From early 1942 Chief Designer Richard Vogt encouraged his team at Blohm und Voss to come up with solutions to aeronautical problems that defied convention. One such solution was the P.163, which rather than using aluminium was to have been built from steel. The unusual design was to have a crew of four housed in two wingtip nacelles, bomb load was to be 2000kg and armament seven MG151/20, four of which gave excellent rearward defence and one housed in a fully rotating turret. Two versions were planned, the P.163.01 powered by a Daimler Benz DB613 inline engine and the .02 powered by a BMW 803 radial. To test the viability of the design a BV 141 had another fuselage nacelle attached to the port wing and one statement records that the aircraft was controlled from it. No photographs exist of the aircraft but there are two composites online one of which is an altered image using the BV 141 V9 and this is the one I based my model build on. So on to the model....
I built the Airfix kit of the BV 141 when it was first released in 1971 and it shows, heavy enamel paint lines, no sanding, glue runs etc. I obtained another kit from Wizzle as once I'd seen an image of the adapted BV 141 I had it at the back of my mind to build one using my original as a start point. Much scraping of paint and transfers, over several sessions, was followed by repeated sanding and undercoats. The second nacelle was built after removing the wing roots with the tab holes blanked off with plastic card and smoothed over with filler. Once built the nacelle was attached to the wing, which had had it's tip removed and a section of plastic card attached using superglue gel and Platic Weld to get as stronger bond as possible.