Daydream Notes

Luftwaffe bombers 1944. [KG 100 under air attack 1944.] When you read The Big Book of Luftwaffe History , one surprising thing you notice is how hopeful the Luftwaffe and its managers in the  Reichsluftfahrtministerium [RLM - Reich Air Ministry] were at the start of 1944. This hope was not irrational, either: there were several factors, even facts, to underpin that hope, and it was a durable hope, too, lasting throughout even the spring of 1944, when the already battered Luftwaffe took terrible losses as they lost control of the skies over Germany. The most impressive fact was Armaments Minister Albert Speer's expansion of German fighter production, while dispersing the factories: 27 big plants were turned into roughly 270 dispersed ones, keeping production of basic fighter types (the Bf 109 and Fw 190) resilient in the face of Allied bombing.  Even as the spring losses mounted, Germany made good and even gained fighter airframes: in January, fighter deliveries were 50%...

So I was in another group build (think book club, but with model building) and the kit picked was a small Gundam kit. I've never seen anything Gundam, so all I can tell you is that a Hi-mock is a training giant fighting robot. The kit was impressive though, both because it was cheap, and because it was really well constructed - tons of articulation, and didn't even require glue. Well, I think it was the roundness of the head and shoulders, and the default color scheme, but I made mine to look like a watermelon. People liked it.