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A project that was sitting since too long on my bench: a German "Natter" on its launch ramp. The Bachem Ba 349 Natter (Viper) is a rocket-powered interceptor developed by Germany from late 1944. It is a rather small aircraft measuring 6m by 4m, built mostly from wood except for the armored cockpit. It was launched vertically from a ramp designed to be basic. Armement of 24 rockets was installed in the nose and designed to target allied bombers. The Natter never entered into operational services. Its first piloted flight ended tragically with the dead of the test pilot and crash of the prototype aircraft. No allied airplane was ever shot down by a Natter. However, at the end of WW2, allies showed a lot of interested into German late-war technologies and attempts to grab and study everything they could. Ultimately, the Natter generated more"what-if" stories during the post-war years than any result in the airs. Because the Natter was never deployed on large scale, I only put simple markings on it: 2 Balkenkreutz (black cross) and simple technical writings next to the cockpit hood; but no swastika on the tail. View from the sky, with the rockets in the nose. Quite a nice and unusual view for airplanes. I also quickly assembled a small trailer to transport equipment. Based on official models, of course. When taking black and white photos, it almost look like photos form back-then. I really enjoy them. As an amusing coincidence, only a couple of days before finalising the layout, I stumbled across the picture below depicting a very similar scenery: the Natter on the light launching ramp made of wood. But this photo shows american soldiers analysing the place before taking a Natter away. Small game: Can you identify the non-LEGO element of this MOC ? There are some but in very limited quantity. (click below to reveal the hidden content and discover the details) If you like this MOC, I would appreciate you to also like this Instagram post. By doing so, you would boost my participation to an online contest https://www.instagram.com/p/DMsQpPxowGA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Thank you! As a conclusion: I truly enjoyed building this MOC. While the aircraft itself sat on my bench for 6 months before I finally completed the layout, I quite like the end result. The trees are nice as well. And the layout is not too fragile. No glue was used. :)
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Hello everyone, my name is Ivo and this is my fist MOC. I've returned to Lego after 20 years when I started playing again with my son. He is now almost 5, and we're building every day together. I've started this project with literally zero brick (I didn't want to steal parts from our playing sets) and zero experience, so it took my about 14 months of planning, acquiring parts and building it. There are many things am not fully satisfied with, but I've had so much fun making this project and I guess that's what really matters. I've tried to recreate a scene from a German WW2 mythical "Die Glocke" project. Allegedly, die glocke was a top secret German wunderwaffe or wonder weapon project with purpose of changing the course of war. There are many speculation of what actually the glocke device did once after it was activated. There are many theory - biological weapon, anti-gravity device, even torsion field generator that can alter time and space. But am not about to bore here with technicality speculations, especially because the device was never found after the war, and there is no real proof of anything about its function. Although some elements of my project are trying to be as much as it can be called authentic (experiment location, glocke device look, bussing nag 4500 crane truck) almost everything is purely fictional. Thanks for stopping by and of course comments and critics are always welcome. DGE01 by Ivo Hilje, on Flickr DGE04 by Ivo Hilje, on Flickr DGE05 by Ivo Hilje, on Flickr DGE08 by Ivo Hilje, on Flickr DGE15 by Ivo Hilje, on Flickr DGE20 by Ivo Hilje, on Flickr DGE21 by Ivo Hilje, on Flickr DGE29 by Ivo Hilje, on Flickr DGE31 by Ivo Hilje, on Flickr
