Yuk! Got to wipe all that drool off the screen now!
Might throw in something different, which I've been wanting to do for some time now. depends on other commitments though, so we'll see ........
Just been checking out the Me 262A-1a which is sold as a Nachtjäger. So far I have been unable to find a 262A-1a as a Nachtjäger and from my reading the true Nachtjäger's were initially modified 262A-1a's re designated 262B-1a/U with the fuselage being extended in front and behind the cockpit and the cockpit itself extended to seat two aircrew. This kit is all Me 262A-1a with original dimensions and cockpit. I could be wrong about my findings though and would welcome any input to correct me.
Luckily as a fallback I do have a second Dragon Me 262 as flown by Heinz Bär with EjG.2 (that would be in a Jan 13) or as a machine flown by JG.7.
As far as I understand it the fuselage was not extended but modified in the rear to accept the additional cockpit.....sure I have something on this will check...
As far as I understand it the fuselage was not extended but modified in the rear to accept the additional cockpit.....sure I have something on this will check...
I agree with Wayne. The B's were built off of the A airframes with no extension, just modifications to the fuel tank arrangements and sheet metal to accomodate the second seat.
I came across more info late last night and can surmise that the Dragon Me 262A-1a Nachtjäger is the single seat aircraft taken by Fritz Wendel and fitted with a Lichtenstein S.N.2 radar array on the nose cone. The success of these trials were encouraging and 3 Me 262B-1a airframes were fitted with the FuG 218 Neptun V radar and other H2S emission tracing radar. These 3 airframes were redesignated Me 262B-1a/U1 with the upper cannon removed and the lower cannon replaced by the long barreled MG151 20mm cannon. Further reserach revealed that it was the Me 262B-2a Nachtjäger that was to have an extended airframe before and aft of the cockpit, this was under development but was too late to go into full production.
So armed with that information, it's back to the original idea of the Dragon kit Me 262A-1a Nachtjäger. Soooooo Jan, your sacred Number 13 is safe for the time being.
S'okay mate and you would not believe what I came up with in today's investigations on this particular airframe, something possibly quite unique and an interesting subject for the GB.
So far I only know that I'll try to do two JG301 birds, one Dora-9 and one '109G-10, hopefully both 13's.....just trying to find a '109 to use as a model....
Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 with Ta 152-type tail (Braunen 4, W.nr. 500647) as abandoned at Hustedt;
Messerschmitt Me 323E-2 (conversion of Italeri Me 323D); and/or
Messerschmitt P.1101, as found at time of capture.
Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 with Ta 152-type tail (Braunen 4, W.nr. 500647) as abandoned at Hustedt;
Messerschmitt Me 323E-2 (conversion of Italeri Me 323D); and/or
Messerschmitt P.1101, as found at time of capture.