Captured Messerschmitt Me 262A

[BradG]

This is the very nice Tamiya kit used along side the Cutting Edge Crossdressing Stormbirds decal sheet.  Yellow 17 was flown by Lt Hans Dorn of 1/JG7 and was captured at Fassberg by No 616 Squadron RAF in May 1945. I could find very little information on Dorn, I suspect he was a replacement pilot and fairly new to JG 7, seeing little or no action in his time there. As for yellow 17, she was designated AM-52 and ferried back to England for evaluation before being declared surplus and shipped off to Canada. From there, she was sold along with 300 other surplus aircraft and scrapped.

 

As I said the Tamiya kit is a real pleasure to build. Painted with Gunze RLM 82/83/76 with weathering kept pretty light as this machine looked almost brand new when captured, in all likelihood it was. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gigant]

It's nice to see a WWII build not all "uglied-up". 

[LSP_Kevin]

That looks great, Brad!

 

Kev

[LSP_K2]

Whoa, that looks real good, Brad.

[Gerhard]

Loving it!!! Well done. 

[Gazzas]

Very nicely done!