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Rafi Ben-Shahar
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Kit Basing Hasegawa and Trumpeter: 1/32 Messerschmitt Me 262B-1a/u1

September 21, 2024 · in Aviation · · 18 · 73

Revell produced a good kit of the 262B. Yet, the definitive 262 kit in the scale requires the combination of 's wings from their excellent 262A kit. The wings are matched with '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.

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  1. 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 👍

  2. Superb kit bashing job, Rafi! Excellent painting and weathering!

  3. Excellent build and finish.

  4. All combined a perfect looking 262, Rafi @blackmopane
    Besides a wonderful exterior, the interior looks really nice as well.

  5. Beautiful work on your kit bashed Me-262. It looks great inside and out.

  6. 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!

  7. Amazing paint job on this - how on earth did you achieve the uniform transparency and size of those rings?!

  8. 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?

  9. 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.

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