Blohm und Voss BV P-194 - German attack aircraft - prototype

The Blohm & Voss P 194 was a German design for a mixed-power Stuka or ground-attack aircraft and tactical bomber, during World War II. Along with the P 192, P 193, and P 196, the P 194 was one of four designs Blohm & Voss submitted in response to a requirement issued by the RLM in February 1944 for a ground-attack aircraft and tactical bomber to replace the Junkers Ju 87"Stuka". In the event, the RLM decided not to go ahead with a new aircraft but instead to adapt the existing Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter to the tactical bomber role. Like several other designs by Richard Vogt, the P 194 featured an asymmetric arrangement. The fuselage was broadly similar to that, of the BV 141: the crew and weapons were carried in a large nacelle offset from the main fuselage structure, that carried a propeller-driven engine in the nose and the empennage at the rear, joined by a common wing. However, in the P 194, a turbojet was added low down at the rear of the crew nacelle and the thrust from this engine was intended to help balance the thrust from the propeller. A powerful cluster of guns was to be located in the nose of the nacelle, clear of the propeller, and a bomb-load of up to 500 kg (1,100 lb) was to be carried in an internal bomb bay in the fuselage. Using a high proportion of steel in its structure, the design of the P 194 was simplified by using a significant number of parts from other projects, notably the BV 155 prototype and earlier BV 237 asymmetric "Stuka" proposal. Only a natural-size model was made.

Quite complex due to the intricate shapes, a well-designed model for intermediate to advanced modelers. Well detailed cockpit interior, piston engine, chassis, exterior detailing, there is even a bomb, that can be placed in the bomb bay, the control plates are just separated from main plates. Colors are not in stock.