the US Navy ordered then canceled in 1943 before the ships were layed down. One manufacturer is releasing next week a Montana as planned based on the US Navy plans and official models. Two other producers are doing Montanas as they believe they would actually have been completed with updated AA outfits.

Image a hypothetical FW-900 that was drawn up with 30mm cannons. And then a diecast company says, "well if it had actually been completed in 1946/1947 it would have had new AA missiles replacing the 30mm cannons". Meanwhile another company is doing the planned version. That is what is happening with the Montana models.

[Cruver Collecter]

Aircraft that were test beds, or saw limited action, would make for some neat looking models. As far as hypothetical what ifs go, absolutely no interest there.

[brunowbe]

Horten Flying Wings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rush104]

Personally, I think the manufacturers ought to concentrate on the more popular, widely used aircraft that many of us have been clamoring for (MiG-15, the remaining Century Series, etc.) . After more of those types are released, then I would be open to buying some of the Luftwaffe X-planes (but only the ones that actually made it to the hardware stage, not the ones that remained paper designs only). Just my opinion...

[derhamburgerjung]

Only design ideas that never took off for a flight? No, not for me.
I have a hard time already to collect all the models of "real" airplanes, I don´t need the fictional ones

[Nimrod48]

The He162 Volksjager variants would be welcome as would the Horten flying wing & long range jet bomber Ho XVIII B

[fileasfog]

I might be interested, depending on the design. However I would rather see obscure and weird looking biplanes or seaplanes that actually flew.

[bsmith13]

I have a thing for experimental aircraft, so my vote is definitely suspect. However, even though I would love to have Luftwaffe test projects in my collection, I don't think they have broad enough appeal to be a viable project. And I can always get an injection molded or resin kit if I need a quick hit.