Thanks so much, fellas. I’m hurting. Real bad. I loved the hell out of that dog. Oh my god.
I was digging though the kit’s box and found this single baggie with a little piece of plastic in it. I opened it up and what did I find but a 1:48 Dachshund! I did some reading about it and apparently the Luftwaffe gave the Zerstörer crews a wiener dog each to take along on missions! So here it is, folks! This’ll be my first model airplane complete with a “crew”. I’m gonna saw off the block, paint him, and put him in the pilot’s seat.
Also- this is the smallest, most highly-detailed (read: “fiddly” due to all the photo-etch parts), cockpit I’ve done so far. Shown here with treble hook for size reference. And I’ll be doing Theodor Weissenberger’s aircraft, with the Dachshund tearing apart an enemy aircraft graphic on the nose. I miss my dog. So that all seems appropriate.
