Pre-WW2 Heavy Bombers - Micro Scale

Spats! Struts! Open cockpits! Big airplanes before powerful engines and real streamlining. Add a bit of brass trim and smokestacks... steampunk!

I decided to make printable models of some of the heavy/medium bombers which could have seen combat if the Second World War had broken out earlier. These models are original and have been “bulked up” to print at 1:350 for use in dioramas with 1:350 model ships, but they can be printed at popular micro-scales of 1:285 and 1:200 (123% and 175% respectively).

Bloch 200 - French braced high-wing monoplane bomber, fixed spatted landing gear. First of a series which later led to low-wing, stressed-skin and retractable landing gear bombers.

Dornier Do23 - German braced high-wing monoplane bomber, fixed spatted landing gear. Developed from the very bad Do12 and Do13 which were part of the clandestine rearmament program.

Handley-Page Heyford - British biplane heavy bomber, fixed spatted landing gear, bombs carried in and on the below-fuselage wing center section. Slow but efficient, some squadrons still converting from it in 1939.

Potez 540 - French braced high-wing monoplane heavy reconnaissance/bomber with retractable main landing gear(!) Used in French colonies into World War 2. Flight (main gear retracted) and ground models included.

Tupolev TB-1/ANT-3 - Soviet all-metal, stressed-skin heavy bomber (fixed landing gear, corrugated aluminum skin) which appeared earlier than the others (1929) but was still in secondary/arctic service into World War 2. Outstanding achievement, but follow-on four-engine TB-3/ANT-6 dwarfed it.