Scalemates Schwalbe Group build 2021

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January 5, 2021
I always found that bare appearance very interesting. I will go for this one,....
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January 5, 2021
The Revell Kit 4119 Me 262 A-1a is the "choosen one".
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January 5, 2021
.....it's content.
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January 5, 2021
Let's have a look into the Cockpit before we start assembly work.....RH side
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January 5, 2021
....and here the left hand area.
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January 7, 2021
So the very first parts are waiting to get processed... 😉
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January 7, 2021
Dashboard done....
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January 7, 2021
...and built into the cockpit. Further, I used some spare PE seatbelts.
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January 10, 2021
I am opening the bays (glare covers) for the machine guns.
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January 10, 2021
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January 10, 2021
Checking for the alignement of the MG fire lines,....
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January 10, 2021
Ok - now let's check whats going on at the main landing gear bay,.....
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January 10, 2021
...ok....
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January 10, 2021
....so far so good.
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January 13, 2021
Opening the wheel bay, that is closed which this kit from Revell....
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January 13, 2021
...done.
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January 13, 2021
adding some styrene stripes to simulate...
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January 13, 2021
...some stringers and stiffeners in the wheel bin housing.
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January 13, 2021
Added some holes nad notches to pass through some wires, hoses & pipes -plus sprayed the inner space.
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January 13, 2021
More details and colour added....
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January 13, 2021
Finished - Ready to get covered by the wheel bins.
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January 26, 2021
Finished the Landing gear and Wheel bin detailing - need to start my airbrush now.
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January 27, 2021
A pic of the canopy. There where some requests on the quality respectively the fit.
To me this looks quite good.
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January 30, 2021
Detailing and painting of landing gear finished.
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January 30, 2021
Added some brass tubes to simulate MG barrels & some transparent sprue for the cover of the BSK16 camera system.
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January 30, 2021
I guess this extra effort will hardly be notice in this 72 scale - but....now it's there. 🙂
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January 30, 2021
Some of those lead ball will become a new home in the nose section.
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January 30, 2021
Nose & underwing attached.
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January 30, 2021
The 2 nacelles from the revell kit vs. my resin engine. The resin kit from Quickboost is slightly smaller (diameter and lenght).
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January 30, 2021
I decided that the new opened engine could maybe need some cover panels (in a diorama scene). So I used the spare RH nacelle to cut out such pieces.
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January 30, 2021
The pretty thick panels need some sanding to get rather reasonable thickness dimensions.
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January 30, 2021
The counterpart of the support frame need to be scratched out of styrene sheet.
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January 30, 2021
Done. Ready for paint.
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January 30, 2021
Drilling the cutouts of the support frame.
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January 30, 2021
Adding some tubes and wires as seen on picture references of Jumo004.
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January 30, 2021
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January 30, 2021
Engine waiting to be fixed to the wing.
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January 31, 2021
Making 3 out of one,....I will display an opened canopy.
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January 31, 2021
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February 7, 2021
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February 7, 2021
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February 7, 2021
My new RH Pos.Light
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February 7, 2021
My reference for detailing the canopy/cockpit area.
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February 7, 2021
Some detailing in the canopy/cockpit area
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February 7, 2021
The opened canopy is held in place with a lanyard.
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February 7, 2021
Therefore I used some material I normaly use for riging bi-planes...
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February 7, 2021
I build-in the handle that is used to lock the closed canopy.
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February 7, 2021
Cockpit and lights done.
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February 20, 2021
Now I add some colour to the outside Canopy-frames.
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February 20, 2021
The paintjob is visible on the movable middle section of the cockpit glass. The rest is already covered and prepared for the next painting step.
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February 20, 2021
I have fitted the engines now and also prepared them with a nice wrapping for a save paint application.
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February 20, 2021
The back of the resin engine was in bad condition - I had to remove it, in order to fit it to the wing. The missing fairing was made with liquide sprue and a lot of sanding - it is light grey now.
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February 20, 2021
The fit in the front section was better - still needed some putty to get a smooth transition to the upper wing panels.
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February 20, 2021
As painting is coming closer I decided to do some paint trials. AlClad in shades/and variations.....Putty is a greenish gray - pretty much looking like the stuff used nowadays. Not sure if the colour was the same once. Colour picture of the "putty camo" are quite rare.
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February 20, 2021
The result is pretty promising - at least for my expectations,....I guess that's the way I will do it.
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February 27, 2021
Started to fill the later non visible panel lines with Mr. Surfacer 1000.
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February 27, 2021
Filling completed.
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February 27, 2021
Gloss black base coat applied,....
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February 27, 2021
Gloss black base coat applied,....
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March 7, 2021
The bird masked and ready for first metal coat. During this exercise - which took some hours - I got into a state of...well, I don't know...am I nuts doing this?
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March 7, 2021
First coat applied - dull aluminium.
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March 7, 2021
De-masked, and...
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March 7, 2021
..re-masked, and...
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March 7, 2021
...de-masked. Okay - endurance in this masking sessions paid off - it looks quite nice.
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March 7, 2021
The colours I used are dull and dark aluminium from Alcad.
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March 7, 2021
Bottom view.
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March 10, 2021
"Faying surface sealant" applied now. Hope I got them all close to the original - had some picture references, but might have missed the one or the other panel line (especially on the upper wing panels, I fear).
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March 10, 2021
Now I have to apply a clear coat to make the bird ready for decals and decent weathering. Some effects on the metall sheet appearance (reduced uniformity) I have already applied.
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March 14, 2021
All decals applied now,...
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March 14, 2021
...and some "weathering" applied too. I think it is a bit overdone - but flat varnish is already done too.
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March 14, 2021
Decals are put together from spare material,...concerning the appearance, I tried to keep close to the picture references I had,...
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March 14, 2021
...so therefore some panels show "section" numbers and others had some "text" written on them.
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March 20, 2021
Finally I can anounce: DONE
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March 20, 2021
Closer look at the engine & front section
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March 20, 2021
Closer look at the cockpit
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March 20, 2021
I did some adjustments on the appearance of the insignia. As the whole aircraft turned out quite dark and flat - so I put an semigloss layer on all the black areas. Luckely they emerged from the "mist" giving more contrast to the appearance.
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March 20, 2021
LH view
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March 20, 2021
Details of the tail section - light condition is a big contributor on the way we recogince colours - the putty in dayligh is greenish gray. On the pictures here with my artificial lights it shows more green....
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March 20, 2021
Right hand rear view
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March 20, 2021
Nacelle covers and open engine

Opmerkingen

74 4 January 2021, 12:59

Jan Peters
Nice choice of subject, looking forward to see you do the bare metal finish

5 January 2021, 12:57

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
I'm in too

10 January 2021, 16:26

Daniel Klink
That looks promising.. Iam in 👍

10 January 2021, 16:34

Juergen Klinglhuber
Hello to all....& thx you for your interest

10 January 2021, 18:22

Juergen Klinglhuber
thx spanjaard.
A real fun to build....

13 January 2021, 22:10

Jan Peters
Great looking interiour

14 January 2021, 05:13

Spanjaard
it certainly looks amazing.

14 January 2021, 13:22

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thank you Jan & Spanjaard. Can't wait to continue - had to take care on other stuff this weekend 🙁

16 January 2021, 20:24

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hard to believe that this is supposed to be a 72 scale! awesome!

17 January 2021, 09:04

Jan Peters
Nice and clean work

17 January 2021, 09:13

Guy Rump
Very impressive so far, following. 🙂

17 January 2021, 09:16

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thanks Roland, Jan & Guy for your appreciation. That's motivating.
I did some work on the landing gear hydraulic and the nose section (thx Spanjaard for your infos) last night - pictures will follow soon.

17 January 2021, 13:45

Daniel Klink
Superb job Jürgen... 👍

17 January 2021, 13:48

Łukasz Gliński
Joining 👍 I have considered the same "camo", but maybe next time...

17 January 2021, 15:45

Łukasz Gliński
Found this today, thinking of the putty colour too...
Youtube Video

20 January 2021, 19:33

Jan Peters
Great video, very inspirational

21 January 2021, 16:05

Juergen Klinglhuber
Lukasz - thx for sharing.
So we can start a group build of Schwalbe "putty camo" within the existing Schwalbe Group build ! 😉 what to you think? - who's joining? 😉
cheers

21 January 2021, 20:35

Łukasz Gliński
The only obstacle I see are the black outline crosses - browsing the stash since yesterday to find some...

21 January 2021, 20:37

Juergen Klinglhuber
Today I received the engine and a sheet where only black and white Luftwaffe crosses are on - 1/72 - I have not use for all of them - let me know.

21 January 2021, 20:44

Andrea Brenco
Very nice, I follow! maybe I will start mine, soon. Still have to decide kit and project...

22 January 2021, 00:32

Skyhiker
You are doing a great job

22 January 2021, 01:41

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx Andrea, Skywalker & Joshua.

26 January 2021, 19:27

Juergen Klinglhuber
Added one more pic before I need to undergo the next paint job on the landing gear and wheel bin. Hope to close the fuselage soon.

26 January 2021, 19:29

Skyhiker
Juergen, how is your canopy? I had a terrible canopy when I did this kit. Eventually I will have to replace it with a vacuform.

26 January 2021, 19:34

Juergen Klinglhuber
@Skywalker - added pic #23; it looks that my kit contained a quite ok canopy.

27 January 2021, 18:52

Skyhiker
Wow, you got lucky... Everyone I know who has this kit has canopy problems. Mine was so thin on one side that it cracked and the shape didn't fit on the fuselage. I wonder if they updated the clear parts? This is turning out to be a great build!

27 January 2021, 19:00

Falk Röllig
Following with interest

27 January 2021, 19:23

Spanjaard
cockpit seems quite ok in the picture.
but afer looking at mine, i got a couple of vacuformed ones for my two 262's....

27 January 2021, 21:16

Jan Peters
Now I'm getting very curious after the one in my recce kit.
Hope it is as good as yours 🙂

28 January 2021, 16:52

Juergen Klinglhuber
Hi all - thx for your comments and good luck with your canopies!
Different topic - key word "putty camo" - your ideas resp. comments are welcome. As I coming closer to the paint job, I thinking more and more about following "mistery" (at least for myself): do I have to fill the panel lines? I guess the "putty" was used as faying surface sealant in order to reduce aerodynamic drag. If so, I think most of the panel lines where not visible on this bird. In consequence the models panel lines need to be filled.....Someone supporting this approach? thx for your feedback.

29 January 2021, 14:37

Jan Peters
I did not fill the panel lines when I did mine, that way you can still pinwash them, otherwise the model may look a bit bland.
Ps my canopy looks ok🙂

29 January 2021, 14:50

Łukasz Gliński
Thinking of it too. Hopefully in my case the Airfix got quite deep panel lines, so I hope my "putty" (currently leaning towards brushing Light Gull Grey acrylic paint by Testors) will not cover them completely. Then I plan to add some dark grey wash, so it doesn't have that comic look😉

29 January 2021, 15:11

Jan Peters
Here's a link to the tamiya me262 I did a couple of years ago.
Some of my older works | Album by Jan Peters
I painted the putty lines with a medium grey over flat aluminium.

29 January 2021, 15:41

Jeremy Wiltcher
How does one get in on these group builds? I just happen to have finished one of my 262s.

29 January 2021, 15:41

Jan Peters
Change the tittle of your album to Scalemates Schwalbe Group build 2021, and it is added like magic🙂

29 January 2021, 15:43

Spanjaard
you can also "attend" the event. but yeah, the album name is most important.
(to attend, just go to the event, Scalemates Schwalbe Group build 2021 (1. January until 31. December, ) and add your response)

29 January 2021, 15:46

Spanjaard
and i would say paint rather than putty is the right way for a 262 in 1/72

29 January 2021, 15:51

Jeremy Wiltcher
Thanks!

29 January 2021, 16:15

Spanjaard
👍

29 January 2021, 16:17

Juergen Klinglhuber
Jan, thx for sharing your album. Nice content 👍

29 January 2021, 17:54

Jan Peters
Thanks, You're welcome.

29 January 2021, 18:11

Juergen Klinglhuber
A few upates in the pic's album. Nose section, landing gear & engine done. Tackling next the canopy aera and wings.

30 January 2021, 14:20

Jan Peters
Very nice scratchwork and detail painting

30 January 2021, 15:17

Matthew A
Inspirational

3 February 2021, 13:31

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx Jan & Matthew

5 February 2021, 11:26

Alec K
Very cool project. I found this to be a great kit (presuming the two seater is of same quality). Regarding the panel lines: I lean toward them being filled. They certainly were filled on the real thing. As far as the impact this will have on the "feel", I think that the putty lines will provide the visual interest instead. All that said, the lines on this kit are pretty fine and will not be very visible in any case (I personally would skip the traditional panel wash to avoid highlighting them). Above of course does not apply to any service panel lines. In any case, very nice progress and I look forward to an update 👍

7 February 2021, 12:21

Andrea Brenco
Love this build! Can I ask you why you painted the canopy frames black?

7 February 2021, 15:59

Juergen Klinglhuber
Hi Alec- thx for your comments and your feedback. It is encouraging my considerations towards filling them...
Still a couple days to think about it....thx.

7 February 2021, 16:31

Juergen Klinglhuber
Andrea - thx for your comment. What you see here is the inside of the canopy only. The outside surface in not yet painted. The reason why it is black is based on my picture reference - see #43 I have added. I am not sure if this refurbished museum aircraft is restored in the original coulours used once,....might be wrong.

7 February 2021, 16:37

Łukasz Gliński
Some say it should be RLM66, which is almost black.

7 February 2021, 18:25

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx - Lukasz for your interessting input. I looked it up in the web then....found the same. I took "anthrazit black" by coincidence, which should be close to the grey-black RLM66 type. On the pictures it looks pretty dark and shiny - I guess this is because the of the shinny, glazing canopy and unpainted frames. However - thank you mates for your comments - always interested to learn more. cheers

12 February 2021, 07:52

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx Roland.

20 February 2021, 21:38

Juergen Klinglhuber
Some small steps forward, after a few days off the bench.
Did some trials with paint as colouring is coming closer,...

20 February 2021, 21:39

Spanjaard
Promising indeed

20 February 2021, 21:51

Łukasz Gliński
Nice tests - I'm getting closer to puttying too.

20 February 2021, 22:05

Jan Peters
Testbed looks very good indeed, looking forward to see it on the model

21 February 2021, 16:57

Juergen Klinglhuber
Following Lukasz' trail (😉),...black base ist done.

27 February 2021, 20:11

Łukasz Gliński
Wow, that's shiny. I already screwed the topsides, so you might take me over soon😉

27 February 2021, 21:23

Alec K
Very nice progress Juergen 👍

28 February 2021, 14:52

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx, Lukasz & Alec. you know - painting is not my favoured part in model building. So I always push ist to right as long as possible,....:-]

28 February 2021, 16:55

Alec K
I know what you mean. I was just listening to the Plastic Model Mojo and they were discussing the "fear of screwing it up", i.e. reluctance to continue in a build when a skill we are not best at comes up. I don't love painting either, but canopy work is my bane 😄

28 February 2021, 18:09

Łukasz Gliński
I see no problem with painting, pure pleasure (unless the airbrush is clogged😉 ), but sanding and PE frets kill me 😄

28 February 2021, 19:18

Gordon Sørensen
Hreat looking Schwalbe, Juergen! Looking forward to seeing the end result.

28 February 2021, 19:28

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx mates for your inputs.
Today I up-loaded some new pic's after some hard days of repetitive masking&painting sessions.

7 March 2021, 08:20

Roland Sachsenhofer
Awesome! I am eager watching further progress!

7 March 2021, 08:25

Sebastian Meyner
Fantastic NMF Jürgen 👍

7 March 2021, 08:38

Martin Oostrom
You must be nuts Jürgen. This amount of added detail in 1/72 is top work! Enjoyed looking through the album very much

7 March 2021, 08:54

Andrea Brenco
Beautiful! Not sure if it is the same for the A-1, but in the B version the point of the nose was wooden, while the other nose section was iron and as such, was protected with primer HTH

7 March 2021, 11:00

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx Roland, Sebastian, Martin & Andrea - your feedback honors and I needed some balm on my soul after all that hours spend with masking - 😉
@Martin - yes, I was asking this myself several times the last couple days..... am I nuts doing this?
@Andrea - to you know the "real" appearence of that wooden nose cone? Was is really bare wood or was there some primer/putty on top too?
On the old black and white photographs you can hardly see any difference. I saw some colour pictures of the 711 - it was a greyish metal appearance (but the pic could be colourized and likely that the colour was taken wrong)

7 March 2021, 17:40

Andrea Brenco
I don't think it was bare wood, all the pictures I have, colors or b&w, show it a dark color (grey? black green?) with the same kind of traces of putty and sanding than on the airframe. I found some pics and info here ww2aircraft.net/foru..62-b-1a-b3-zm.44836/

7 March 2021, 18:19

Andrea Brenco
I have checked my reference, Me 262 vol. 3 Smith-Creek: regarding B-1a/U1 W.Nr. 110305 red 8, now in South Africa, it is written that the nose cone was of a wooden skinning, covered with alluminium foil on both inside and outside surfaces. Filler was applied to the outer skin than smoothed and painted. The restorers mention also a layer of outer brick red resin. Tape was on the main fuselage and nose section joins... Please note that this nose cone is from a radar equipped Schwalbe, I don't know if the manifacturing process was the same for fighters

7 March 2021, 18:41

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks for the info Andrea, that should help me a lot too 👍
Juergen, we seem to be going head-to-head😉

7 March 2021, 21:22

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx Andrea for those interesting details. I have considered the foil and the filler now on the nose. Not sure how to tackle the red resin, yet. Maybe I skip it.
Lukasz - a few more steps to the finishing line we have to go - 🙂 so I give an status: "putty on" since yesterday; hope to have clear coat applied until end of this week.
I figured out that I have an issue with the decals (size of serial numbers not in my spare box) - further I'm not sure how deal with the insignia on the vertical fin.
Pics follow asap.

10 March 2021, 11:22

Spanjaard
it is looking great. if i may offer a suggestion... I would have simply painted it all in the shiny color, then masked the areas you want shiny, and painted the dull color. I think it would have probably give the same result, and saved you a masking session.

10 March 2021, 11:47

Łukasz Gliński
Juergen, both kits have their pros and cons. Revell got the black crosses (though for the topside of the wings only), Airfix however got some serials, that I plan to cut and make 711 out of them (the smaller copy is placed under each stabiliser too, but I'm gonna skip these). Probably you have to steal the serials from some other decals. The swastikas look quite generic to my eye, so my Techmod set is ready.

10 March 2021, 12:32

Daniel Klink
Very comvincing metalwork Juergen!
Very well done mate👍

10 March 2021, 13:15

Juergen Klinglhuber
@Spanjaard - thx, this might have been a quite good approach in order so safe some hours. I will remind your suggestion on my next bigger masking project 😉
@Lukasz - I looted my decal spares already, some numbers will hopefully fit.
@Daniel - thank you for your kind words.
@all - 2 more pictures with the putty camo now added to the album - cheers

10 March 2021, 18:16

Jan Peters
It looks great Jürgen, the 'putty' is bringing all the colours together.

10 March 2021, 18:30

Roland Sachsenhofer
Marveous! Great work! I am planing to do a similar Me 262 in scale 1;32, yours will be my reference, for sure!

10 March 2021, 19:09

Alec K
Looks great 👍

10 March 2021, 19:27

Łukasz Gliński
Oh man, will I ever get close? 😄

10 March 2021, 19:57

Spanjaard
it truly looks fantastic. so it was time well spent anyway😉

10 March 2021, 22:30

Andrea Brenco
I really like how is coming out!

10 March 2021, 23:11

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx mates for your nice words, this kind of echo is quite motivating.

11 March 2021, 18:47

Juergen Klinglhuber
😉 go for it - seeing the putty camo next to your "red B" sounds interessing

13 March 2021, 08:26

David Taylor
master class in metal.

13 March 2021, 08:28

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx David

13 March 2021, 08:29

Martin Oostrom
She's looking good Jürgen!

13 March 2021, 09:53

Juergen Klinglhuber
So,.. done with the "appearance". Decals are on, some "weathering" effects I tried to apply (to avoid uniform metal panels - but from a distance of a day I fear this was a little too much).
But - that's what it is now. Looking forward to finish the bird during next week with last assembly steps like wheels, antenna and canopy.

14 March 2021, 15:55

Łukasz Gliński
The putty turned out quite dark after all, what colour did you use? And I see you managed to find the digits 👍

14 March 2021, 16:07

Stefan Fraundorfer
Hats off Jürgen, your model is extremely close to the original. Very good work!

14 March 2021, 16:16

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx gentlemen.
@Lukasz - I was not happy with the various greys in my stash - I mixed RLM71 & FS16081 (2:1; dark green, engine gray).

14 March 2021, 16:21

Jan Peters
It is looking great Jürgen.
The ailerons were deliverd to the factory in light grey or RLM 76 according to my references.

14 March 2021, 17:08

Alec K
I think it turned out great 👍

14 March 2021, 20:51

Juergen Klinglhuber
Thx gents for your nice comments.
I am a bit upset that I underestimated the effect of my wash. The idea was to vary the appearance of the various shades of the panel similar to the b&w pictures. Unfortunatly the whole thing turned out way darker than expected after applying the flat coat.

16 March 2021, 08:54

Skyhiker
Congratulations. Looks marvelous.

16 March 2021, 22:03

Łukasz Gliński
On one hand it got darker. On the other - I started with lighter grey and it turned out to be barely visible on the BMF. So, I'm going to test similar putty shade to yours, but will avoid washing it instead.

17 March 2021, 09:46

Juergen Klinglhuber
Hello all - today I report this build as finished. DONE with the ME 262 #711 "putty camo" 😉
It was fun with quite alot of ups & downs. Thx for your interest, comments and inputs during this build - much appreciated. cheers

20 March 2021, 08:04

Andrea Brenco
I really like it, compliments!

20 March 2021, 08:28

Jan Peters
Turned out great Jürgen! Love the details on the tail, are those decals, or did you paint the writing?

20 March 2021, 08:38

Sebastian Meyner
Fantastic work Jürgen 👍

20 March 2021, 08:42

Roland Sachsenhofer
Simply wonderful and inspiring! Congratulations Jürgen!

20 March 2021, 09:05

Neuling
Daß der überhaupt noch fliegt .......... You really made it!👍

20 March 2021, 10:48

Alec K
This turned out super well Juergen. Very inspiring 👍

20 March 2021, 13:42

Łukasz Gliński
Very cool indeed. 👍

20 March 2021, 13:51

Andy Ball
terrific scheme! unusual too!

20 March 2021, 15:03

Alex Rodionov
Nice idea and realisation.

20 March 2021, 16:06

Ben M
Very unusual idea... and executed extremely well. The finish is great!

20 March 2021, 16:37

Skyhiker
Great job.

20 March 2021, 17:12

Jonathan Read-Bone
Beautiful

20 March 2021, 18:02

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Awesome

20 March 2021, 18:29

DIMITRI
All the money is in the superb 'putty' work!!

20 March 2021, 19:55

Daniel Klink
👍👍👍

20 March 2021, 20:25

Alexander Grivonev
Really nice work, the "unpainted" look is very convincing👍

20 March 2021, 20:58

Rui S
Excellent result 👍

20 March 2021, 21:48

Guillaume Blanchet
Quite original and very well done!

20 March 2021, 23:47

Juergen Klinglhuber
Hi everyone.
Wow...I am really pleased about all this positive feedback. Thanks to everyone for leaving all those motivating tributes. regards Juergen

21 March 2021, 13:18