Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe
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First headline post after a short hiatus from modeling. Earlier this year I read about Flying Heritage Collection's Me-262 restoration that will be flying soon with the original style (but not completely original as the guts have been [...]
For something different, I thought I'd post a collection of German fighters I built quite a few years ago. These were all built before I did anything other than just finishing them out of the box, slapping on some paint, and putting on a [...]
On April 25, 1945 lands Oberfähnrich Guido Mutke with the Messerschmitt 262 in Dübendorf.
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This is my Me-262A-1 Revell kit in 1/72 scale, nose and CMK engines, flaps and slats were made from scratch.
I wasn't particularly happy with the Tamiya Me-262 kits when they came out 12 years ago. Tamiya managed to drop the slats and drop the flaps on their Bf-109E, but they couldn't do it on their Me-262? To this day, the Monogram kit is [...]
The HB 262s are the best compromise at the moment. Outline wise it still is the old Monogram leading the charts. It is a greater effort to close all the mad riveter holes than to create "rivet replicas". What I don´t like with [...]
Did this one a while ago - pretty much OOB, with Eduard seatbelts, and some added antenna wires and brake lines. Decals are from EagleStrike. Paints are Gunze Aqueous and Tamiya. Like any of the newer Tamiya kits, it was a pleasure to [...]
Here is a kit that has languished half built for about 6 years or so. I finally put a push on completing it early this year and while completed a month ago, I didn't have time to try and post it until now.
It is what you find in the kit [...]
Due to a statement made by William Green in his 1959 "Famous Fighters of the Second World War, Vol. 1" about the Me-262B night fighter conversion "shooting down" British bombers over Berlin in April 1945, it has long [...]
Much has been written about the Me 262, and almost as much has been written about Trumpeter Models! Just about evrything I've read about the Big T's Me 262 have been positive, and after having built this kit I'll add my praise to the [...]