Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet

Rick Corts will follow this when you start!

Magnus Svedberg Be prepared to wait for a few years

Rick Corts Hahah sure i am! Then it will be a nice surprise to see it!

Christopher Mullins This is as finished as I can get it right now because I dont have any clear parts for it. I was thinking about getting some from Squadron, but I had problems with those last time i got some, I just could not get them cut out. It has a lot of detail with the decals, and I find myself asking what some of them are for, like the yellow C and white T on the fuselage. Decals took about 2 hours yesterday while there were quite a few. If I can find another one of these cheap I will get it and finish it, or maybe Ill get the crystal clear canopy from Squadron and try those again, not sure.

stefan natus Hey phil nice to see that you are back,and already go shopping

Philip De Keyser Hey Stefan, it is good to be back, yes I'm already go shopping, and started with this one, How go's your project? already some paint on? greetz Phil

stefan natus Dumped it in the trash can ,had some accident with my jar cement.

Philip De Keyser That's bad
What's the next one? are you going to Telford? I can't go this year, I have something to do on the job maybe next year, next month it's Lier, are you going to?
Greetz Phil

stefan natus Didn't build much lately,i am in a little depression after my glue accident .
We are leaving next Friday (first club meeting) night to telford.
If nothing stand in the way i will go to lier also.

Christopher Mullins If anyone has a Komet and are going to use AM canopies, I would gladly take the OOB Canopies off your hands, the model I got off Ebay was missing the clear parts.

Spanjaard i am waiting for mine to arrive so i will be following yours

Kees Kleijwegt Taking a seat for this rocket with wings

Erik Leijdens Me too Arne

arne vd burg Its good to know that i got some watchers Working on the cockpit at the moment , i will post some pictures in the weekend .

Eugen P. Again a red egg

Phenix Very nice paint job. Nice interpretation of W. Späte single flight of the red Me 163b

arne vd burg Thank you Phenix

Stefan Schacht well done

Christian Ristits Great build, looks great!

Christian Lehmann Very nice finish.

Choppa Nutta super sweet !!

Spanjaard i do not know how i did not see this beauty before! excellent

Augie Superb little build

Jens Great build & Very nice finish

JOHN THOMAS Very nice work

Phenix Thanks guys

Tim Heimer Looks awesome!

Spanjaard I am in , of course

Phenix Thanks mate, that build will be very economic as I will build it with leftovers of my others kits already built

Spanjaard I got an idea of what you mean

Phenix Pics of the plane to come very soon

Dave Morris Please visit the associated album for comments, updates & pictures for this project.

P J Superb!

Phenix Thanks

Wim van der Luijt Really cool project! I especially like the painting of both the tail units

Es-haq Khosravi Nice job! Great figures!

Eugen P. Very, very nice

Soeren . Great work!

Phenix Thanks guys

Spanjaard i have no idea how i did not seen this one before.... simply amazing!

Phenix Thanks Spanjaard

Marco Campiglio targeting this 1.32 kit and practicing with some cheap old Komet models from the bay will move from wishlist to wip sometimes this year

Phenix Pictures of the finished model and WIP ( with comments )

Hanno Kleinecke Great work on this tiny "Kraft - Ei " . Just in time and in the right place to be hidden by the Easter - Bunny....

Stefan Schacht nice model

Łukasz Gliński I agree, the result is very neat

Stephan Ryll Very nice build

Gerald Willing

Spanjaard looks very nice. i may have done a bit less chipping, I doubt any Me-163 had many flying hours.... but it looks really good anyway. i have sine Komets in my stash waiting....

Cesar Muniz Spanjaard, what you said make sense, I think I have looked too much museum pictures and there they are very worn because of the handling assembly/ disassembly processes.

Spanjaard i always remember visiting the Me-262 in Hendon, I was told by somebody working there that the 262 was original, but none of the paint was. The Me-109 next to it, had its original paint.... So museum pieces can be deceiving sometimes
the 163 in Gatow museum looks great if you can visit. Too good actually, almost like it got out of the factory the week before . who knows, maybe it is the original paint.....
I have seen pictures of others, and they look like hell. but they were war machines, maybe have not been restored, and were painted about 70 years ago, with know knows what quality of paints...
if you look at more modern aircraft, left outside enough time, the paint starts looking like crap, Gatow outside collection is a good example, some of them are in a pitiful state, i am sure they were not like that when in service

Oyvind Fjeldskaar Kult fly

Camilla Josdal Haha, digger det! Er jo egentlig skikkelig stygg-kult

arne vd burg Taking a seat ( ) enjoy the build!

Ulf Petersen Great model, Paul! Love the detailed engine of this spectacular fighter.

Clifford Keesler I did not know anyone made a 1/32 Me-163.

Germen V @clifford, this kit is very very old, it's somewhere from the end of the 60's beginning 70's, but yes it's the only one i think, this box is a true collectors item

Thomas Mayer MENG also makes a 1/32 scale Me 163! This is the most up-to-date kit.

Thomas Mayer https://www.scalemates.com/kits/209719-meng-model-qs-001-messerschmitt-me-163b-komet

Germen V i knew they announced it, but i didn't thought that they released it already, never saw it pass by inmy friends shop, but apparently yes, so Robin, if you plan on making this model, by the MENG-kit, and keep the Hasegawa aside, the detail is not great, the decals will be 'toast', this is a box for collectors of vintage kits, maybe $$$

Robin Thwaites Thanks for the advice @Germen V, but already into it. I'm not a collector but a builder so I enjoy the old kits too. It's not a rare kit, mine is about 20 years old and the deals are usable but I'll use aftermarket anyway.
I reckon the Hasegawa kit must have been rereleased as its available at local hobby shop and from Lucky Model (I think) for only about US$30. It's still a great kit for the price though I'm sure the Meng kit is awesome but for a lot more $$$

Phenix Be very carefull when you will build that model : the plastic isn't very good and I had issues with Putty ( the Squadron Green ) and cement ( Tamiya ultra thin ) . I finally only used cyanoacrylat glue for gluing and mixed cyanoacrylat glue with talcum as putty .

Wim van der Luijt OK! Thanks for the heads up!

Wim van der Luijt Another nice 163, the overal RLM02 finish looks good to me, I like it a lot

Es-haq Khosravi Great job!

Wim van der Luijt Cool! No pics of the R4M's mounted?

Phenix Thanks, You can barely see them under the wing on picture 3 . But I have to admit I did very few pics of that model
A funny anecdote about the R4M : I spent ages to let them have a decent look and discovered one week later after having finished the model I had very nice ones with Dragon Me 262, and I have some :-D

Es-haq Khosravi Great job!

Choppa Nutta ja das ist uber

Antonio R Thanks Augie happy enough with the final result, Kerber Thanks it required more attention that i initially thought, but I enjoyed the process, Choppa, i don't know what to say because I don't really speak german but yes that Komet is over , thanks

Roberto Rocat Looks very good from here

Cristian Bordina Good job Antonio. I like it very much.

Antonio R Thanks Roberto and Cristian, as I mention above it give me some issues but happy enough with the final result

Choppa Nutta ....... "Yes that is super !! "

I don't really know much German either
but since joining here some of it is coming back to me

Soeren . Awesome work!

Antonio R Choppa Thanks for the comments.
Thanks Soren!!

Soeren . It will be a Me 163 of the JG 400, so a perfect fit for my JG 400 Ho 229, P.1099 and my current build - the EF 128.

Jan Voorbij I hope you'll have as much fun with this little bastard as I did: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 3 (late) | Album by cupofwondering (1:72)

Soeren . I really hope that too!
The camo of your kits looking really great! I really hope that I can make a similar effect on mine, but till now I never did this german camo style