wonderful work!!!

Incredible design, wonder if it was inspired by the Spruce Goose?

That one is on my list of models to make some day.... just can't get enough flying boats!

beautiful rendering, as always! as to garlor's question, it seems unlikely that the spruce goose inspired the bv238 except in concept only - and then only if germany had some extraordinary intel: the idea of a mammoth, troop-carrying flying boat was first proposed to the u.s. war department in mid-42, and hughes's famous 'goose' didn't fly until 2 years after the end of wwii. design of the bv238 must have begun no later than mid-43 (and likely somewhat earlier, due to the complexity inherent in its size) for it to have flown in march '44. the passing resemblance between the two behemoths is therefore in all likelihood just another case of 'great minds think alike'! :)

great work.

Great views of another massive flying boat that never went into the production stage. The only one built was moored on Lake Schaal when it was destroyed by strafing P-51s.

I think the main inspiration was the desire to convey high explosives to New York...;)

One of the German big boys.. that never really came to fruit.. Stunning work.. In real life and your 3-way! well done.. rob.

I did not even know they built or designed any of these. Cool

Great work. Dana

What a beautifully realised concept and particularly in this unharmed version. It was a massive brute, but difficult to see how it might have been used at such a late stage in the war, and when air-superiority had been lost to the allies. By inserting "Lake Schaal, Ratzeburg," in Google Earth you should be taken to the spot where it was destroyed with pictures, and a view of the lake.