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Trez
Not a bad kit for age. Mods; Wheel well cut out, detail added / nose wheel well and doors detailed / single canopy cut to three parts - grab handle head rest detail on inner frame / whip antenna added / antenna wire / cockpit detailed - bullet proof glass - AM belts - map case - boxes - sight post and sight - twisted out of view for taxiing - wires - throttle quadrant / wing flaps deflected

gorby
Nice work.

Trez
Thanks gorby - this is one of my test beds. Hopefully next year I can build and display

Tony May
This is a nice & colorful Me-262! Bravo!

I NEED to pick up an Academy kit to go with my own Pro-Modeler kit. A gent in France did me a favor by picking up a set of ABT Decals over at Modelers Heaven, that supposedly depicted a Me-262 in Adolf Galland's markings, complete with his customary Mickey Mouse on the side but in a white circle. He mailed it to me from France rather than my having to spend some ungodly amount for UPS shipping from Modelers Heaven.

Apparently, this aircraft was described in an article published in Summer of 1977, though it is most likely spurious. I'll pair it with some aftermarket wheels & PART PE. The Academy kit I'd like to do as White 3 of JV44, which Gen. Lt. Galland was confirmed to have flown. Since I've also got the IBG Fw-190D-9 & Fw-190D-11 to build for their airstrip guard unit; They'll make for an interesting quartet!

Trez
I think it would be better if you build more and buy less! I thought my stash was unwieldy! 🫨😬

Tony May
Haha! I just group my kits together as "projects" rather than collections. I keep the "collections" as conflicts those aircraft were involved in. I will admit that my building has slowed down since 2023 & I'm getting a backlog of models that are set & ready to go. That said I only have an hour or two in the mid-AM & about the same in the early AM if I don't mind being exhausted all day.

The reason ... I guess could be summarized as this; I'm a coward. My son was blinded by C19 last year. He was turning out to be as prolific of a builder than I was at his age & yet he went to bed early evening on February 13th with 20/20 vision (though red/green color blind) & awoke late afternoon on Valentine's Day unable to see anything. This wasn't like what a lot of young folk reported though, temporary blindness that passed in a couple weeks, this was swelling in his eyes that starved both his retina of oxygen. He did eventually gain some vision back but it's still really bad. His vision is bad enough to be considered legally blind twice over. It is as though he suffers from an advanced case of macular degeneration. It's a rare enough side effect that one of the leading medical research facilities in the United States wants to do a case study on him.

I'm sure you wonder what that has to do with my building & being a coward, well, it's like this: I build when he's asleep. He hasn't asked to build together since that fateful day in February of 2023 & honestly I'm afraid to ask him to join me as well. He insists that he hasn't given up on building but he cannot even read large print text let alone an instruction sheet. The other day he signed something at our bank & missed the signature line entirely. Your average 1/72 kit has parts smaller than the words "Sign Here:" I'm afraid of the look & what will go through his mind when he finally realizes he can't build in this scale anymore & likely won't be able to build his newer & more advanced 1/35 scale AFVs either.

I COULD build them for him the way my father did for me when I was still in early elementary school but I know it's nowhere near the same. Furthermore my builds were kept completely separate from his. That means there are many duplicates & a wide assortment of outdated kits which were originally passed from me to him.

Anyway, I've got several projects or portions of projects that I have been working on OR have waiting in the wings. Unfortunately I cannot prove this to anyone until my sister decides to make the journey from her home four hours to the South-East up to my home. Our household is cellular free & the camera resolution quality on the two Chromebooks in the house are inferior to the old cardboard & plastic 35 mm cameras. :lol: