snokri
Airman
Hi folks,
this is my first thread in "ww2Aircraft.net" being a new bee here. Ilive in Saxonia Germany near the town of Dresden.
My first interest is in "As-Ifs" of 1946- in 1:72 scale the" secret weapons" on the drawing. boards of the German aircraft designers. Just for a break I decided to do an airplane which left the drawing board and got into the air. The He 162 is well documented and there is a reasonable kit in 1:32 scale large enough to do some detailing.. Not long ago a restoration project of the He 162 was finished in France which is well documented So my choice fell on this Revell kit
The Revell kit is of acceptable quality at a fair price and leaves ample place for detailing. There are many detailing sets in resin and PE for the Heinkel. But except for some harness buckles I will try to do the missing details by scratching That is I hope so.
But let's start now.
Pilots live insurance: The ejection seat:
Because the seat will be presented outside the airplane I wanted to do it correct. In fact I used only the seat bowl of the kit the rest of the seat is part of the kits bulkhead and was discarded-There were minor corrections to this seat bowl. The handgrip holes have rounded and not square corners as in the kit. The sides are dented not straight the footrests are to short and were replaced by strips and rods and last but not least I grinded out the seatbelts. The rest of the seat specially the release mechanism and the bulkhead are constructed of plastic sheet, strips, rods and soldering wire.
The seat can be slid in the guide rails of the bulkhead.
The backside of the seat with the ejection mechanism:
Seat fixed to the bukhead:
this is my first thread in "ww2Aircraft.net" being a new bee here. Ilive in Saxonia Germany near the town of Dresden.
My first interest is in "As-Ifs" of 1946- in 1:72 scale the" secret weapons" on the drawing. boards of the German aircraft designers. Just for a break I decided to do an airplane which left the drawing board and got into the air. The He 162 is well documented and there is a reasonable kit in 1:32 scale large enough to do some detailing.. Not long ago a restoration project of the He 162 was finished in France which is well documented So my choice fell on this Revell kit
The Revell kit is of acceptable quality at a fair price and leaves ample place for detailing. There are many detailing sets in resin and PE for the Heinkel. But except for some harness buckles I will try to do the missing details by scratching That is I hope so.
But let's start now.
Pilots live insurance: The ejection seat:
Because the seat will be presented outside the airplane I wanted to do it correct. In fact I used only the seat bowl of the kit the rest of the seat is part of the kits bulkhead and was discarded-There were minor corrections to this seat bowl. The handgrip holes have rounded and not square corners as in the kit. The sides are dented not straight the footrests are to short and were replaced by strips and rods and last but not least I grinded out the seatbelts. The rest of the seat specially the release mechanism and the bulkhead are constructed of plastic sheet, strips, rods and soldering wire.
The seat can be slid in the guide rails of the bulkhead.
The backside of the seat with the ejection mechanism:
Seat fixed to the bukhead:
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