Messerschmitt Me262-SMA 2014

Quaralane

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All right, next up for the BSC is one I actually shot the first video for before deciding to work on the Heartbreaker instead.
It's the Revell 1/48 Messerschmitt Me262-A1a.
Not sure about the boxing date, but the imprints on the kit itself date the molds at 1978.

Required proof of start pic
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Started out by painting in parts of the fuselage and cockpit with a medium grey
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Assembled the cockpit and painted it up in the same grey.
Painted the seat in a very light brown, followed by a black wash for detail.
Instrument panel was decalled
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Cemented the fuselage halves together
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I inserted the nosegear well into the nose, then added some fishing weights to aid balancing on the onsewheel later
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Machine gun bay was assembled stock.
I painted the interior pieces grey with a couple of black highlights.
The guns were done with black, then drybrushed silver
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That assembly was inserted into the nose of the plane.
Using a needle file, I opened up the gun openings in the cowling.
I also opted to keep one side of the gunbay open by cutting mostly through the door piece to allow it to be bent
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The port engine nacelle was entirely closed in, while the starboard one allowed it to be open for display.
On this side, I again cut the door opening to allow it to be opened.
The engine itself was painted with black, and then drybrushed silver and mounted onto the wing
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I glued the engines to the wings, and then glued the wings to the fuselage.
Surprisingly, there weren't any huge seam issues.
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The last bit done was adding the tailwings and rudders
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Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLa88PR4PAg
 
Thanks for the comments, guys.
Definitely a couple of different things here for me
 
Very cool Q. The idea of a liberated aircraft here is brilliant. Any hints about the paint scheme?
 
Okay, update time on this.

Glued the front and rear canopies into place, then tacked down the center canopy with Micro Krystal Clear.
With the canopies in place, I masked them off with electrical tape.
I then closed up the hatches for painting
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I gave the whole model a base coat of the same Tamiya blue-grey that I used inside the cockpit and wheel wells
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With some black paint loaded into my airbrush and made an attempt at pre-shading
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I then re-sprayed the model in the blue-grey
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The bottom, I left as it was, then decided to do a different style of camouflage.
I used a Vallejo Real Blue, and a mix of Vallejo light ghost grey primer and a light blue to free-hand kind of a "ocean camouflage"
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Landing gear was assembled and moved into place.
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And we now have her standing on her landing gear
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Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1Z2rBCn8Jc
 
Nice work so far the 262 is by far my fave WW2 wingy keep up the awesome work

Dan B
 
Okay, after finishing off the camo, I put a couple of light coats of sealer on the bird.
That dry, I decalled her with a mix of kit markings, some markings from other kits, and some custom US markings.
With those sealed, I went on to do some weathering with a combination of drybrushing Vallejo smoke, and black washes to get the final look.
I cemented the canopy in open position, and left the cockpit empty.

Finished build pics:
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Youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxo8XVgPhxY
 
Nice one mate, really love the result, sure is an original version to see of the 262

Cheers
 

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