vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
NICE!
**** DONE: 1/48 Me262A-1a KG(J)54 - Jet/Recon/Transport GB
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N4521U
Colonel
That's wild man
Looks great so far Wayne!
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Cheers fellas...
Even though it was mothers Day, slipped in a couple of hours with the airbrush....painted the tail area a whitish version of the RLM76 for the special decal camo on this bird, next up was the standard 76 light Blue/grey for the lower surfaces, carefully covering the putty lines, yet retain some slight hint of them.
This was carried up the sides of the fuselage to a mid point to allow for the blending of the upper colour....
now this was where Plan A or Plan B would take affect depending on the overspray pattern on the putty lines.....well plan A was the light application of some 76 as mentioned then the RLM83 dark green, sticking with this designation for the time being, trying to get the right blending for the green to show the putty lines beneath, but the Green just wasn't going to give the same effect as the 76 over the putty lines on the lower surface....So Plan B...then continued with the light mottling application and the putty lines carefully being gradually obliterated with the green paint and thus building this up to create the same better effect of the darker panel lines beneath the paint, actually looks better and more like I thought it would come out...only had time to do the forward fuselage before time caught up with me and i had to finish up for the day...
Even though it was mothers Day, slipped in a couple of hours with the airbrush....painted the tail area a whitish version of the RLM76 for the special decal camo on this bird, next up was the standard 76 light Blue/grey for the lower surfaces, carefully covering the putty lines, yet retain some slight hint of them.
This was carried up the sides of the fuselage to a mid point to allow for the blending of the upper colour....
now this was where Plan A or Plan B would take affect depending on the overspray pattern on the putty lines.....well plan A was the light application of some 76 as mentioned then the RLM83 dark green, sticking with this designation for the time being, trying to get the right blending for the green to show the putty lines beneath, but the Green just wasn't going to give the same effect as the 76 over the putty lines on the lower surface....So Plan B...then continued with the light mottling application and the putty lines carefully being gradually obliterated with the green paint and thus building this up to create the same better effect of the darker panel lines beneath the paint, actually looks better and more like I thought it would come out...only had time to do the forward fuselage before time caught up with me and i had to finish up for the day...
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now another thing with this Me262 is that it was an early version/production aircraft along with each of the other 20 or so possible aircraft that had the unique tail pattern, which means it most likely didn't have, at that early time, the small teardrop shaped bulge on the Gun Covers. Now study of other aircraft that survived to may '45 with this tail pattern shows that in some pictures the bulges can clearly be seen on the covers, meaning that a number of them that continued operations were most likely upgraded with the improved ejection chutes which stuck out slightly further and therefore required the bulged covers.
So I decided to go with this premise and retain the teardrop blisters rather than remove them.
So I decided to go with this premise and retain the teardrop blisters rather than remove them.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Looking good my man.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Looks excellent Wayne. I really like how that's turning out.
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Thanks very much Vic and Andy, hope I continue to get it right...
A4K
Brigadier General
Looking great Wayne! Great detective work too.
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Cheers evan, thanks man...
tigerdriver
Staff Sergeant
great stuff that finish is gonna look very special i think
T Bolt
Colonel
Excellent work Wayne
looks incredible already Wayne
N4521U
Colonel
That is stunning Wayne.
Only experience could come up with a method to replicate that finish....
Only experience could come up with a method to replicate that finish....
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Thankyou Sir! 
T Bolt
Colonel
Great work so far Wayne!
