I/D models metal 1/100 ?

[fliegerii]

This week I saw two olive painted Alu models of ME-110 and HE-111, both in scale 1/100.
They were looking like ID models, but I have never heard about a company making 1/100 scale ID models casted in aluminium.

Any idea?

Regards,
Christian

[BWBrown]

Hi -
I don't know if such models were intended for recognition training, but they seem to have had some military purpose. I have a black aluminum Meteor MK. 8 with a label from Rowley Workshops on one wing, and a RN stores label on the other wing which identifies it as #9236 in some series. It is crude aluminum, with a rectangular hole on the bottom. The hole appears to be lined with copper sheathing. There are UK models having a military usage in all kinds of strange scales, like 1/100, 1/110, 1/135, 1/144, and 1/180, in addition to the usual 1/72 and 1/48 scale models. Did the ones you saw have the same characteristic rectangular hole in the bottom?

[fliegerii]

It was an Ebay auction (280424132357) without showing the bottom of the model.
My guess is also something coming from UK. The HE-111 is a later type and I cannot imagine the Germans to have used aluminium for manufacturing of ID models, as they restricted the use of this metal for the making of real planes during that time.

[grwebster]

Chris, I wonder if it could have been a Swiss ID like the 1:100 scale ones i posted in
viewtopic.php?f=17&t=90#p213

I couldn't find the ebay item with that number, could you provide the entire adddress

[grwebster]

there is a Rowley Workshops metal Id for sale here
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-MiG-17-FRESC ... 4837d03d17

[fliegerii]

Re MIG-17:The seller says, it's wood

The auction number ist correct, take care of removing the brackets out of the number.

[grwebster]

worked for me as is