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For a "terrible kit", it doesn't look like it turned out TOO bad.
Looks fine!
Looks good to me, I attempted to convert the ancient Airfix offereing to one of these,nice work.
Very impressive - talent overcame adversity.
Looks pretty good, what's so terrible about it?
The kit is all flash , you'll spending more time trying to find the piece and than cleaning it than actually building it. The instructions is a joke. It comes with parts to make any of the 3 prototypes, but it is up to you to find out which part is for which version. The plastic is so weird, I was trying to re-scribe some panel lines lost during the building and than the plastic started to flake off. At the end I needed to find a compromise where to fix the lines or not. You can note this in the wings close to the ailerons.
This kit I "won" in our club Christmas Kris Kringle, we call it build a b***h. The idea is to wrap up your least loved kit (the b***h) and put in on the table. Than everyone will pick a kit (randomly) and you have two months (our first meeting of the year is held in February) to bring that kit built, after a people's choice, the modeller winner will be exempt to pay the club annual fee as a reward. This kit I got it in Christmas 2014 and after starting it was left in the shelf of doom until I picked it up again late last year to finish it. That's the story!
Cheers
Great job, Pedro ! I like what you have done here. The camo is wonderful.
These prototype 262s without the nose wheel always look very odd to me - probably because I saw the production version first. The story behind the change from "tail dragger" to tricycle configuration is very interesting. Well done, Amigo !
Have to agree, talent overcome adversity. Paulo you’ve made a fine model of rarely seen version of the 262; and even more rare kit. Thanks for sharing
I love a Schwalbe (assuming, correctly, I think, that the bird you built is a fighter version). This is great to see, Paulo. I have the Trumpeter 1/32 that I HAVE to build. someday...
Thanks all for the kind words.
I have always wondered why we see so many Tamyia Mustangs and so few High-Planes 262-prototypes, here I finally have the explanation 🙂 !
Jokes aside, I came close to finishing mine but lost my patience and scrapped it when the decals failed: Link to my build on Aeroscale
Regards
Magnus