**** DONE: 1/48 Me 262 A1a - Jet/Recon/Transport GB

[tigerdriver]

Got a couple of hours to make some moves on this

Cockpit has been hit with some rlm66, details picked out in black silver and red and popped together. Outer surfaces of the tub and some other bits for the wheel wells done in silver, first time spraying a metallic

Jet nacelles started, with some silver and some home brew for the onions, burnt umber and a few drops of gunmetal to make a burnt iron look

 

[fubar57]

It starts and that is some shiny silver.

Geo

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work so far!

 

[Crimea_River]

Looks great Dave.

 

[woody]

Nice work Dave.

 

[A4K]

Yep, good stuff mate! Like that approach to the Jumo assembly.

 

[Wayne Little]

Good stuff Dave, concur with Andy, insides through the wheel well silver/NMF.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks good Dave.

 

[tigerdriver]

Thanks for all the encouragement guys

Its certainly less bad and thats thanks to all the tips help and encouragement from here

 

[Wayne Little]

I'll be back on mine in a day or two as well!

 

[tigerdriver]

yeah speed up then i can try and use yours as better instructions lol

 

[Airframes]

Looking good so far Dave.

 

[Wurger]

With all.

 

[Wayne Little]

yeah speed up then i can try and use yours as better instructions lol

Yes Sir!

 

[tigerdriver]

so the last couple of evenings i have had a couple of hours a night to put the big bits together
The fit of the nose around the hatches for the cameras is pretty poor, and if the stuff they provided for the internal detail was better I would pose it open, but it looks a bit average in there without some added bits, so I have done my best. the doors arent supported by a lot and the central spar between them is a 3rd bit rather than part of the main moulding

Looks like filling and sanding will be added to my skills lol

the lower wing is one piece and the fit is close but not tamiya

I have checked sanded checked wobbled filled sanded and checked some more

fairly pleased with the results and ( nose lumps aside ) its a very pretty airframe

these shots were taken while i was waiting for some filler to settle, so there is more sanding to come ...

 

[Wurger]

Really some of work ahead you. But doing well Dave.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Worth all the effort though, she'll come up a treat!

 

[Crimea_River]

That's what filling and sanding is all about - doing it over and over til it's right. Good work Dave.

 

[Wayne Little]

Quick work Dave, not too bad at all!

 

[tigerdriver]

think its more bad timing of taking pics and posting, thats a weeks work lol

spent a couple of hours sanding last night

today i have had my first go at making canopy masks myself (its not the hardest canopy ever ) and sprayed a little white where the yellow stripe will go and over some of the more troublesome joins to see how they are looking

more sanding later