GB-65 1/32 Me262 - No Propellers

[Donivanp]

Agreed. Coming along nicely Don.

Let me know if you need any detail photos or info BTW, got 2 great reference books on the Me 262.

Appreciate the offer. I might poke you but between Squadron Signals walk around and airframes and miniature and the USAF museum site I have three, maybe four different aircraft. I've got all four volumes of the Classic Luftwaffe me 262. More help might just cause me a mental breakdown.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks good Don and from what I remember, lots of detail can be seen inside the wheel bays.

 

[Crimea_River]

Indeed, and those details are well covered in the Squadron Signal Walkaround.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[Donivanp]

Question. The kit calls for the gear well to be olive (RLM02) the photos I see (all museum pieces) look to be silver or I just can't tell. I know the normal color scheme for Luftwaffe aircraft would be 02 for exterior areas but these were end of war era aircraft. To many of the photos are war era b&w so I couldn't tell anyway.

 

[fubar57]

I'd go with 02

One more

 

[Donivanp]

If that, than the gun bays? 02 or silver. Same issue.

 

[A4K]

Off to work now Don, but I'll see if I've got anything tonight. Can say off hand that nose gear legs were definitely painted, and inner fuselage was bare metal, but all fitted equipment panels painted.

 

[Crimea_River]

IMHO, it depends on if you are building an early production 262 or late. 02 would have been featured on early units and was eventually stopped for expedience. I don't know when this transition occurred.

 

[Donivanp]

IMHO, it depends on if you are building an early production 262 or late. 02 would have been featured on early units and was eventually stopped for expedience. I don't know when this transition occurred.

Thanks, looking a the b&w photos are inconclusive and the museum pieces are not always the brought back correct.

 

[A4K]

Checking Sqadron Signal's Me 262
Walk Around, there are many photos of Me 262A-1a W.nr. 500071. She is a late production bird, and comment is made that 'The surfaces between the wing root and the engine nacelles had not been painted (...)' and 'The entire wing interior was not painted, a measure introduced by Messerschmitt GmbH to save precious paint in the closing weeks of World War II'. The main gear legs were however painted, though not in RLM 02, but something darker, possiby RLM 66, so I would assume most, if not all, were atleast partially painted, no matter which stage of production. If I find anything 'conclusive' I will let you know.

As for the gun bays, I believe the rear wall atleast to be natural metal in the few pictures I have. Don't have enough to confirm or deny that for sure though.

 

[Donivanp]

Checking Sqadron Signal's Me 262
Walk Around, there are many photos of Me 262A-1a W.nr. 500071. She is a late production bird, and comment is made that 'The surfaces between the wing root and the engine nacelles had not been painted (...)' and 'The entire wing interior was not painted, a measure intriduced by Messerschmitt GmbH to save precious paint in the closing weeks of World War II'. The main gear legs were however painted, though not in RLM 02, but something darker, possiby RLM 66, so I would assume most, if not all, were atleast partially painted, no matter which stage of production. If I find anything 'conclusive' I will let you know.

As for the gun bays, I believe the rear wall atleast to be natural metal in the few pictures I have. Don't have enough to confirm or deny that for sure though.

Thanks, I've been looking and maybe not reading enough as I was looking at those photos but didn't read the part about the paint. Looking to use the Eagle Cal for double white chevron Galland. Assuming it's a late model bird and it calls for lower fuselage/wings NMF.

 

[Crimea_River]

I'm away from my references and can't look up the WNr for Gallands bird and therefore get a clue of its production time frame. But maybe someone else here has the info.

 

[Donivanp]

States Wkno unknown

 

[A4K]

Good stuff Don. And stupid me didn't check my own stuff properly either. Good shots of 500071's gun bay in that Squadron book shows the whole bay itself in natural metal, as is backed up by 2 photos in Kenneth A Merrick's 'German Aircraft Interiors 1039-45 Vol.1'.One is of noses on the crude production line, guns in situ and already tested(!), another I suspect of 500071 aswell - uncommented.
Again these photos are mostly of 500071, so couldn't say if earlier machines were painted (personally I doubt it, but that is purely my opinion: one photo in Squadron's book shows a bird with what looks like badly applied paint or something on the rear wall). Again, if I find anything to clarify I'll let you know.
Note: while bays are natural metal, the covers all appear to be painted.

 

[Donivanp]

Some more interesting stuff

Notes on the Me 262s of JV 44. Munich, Innsbruck, Salzburg, Hans Ekkehard Bob, Heinz Bär (part 1)

falkeeins.blogspot.com

 

[A4K]

Awesome Don. Will keep that as reference for my own builds.

 

[Airframes]

Don't know if these are any help Don.
It's the example at the RAF Museum, Cosford, and they're normally very keen on accuracy.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Donivanp]

Don't know if these are any help Don.
It's the example at the RAF Museum, Cosford, and they're normally very keen on accuracy.

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That gear looks like about RLM82,