I found some real good pics of a He 162 which was restored in France recently. The pics show the plane with its tail separated. I wanted to display my plane in the same way.
The elevators and rudders should be bended. All were cut out, padded with strips, sanded filled with putty, sanded again and so on. The fins got grooves after being padded with strips too. This was a lot of work to do I was glad when it was finished.
The finished parts:
The visible front side of the separate tail cone was detailed after the French pics. Again I used plastic sheet and assorted strips. Especially the bulkhead and the mechanism of the trimming device were done.
After checking the correct fit I thinned the trailing edges on upper and lower wing.
Flaps and ailerons got the same treatment as fins, rudder and elevators. Filling with strip and putty, sanding, more putty and so on. The ailerons are fixed with metal rod.
The completed parts are primed. They will be painted in camouflage colors together with the rest of the plane
Wings and fuselage end:
When I did the wings I found some puzzles in the Revell parts.
First I cut out the flaps and ailerons and discovered some measurement discrepancies between the upper and lower sides of the wings. I consulted some drawings and there it was. The flaps were mounted in an oval groove in the wings so that the upper edge reaches further back than the lower one. This is correct for the flaps but not for the ailerons as Revell did. Again plastic sheet saved the day.
After checking the correct fit I thinned the trailing edges on upper and lower wing.
Flaps and ailerons got the same treatment as fins, rudder and elevators. Filling with strip and putty, sanding, more putty and so on. The ailerons are fixed with metal rod.
The pushing rods of the ailerons are made out of plastic profiles:
The oval bracing plates of the wings had to be corrected too. Because their shape is false. There is evidence of angular ones in literature but I decided to follow the ones of the French restoration project. I erased the kit plates and built new parts out of plastic sheet.
After cementing the fuselage halves together after puttying and sanding I could detail the visible part of the fuselage end.
The upper part is too short and had to be elongated. The holes for the bolts to fix the empennage have to be drilled out yet.
The visible part of the rear bulk head detailed with strip:
The connecting rods for the empennage are only provisional fixed for the picture. This are the counterparts of the empennage.