Tamiya 1/48 Me-262 "White 3" Completed-07/08

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I can’t remember the last time I started an aircraft it…what’s it been?..5 years??? I just haven’t felt comfortable with my military painting and weathering skills until I wrapped my Arado 234 up late last year after that sat around for YEARS. Being in the automotive modeling realm over the last half decade and watching countless military painting videos as well as watching others on the forums has really given me the opportunity to hone my painting skills. So with all that being said…I guess it’s high time that I broke out with an aircraft kit.

We’ll be going with Tamiya’s 1/48 Me-262 offering. Here’s what’s in the arsenal so far:

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You know I’ll be watching.

Looking forward to it, Joe.

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Yes! I’ll follow as this one is on my wish list.

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Yes I know that feeling . I’m going though that with airliners lol. That’s a great kit ,I built one about 5 years ago.

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Have fun. Good kit. When i re-entered the hobby back in 199x, i took it out on a Tamiya fw190D-9 :slight_smile:

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You should make a vac form!Tons of fun!

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Should be a good build for you my friend. Glad to see the aircraft bug getting to you again.

Joe

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Starting back out with a 262 and German camo. Well now, that should test your nerves. Looking forward to watching it come together.

BK

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Thanks for the comments everyone. After that last debacle with the Maverick…it’s been nice to take a couple of weeks off from building. I mean… I DID have alot of fun with that car but it left me scratching my head lots of times trying to figure out the next moves with it. Building an aircraft again is gonna be a change of pace for me but one that I’ve been looking forward to for a while now.

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Ok gang…got the fuselage halves cut from the sprues so now it’s clean up and test fitting of the resin parts into the fuselage.

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don’t forget to test fit big block and headers

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I put this one together for the secret Santa build last year and loved every minute of it! It’s such a great kit.

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Man I haven’t seen you around in a LONG time Joe. Thanks for droppin’ in. Lookin’ forward to watching another one of your builds as well.

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Gotta get the nitrous going too. lol

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I’ve been working on this aircraft all friggin’ week now. I’ve been busy getting rid of the interior detail/ ribbing from inside of the fuselage in order to fit the AM resin pieces in there. After accomplishing that and test fitting it’s looking pretty good from about every angle so far.

Details removed:

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The interior tub, landing gear bay side panels, and rear wall of the bay seem to fit well:

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I test fitted the original rear wall in place to see how high it sat above the fuselage to ensure a proper wing to fuselage fit. Here’s the OOB height.

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and the height with the AM Aires resin piece fitted into place. Looks good from here:

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So…I tried my luck with the wing test fit. I think I’m good with this:

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Holy cow that’s a lot of work. She’s gonna look beautiful though when she’s all painted up.

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Be fun seeing what you do painting the resin. Never done it myself (except for a seat once). Pretty much baffled by the painting process.

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Thanks Chad and Greg!!

Resin isn’t hard to paint up at all Greg. Pretty much the same as plastic.

Alright folks. This aint a whole lot but this here is around 3 cumulative hours of work this week. One wall of the landing gear bay is finished. Now for the other wall…

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That’s some fine surgery .

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That gear bay detail came out great.

Even more impressive when I realized it was 1/48 and not 1/32