Cracker of a kit indeed. Nice progress in such a short period of time. I have built the Monogram, Dragon and the Tamiya kits of this plane and hands down the Tamiya is by far the best and most enjoyable to build. Yours is looking good, what scheme are you going to do?

I did my Tamiya one as one of the test bed aircraft. https://imodeler.com/2012/12/148th-tamiya-me-262/

You did all of this in just a couple of hours, I'm impressed Darren.
The interior looks perfect.

Updated with painting - simple scheme as will be a JV44 262 and quite a few were painted in RLM83 overall on topsides. I since found a pic of "White 22" which shows the starboard side of rudder was a different colour (RLM76?) so I have since repainted that...gloss coating now for decals later this week.

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Beautiful paintwork Darren, @darren-d
Nice panel shading.

Great work, Darren. That's a really nice cockpit and outstanding airbrush skill on the mottled green topsides.

Nice progress and nice result, Darren.
Almost ready to cross the finish line!

Darren, @darren-d
These Tamiya 262's go together very nicely. I have built one several years ago in an overall early RLM 76 scheme. These jets are my favorite from the early jet era... so I sincerely appreciate your efforts to share yours with us here.

You're tempting me to finish the one I started a build journal for several years ago, but never cut the first bit of plastic on... It was the unpainted plane that had a Werke Nummer that ended in 711. I have a bunch of pictures of it that were taken of it after it was captured by the Allies and flown over Ohio in the USA. Sadly it suffered an engine failure and crashed after only flying a short number of hours. This picture of the actual aircraft was provided some time ago by our dear friend David Leigh Smith as part of his "On this Day" series.

Yours is looking great as is. There are SO many ways you can paint a 262...I look forward to seeing it again soon as you cross the finish line.