Kit Basing Hasegawa and Trumpeter: 1/32 Messerschmitt Me 262B-1a/u1
Revell produced a good 1/32 kit of the 262B. Yet, the definitive 262 kit in the scale requires the combination of Trumpeter's wings from their excellent 262A kit. The wings are matched with Hasegawa's old 262B kit that has the correctly shaped fuselage with accurate dimensions of cockpit and canopy in particular. Trumpeter's 1/32 262B kit has wrong spine shape and a bubbly canopy. Unfortunately, the erroneous shape was copied to HobbyBoss' 262B variants as well.
That's a super build Rafi. It's great that we have modellers who know their onions. I have the Trumpeter version of this 1/32 night fighter 3/4 built but would never have known of the inaccuracy that you have mentioned. When I get round to completing it I will just have to live with it but hopefully it will look something as good as yours Rafi 👍
You're in luck (as are the rest of us) since only Rafi knows this, so we can enjoy the models in ignorance of how terrible/awful/wrong they are. 🙂
Like it Tom 😊 I can say in confidence like Manuel in the British sit com Faulty Towers
" I know nothing "
Thank you Guy.
Keeping the canopy open helps to ignore the faulty design.
Superb kit bashing job, Rafi! Excellent painting and weathering!
Thank you Spiros!
Excellent build and finish.
Thank you Chas.
All combined a perfect looking 262, Rafi @blackmopane
Besides a wonderful exterior, the interior looks really nice as well.
Thank you John!
Beautiful work on your kit bashed Me-262. It looks great inside and out.
Thank you Bob!
If that is a Hasegawa fuselage, you must have run all of those rivet rows with double and a single rivet wheels. They are subtle but spectacular in effect. This is a great build!
Thank you Russell.
I did some riveting work on the fuselage to make it comparable with the Trumpeter wing.
Amazing paint job on this - how on earth did you achieve the uniform transparency and size of those rings?!
Thank you Greg!
Practice makes perfect, especially on larger scale models.
Awesome work Rafi. Have you done the Revell 262B? I thought that the Trumpeter 262B was supposed to be definitive, where else did they go wrong?
Thank you Ian.
I had a post of Revell's 262B
The rest of the fuselage is fine although the wrongly shaped spine makes it obsolete.