Fischer Modelle
Plastic kits
In
PAK-20 John Burns writes about
FISCHER MODELLE
West Germany, not producing
"Though these kits appeared more frequently
as built-ups using the
NOCH
logo, they were also marketed briefly as
kits in the mid 1960´s. There have been
reports of a single kit containing both the
Boelkow Phoebus and Boelkow Jr. gliders but
this has not been confirmed.
He lists the following kits:
FM-1B Ka-10
FM-4B Ka-10 w/trailer
FM-6B Boelkow Phoebus
FM-8B Boelkow Jr.
FM-12B Schleicher ASK-13
FM-14B Schleicher ASK-13 w/trailer
FM-15B Hang Glider 1)
FM-16B Dornier Do-28
"
Scale is HO that corresponds to 1:87.
A recent phone call to NOCH company
in
Germany I was referred to a gentleman who
alledgedly was longest in the business. But
he does not remember much and told me that
there is no company archive.
He confimed that Fischer supplied parts for
aircraft kits to NOCH, which assembled and
packed them.(see my
NOCH
page) .He talked of gliders and
remembered also a hang glider.
Fischer is no more existing. NOCH thought
about it, but in the end did not buy the
moulds. He does not know where to find Mr.
Fischer and supposed he even may have passed
away.
In the Modeling column of
FLYING REVIEW INTERNATIONAL Vol22 No 14
October 1967
W R Matthews) reviews a Fischer kit:
" GERMAN SAILPLANE
A new West German company, Fisher, has
issued a neat little model to 1/87th scale
of the Ka-10 sailplane. This is accurate and
extremely well made, and it can be assembled
literally in two minutes.It forms part of
a set which comprises a VW Karman Ghia coupé
, a trailer for the ailplane (the wings of
which are detachable to alow loading) and a
hangar. By the use of all these items an
attractive gliding scene may be assembled. A
similar set comprising a Boelkow Phoebus
sailplane, a Boelkow Junior tug, a winch,
windsock and six figures will be issued
shortly.
Remark
1) The SG-38 was first flown in 1938 and one way to
get airborne is to launch it via the bungees , one of the oldest ways
to get airborne, conveniently from a slope.
So the SG 38 is not like a contemporary Hang Glider,
where the pilot hangs on the aiframe.
Hang is German for slope, so obviously the
designation Hanggleiter is used wrongly by
NOCH.
Real life SG 38 :
http://www.airliners.net/photo/1403659/
References
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Fischer Modelle
Plastic kits
FM-15B Hanggleiter
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