Warbird

Thank you all!

Very nice build of a lovely little biplane!

Thank you guys! From an assembly perspective this kit has some challenges in the nose and engine nacelles area. The flaps need some care as well if you want them closed and well aligned. I modified the slats to have them more extended than what is offered out of the box. A few adjustments needed here and there and that's all. For my next project I have a 1/32 Swiss Hunter to complete (I'm halfway) and I started engraving a Monogram 1/48 F-102. The latter will be the first of a "Convair tryptic": F-102, F-106, B-58... Cheers

Hi Guys, Here is my completed Me-262. A not so easy project eventually so I'm happy it's done. This is one of the two Rudolf Sinner's aircrafts with this original camo pattern. I chose to paint it 70/82/76 to match the high color contrast that can be observed on the photos. Wheels are form Barracuda, seat from Quickboost, the rest is straight from the kit. Cheers Tristan

Hi Well, this project has come to an end! More photos to come in RFI soon. Cheers.

Weathering ongoing... Here we can see the advantage of the wet transfers: no carrier film, which makes weathering easier.

Hi, Thousands of photos here, you should find what you need... https://www.flickr.com/photos/28092068@N03/albums

Thanks! The gloss coat is Gunze H30, super shiny if applied generously. It took forever to dry but it's the only way to make sure any silvering is avoided.

Hi guys, Looks like I changed my mind… Although the "base" color shown above looked ok, I wasn't satisfied with the result after having applied the "spots". I just found the plane quite ugly. Well, here is she with her new dress, decals and transfers applied. All markings except the smaller ones are painted.Camo has been painted 70/82 freehand. The 82 looks brighter here than it really is.

Hi, I painted the underside NMF on mine, except for the cowling underside. Looking at other P-47Ds of the 56th (in particular David Schilling's aircraft) helped a lot.

Hi Peter, That is a seriously well worn aircraft! Truly superb! To be nitpicking you might want to blend a bit more the white dot lines on the wings (they look newly applied) and add the undercarriage visual indicator rod on top of the wings (the hole is already there). Cheers

Hi Lud13 Actually this is a bit more complex than that, because these pictures show that there are 3 nose stripes on the starboard nose vs only 2 on the port nose. So if we consider that the 3 nose stripes aircrafts are the same, then it' s a V pattern. But the front stripe doesn't match, hence the 3rd aircraft theory...

Hi, Nice work so far! I have one in 1/32 in the WIP thread and I opted for the same plane, eventually. I'll try to post pictures later if I can fix my camera. I also hesitated with the "V" camo but chose the parallel pattern eventually. I did so because painting a camo in a V pattern would be against a basic rule of camouflage, which is to break the shape of the plane (the "V" pattern rather accentuate it). Personally, I wouldn't have gone neither for a stressed skin effect nor with riveting since ME-262s were (partially) puttied and sanded smooth on the fuselage, engine nacelle and wings. I painted mine rlm82/70/76. The contrast is to high to be 81/82 and 82/70 was an authorised combination.

Hi, Saw these birds a few months ago on Britmodeller. Truly impeccable and seriously impressive builds!

I received mine today. Very good overall impression, the resin exhaust pipes are on the thick side and have their pouring point badly placed and this will need some delicate cleaning, however styrene exhausts are also provided.

Thanks for your comments! After these first steps, I applied a light coat RLM 76 to the engine nacelles and under the fuselage and horizontal stabilisers, leaving the wings NMF. I'll post picture later on since those area are partially masked. Then, RLM 81 was applied in an inconsistant/sloppy manner in order to keep a "see-through" effect that is quite obvious on the pictures.

Hi Vintage Eagle Some masking fluid and a small piece of sponge If I remember well.

Hi Kev, Yes! http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=41874

The "putty work" is done, it will acts as some sort of pre-shading, except for surfaces that will remain naked. @VintageEagle: The rivets are from the box, except for the ones I had to "repair", using a thick needle.

Lycoming it is indeed.

Thank for the review, I also ordered this kit a few days ago. At last something I fly in my favorite scale! :-) [/url]

After the overall coat of AS-12, the forward section was painted in Alclad steel, simply because this section was indeed made of steel. Also, some underside panels have been painted with Alclad dark aluminium. I have now started to roughly apply dark grey over panel lines and rivets, following the pattern seen on the Me-262 111711. A lighter grey will be used over the steel section.

Hi Robert, I'll follow your thread for sure. Tristan

Thanks for your comments! I found some time to apply a coat of grey primer (mostly straight from the can), I then had to make corrections here and there, and then a solid coat of AS-12.The slats have been modified and will be glued later on to avoid breaking them. Regarding the camo colors, I'm leaning toward an overall RLM81 upper surface with RLM 76 (probably blue green variation) spots. The pictures below show that the spots color is closed to the underside color and that the base color looks pretty uniform in terms of shade. RLM 76 underside except for wings,left bare metal (this is a guess as I couldn't find a picture of this area).

Salut Hubert! This aircraft has 3D thrust vector engines.