1/48 Me 262 DML WIP & Gallery

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Hello

Many years ago I sarted building my favourite WWII plane - Me 262. It was a time that the only available kit in 1/48 scale was from DML. I added for it gun bay from aires, engines from CMK and some scratched details. It was started, and never finished. Somethimg about one year ago I’ve finished building of this model

…so it was ready to paint

…and I started painwork

… but after one year and after some other aircraft I’ve finished I changen my coice of painting scheme:

and I’ve started paintwork again.
At first coat of silver paint

preshadeing

…and colors

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all decals and markings are aplliead and painted

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Looks great as usual Kamil, the details really make it come alive. It looks as though the pic of the modeled craft has a “brownish green” scheme, yet your craft is all green, or is it otherwise?

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I’m not enough familiar with RLM palette to discuss with colors offered by Gunze. I just paint rlm 81 horizontal stripes over rlm 82 and and 71 meandres. rlm 76 for the base.

also note the RVD band- colours are reversed- i deceided to paint it folow the interpretation of archive picture by David E. Brown

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ready for wash

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Modeling has sure come a long way since I built a Lindberg ME-262 back in 1967. Beautiful job.

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Great looking bird… Thanks for sharing!

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I like your style, I like your moves…

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Yes, I noticed the nose was blue on your model w/red/blu band vs opposite on the example w/red nose. I guess i was unaware (a show of my ignorance[:$]) of the Reichsverteidigung RVD or RVT bands and their importance. So does the nose represent a “band” per se? On my work computer monitor, I see more of the RLM 81 coming through. Again, it looks fantastic and thanks for sharing.

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as far as I know there there is no clear explanation about colors of the nose. sometimes they are a part of RVD markings, sometimes it was painted in a colour of unit. you can find unpainted noses too

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After wash I’ve mount all details and varnished it with satin clear

now it’s time for some weathering

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finished!

for your consideration, “Green 3” of Stab.1/JG7, pilot: Hptm. Erich Mikat, Geschwader Adjutant

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I love watching how you paint these birds, very impressive stuff! The streaked camo on the fuselage is especially well done. However, the landing gear looks to be canted inwards, any way to fix that?

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Actually Daywalker is right though I believe only the Starboard main gear is actually canted inward. The port side looks fine to me though.

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thank you

i noticed that problem wit gear just on the pictures, now it is fixed

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Very nice paint job.

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Stunning work…

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HA! I built that Lindberg kit too, I’m guessing '85 or '86. I finished it in the striking “Testors glass-bottle green” pattern that I was known for back in the day - good times!!

Kamil, the -262 is one of my all-time favourites, and yours is fabulous, thanks for sharing with us.