Model, text and images by Luca Cinacchio

Quoting from Wikipedia, "The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229 (often, and wrongly, called Gotha Go 229) was a German prototype fighter/bomber designed by Reimar and Walter Horten late in World War II. It was the first pure flying wing powered by jet engines. It was the only aircraft to come close to meeting his "3×1000" performance requirements, namely to carry 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) of bombs a distance of 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) with a speed of 1,000 kilometres per hour (620 mph). Its ceiling was 15,000 metres (49,000 ft).

Along the time, Revell released a full serie of experimental German planes in the 1/72 scale, like this one. They are nice kit, with good recessed panel lines, decent level of detail, at a very affordable price: very enjoyable kits.

Construction started as usually with the cockpit: althugh not so much detailed, it is quiet enough for the scale (and in any case not very much is visible with the closed canopy).
The cockpit was then inserted on the "fuselage": as you can see from the images, due to the peculiar design of the plane, the engineering of the kit is slightly different from usual, but everything snapped together with no problem at all: indeed the fit of all the parts was superb... good job Revell !
After assembling the main components of the plane, painting process started: first was the lower fuselage, made with a mix of Gunze Aqueos color. Then i moved to the upper part of the plane (and here my camera decided to get crazy, so I couldn't take any photos) applying the 2 main color of the classic splinter scheme with hard border. But to make the model more attractive, I added a mottled pattern on the front of the wing... being this just a prototype plane, i think that my artistic license can be accepted.
As usual the model was completed with some (but noot too much, for my personal standard) weathering, using pigments, drybrushing and washes.

And here the images of the final reveal.