Revell 1/72 Messerschmitt Me262B-1/U1 Nightfighter

[Titan]

I enjoyed building this kit as there were no dramas with it, maybe a bit of putty around the wing roots and engine nacelles but that was about it.
Cockpit detail for me was more than adequate but then I am not a super detailer so all I added were the Tamiya tape seat belts.
Make sure you use enough nose weight or else you are going to have a tail sitter, Revell suggests 20gms I used 30 grams of flattened 177 air pistol pellets which seemed about right.
I sprayed the model first with RLM76 then I used a thin brush and some highly thinned RLM 75 to paint the squiggles in a random pattern over the relevent areas of the kit.
Once I was happy with this I then over sprayed the pattern with some very highly thinned RLM 76 over the top, say 20/80 paint to thinners.





 

 

 





Regards
Mark

[Dirkpitt289]

Very very nice. I have had this same kit on hold for the better part of a year now because I lost the radar antennas. I might have to break down and buy another PE set for it just for the antennas. The good thing If I do is that I have several other 262's that I could use the rest of the PE on.

[bernard5802]

Very nice work, Mark

Regards, Bernard

[broadside]

Fantastic work!!

[spitfire31]

Again, an impressive achievment!

With etched Lichtenstein direction finding antennas it would be a masterpiece.

/Joachim

[kruaxi]

Yes, it's true. A very impressive job

[MerlinJones]

That looks great Mark...and it's good to have your distinctive images back on the Forum.

Is that kit of Heller origin, perchance?

Regards,
Bruce

[Dazzled]

I was really surprised to read that you applied the squiggles with a paintbrush. They look airbrushed on. Excellent paintjob.

[Titan]

Thanks Bruce and it's great to be back.
This kit was a new mould for Revell and considering the single seat parts included in the kit I would of thought it's main parts would be shared with the Revell Me262 A-1 kit which would make sense.
Recessed panel lines and a nicely detailed cockpit would easily dismiss the Heller conection I would have thought, but then again I have been wrong about such things before...

Regards
Mark

[peebeep]

It's Revell's own tooling and owes nothing to the Heller kit.

peebeep

[peebeep]

... although it does share the familiar markings of the Heller kit.

Probably down to the fact that there are few well documented schemes to choose from. I think the same one crops up in the Hasegawa kit.

peebeep

[Lyell72planes]

Great looking model. I like the paint and markings. Lyell

[shangos70]

Lovely build Mark , good to have you back . I have one of these tucked away somewhere the paint schemes of late war luftwaffe always puts me off building them tho'

[dknights]

Very nice. I love that scheme.

[hamden]

Hi Titan

Absolutely stunned, it couldn't be any better

Roger