Messerschmitt Me 262

Ben M Gotta watch this!

Roland Gunslinger I'm in

Michael Hickey Plenty of room up front fellas, just doing some last minute research. Got the Mistel 262 fuselage and wings together already, looking forward to getting to the painting stage.

Torsten Wendt I'm watching

Michael Hickey Welcome Torsten.

Jim J Pulling up a seat...

Jim J Office complete.

Jay Dubya This model, with the Tempest looks a bit whiffy to me Greg - got something planned?

Greg Baker Heh... good catch. I started plotting out a bit of work for my "Voir et Savoir" collection - which is basically a crossover between my Tintin projects and real world WWII subjects. The Tempest is bound for this project : Tintin: Voir et Savoir 57 - Hawker "Tempest V" | Project by strobez (1:144) - so it is a bit WHIFFY. The Me262 is in the same boat, but I also have the better Trumpeter kit (earmarked for a Leijiverse collection project). However, yesterday I dropped my Hard Drive and killed it, wiping out months of work on a master decal template I was going to get printed. So some of those more intricate projects are on hold.

I still plan to fancy them up small motors for the props, so it should be fun. I just spent a few days retro-fitting all my 1/144 Area 88 builds with micro USB plugins, so I started to get some ideas. I originally wired them all up with USB plugs, but the wires started adding up and causing havoc - taking up shelf space and creating weird balance/stability issues that would see projects go flying off the shelf, dragged down by a USB anchor and chain. Now they all have the best of both worlds. You can plug them in with a USB cord when you want to see them in action, and remove the cords when not needed.

Matthew A My condolences on the death of your hard drive.

Wilfried Bogaerts ? Very bizarre subject, cool paint job!

Tim Vereecke interesting subject!

bossy122 For those of us who don't know, what does that thing on the nose accomplish?

Matthias Simon I wrote it in the album description

The Me 262 V-2 in stage 2 was fitted with fin on its fuselage nose for unknown measurements. It is believed that this was a acoustic test measurement

Matthias Simon Also.... it wasn´t the original Me 262 V-2.. it was a later Me 262 A-1a which was renamed to V-2

Holger Kranich Thats absolutely a superb model and idea!

stefan natus Indeed great idea and model.

Mike Kryza Absolutely top ...

Matthias Simon Thank you for your comments.... in the meantime I made some improvements and added also the wires for the radio transmission aso.
I also use a small "axle-stand" for the tube like it was used originally too.

Lost_Erik Very interesting. Smooth build of the kit!

Lost_Erik Completed as part of Group Build elsewhere https://tapatalk.com/groups/..b-262b-this-one-t508947.html

Jorge Ferreira Very nice.

Dean Armitage Fantastic kit!

Greg Baker what in the world is a canopy plug?

Greg Baker oh... check the link... that's cool. Now all I need is a 3D printer.

Matthew A It's to make a vacform canopy - I know we now all want the experience type of resin bath 3D. I'll be adding links to all of Jumpei Temma's downloads. He was kind enough to send me some F-4K resin parts and vinyl masks he made as a thank you for some info and parts I sent him. His plans are truly amazing.

Nathan Dempsey Added an album as requested. Sorry if the images aren't super clear, all I had was my phone camera.

Sebastian Meyner Following!

Marco Gallmann It looks like the ME is smiling on the project picture I take a seat.

Martin Oostrom Project #225 huh? I have to show this to my wife whenever she's complaining about my modest (by comparison) stash

Philip De Keyser Hy Dirk, Nice looking project, how is the fit and details of the kit?

MoJo Moin Dirk, I´m in

Dirk Heyer I will tell you more if have done more than dry fitting. But it seems the kit fits perfect. I could examine this kit finished on a model expo and the guy told me it was a pleasure to built. The details are really fine. A lot of parts for about 16 to 20 Euro here in Germany.
Highly recommended.

Philip De Keyser Thx for the info Dirk

Dirk Heyer As an apetizer for you:
Youtube Video

Dirk Heyer The guy in the youtube clip is filling all rivets with putty. In my opinion this is absolutely not necessary. They are fine and not really overdone.

Philip De Keyser Nice youtube film, thanks for sharing this with us Dirk

Lost_Erik Updated link https://tapatalk.com/groups/..amp;hilit=Heller+CS#p2537792

Christoph Dehmer Dug out from the 80s Band will do a make-over with changes camouflage Band markings. Just as a test bed.

Rene Scheiblich Made by Dragon Models, imported by Italeri. Upon reading this I remembered Jens' builds... And prepared for some putty and sanding. First fitting tests look very promising
Cockpit is mostly assembled, some wires added and sprayed MRP RLM66
Detail painting about to commence.

Jens viel Spass dabei,der Start hat ja schon mal gute Bilder geliefert etwas Gewicht in die Nase, sonst steht die nicht richtig auf den Rädern wenn Du schauen magst, in meinem Album Me 262 A1a mit R4M Revell | Album by Starterset meine letzte Dragon Me 262, jedoch aus der Revell Box gebaut

Rene Scheiblich Welcome guys!
Updates will be added to the album.

@Jens: jup, die wird ein ordentliches Stück Arbeit werden. Deine ist ja gut geworden Angesichts der massiven Lücken und nicht zueinander passenden Formen ist das Kit eine ziemliche Herausforderung

Yup she'll be a lot of work. Yours turned out nicely, great work considering the huge gaps and badly fitting shapes!