Quick Volksjäger build

Peter Jenssen
Quick build..
Should be done in a couple of nights.. 🙂
(hope I didn't jinx it now... :-o )

Holger Kranich
What a nice and detailed kit!
Real good work, Peter!

Peter Jenssen
Thanks Holger.
I did not do a good job estimating the amount of nose weight needed though.. 🙁
I just put the biggest nut in that would fit and hoped for the best.. 🙂
Turns out the tail section is double the weight this nose weight can cope with..
Creative thinking will be required...

Holger Kranich
Ouch, a tailsitter... What about casting the frontwheel from lead?

Peter Jenssen
Good idea, except I don't have any casting facilities..
I have measured the amount of lead required though, and it looks too much for a nose wheel.
I'm drilling some holes in the nose to feed in some soldering wire, there's also plenty of room behind the cockpit.
This location is half as far away from the mail wheels as the nose, therefore would require double weight compared to if put in the nose.
I'm also thinning the tailplane. It was a bit too thick anyway.. 🙂
The tail part is quite thick goods plastic as well. Some drilling out here might have an effect too.

Choppa Nutta
too late to sand the inside of the rear fuselage ?
anything off the tail helps enormously as you know 🙂

Also some lead in the front half of the engine too, filing the lead first to get lead filings means you can pour it into the nose etc. mix with glue or drop super glue in afterwards, anyhow lead is much denser than soldering wire 🙂

One could also hide a magnet in the front wheel and seat the plane on a steel plate painted like a runway 😄

Another idea is to use a lead figure for the pilot

Peter Jenssen
About 30 cm of soldering lead did the trick.
Managed to chip up and feed about a third of it up the front wheel well, secured with thinned white glue.
The rest went behind the cockpit, fed through the hinge hole for the canopy.. 🙂
Lesson learnt: never estimate needed weight. Always check..

Es-haq Khosravi
Nice job!

Phil Marchese
Huge panel lines!

Peter Jenssen
Yes, panel lines are deep as well as uneven....putty will be needed.To scale some of them would be around 5 centimetres wide and just as deep.
Funny, considering how detailed some parts are.
It's almost like they are out of scale on purpose.

Phil Marchese
Peter, consider stretching some of the kit's own sprue to lay in or wrap around the seems created by the panel lines. this has the advantage of bonding and sanding at the same rate as the surrounding plastic. then minute surfacing can be done with filler.

Peter Jenssen
Had problems stretching the sprue evenly.
Used putty instead.
Well, the paint is on, -I didn't go for the really bright green you see some museums use for their 162's.
After drying, clear coat and decals, then wheels, canopy, shelf..
(next kit, Me163 is in the background)

Peter Jenssen
Pretty much done.
1/72 is really quite small for these little fighters..

Phil Marchese
Turned out well!

Peter Jenssen
Thanks Phil!
Added another picture -compare to a 1/12 Ford Cosworth engine.. 🙂

Mike K
wow! my eyeballs just popped out.

Donald Medley
My eyes also!

Augie
well done !

Peter Jenssen
Yeah, -turned out alright, I'm happy with it anyway.
Thanks guys..

Donald Medley
Let's just say Great Build.