Tintin: Voir et Savoir 43 - Messerschmitt ME-262
- Scale:
- 1:144
- Status:
- Completed
- Started:
- November 23, 2016
CET appareil eut une destinée extraordinaire. En mars 1942, un Me-262, doté d'un train tricycle, effectuait son premier vol. En 1943, à la suite d'un rapport du général des chasseurs allemands Galland, enthousiasme par les performances de cet avion, la LUFTWAFFE voulut le commander. Sans même consulter G'ring, Hitler ordonnait la poursuite de sa mise au point, mais interdisait sa construction en série. Vers la fin de l'année toutefois, Hitler se souvint de cet avion, mais, persuadé par G'bbels et Bormann, il voulut en faire un bombardier. Cette décision entraîna de nouvelles études et de nouveaux retards, mais malgré cela, sous la direction du général Milch, la construction de chasseurs se poursuivit jusqu'au jour où Hitler, l'ayant appris, donna l'ordre de les transformer immédiatement en bombardiers. Ainsi que l'écrivit le général Galland : " On aurait aussi bien pu transformer un cheval en vache laitière ! " Ce n'est qu'en octobre que fut abandonnée cette politique. Il était trop tard : le meilleur chasseur du monde ne pouvait lutter à un contre cinquante !
Un jour un pilote d'essai se réfugia à Zurich, en Suisse, à bord d'un Me-262. De peur que l'appareil ne tombât aux mains des alliés, Hitler ordonna l'attaque de Zurich par troupes parachutées. Cette opération, qui avait été confiée au fameux colonel Skorzeny, le libérateur de Mussolini, fut décommandée à la toute dernière minute ; les Suisses avaient d'ailleurs été avertis par l'espionnage allemand de ce qui se tramait et l'avion fut rendu à la LUFTWAFFE. Plusieurs unités furent équipées de cet appareil remarquable, et c'est à bord de l'un d'eux que le grand as allemand Walter Nowotny trouva la mort, descendu le 15 mars 1945 par un Tempest de la R.A.F.
Caractéristiques : Envergure : 12,50 m. – Longueur : 10,60 m. – 2 réacteurs Junkers Jumo 004 de 900 kg. chacun. – Armement : 4 canons de 30 mm. – Vitesse maximum : 869 km/h.
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I'm trying to figure out what decals will be needed for this project. Anyone have any idea what that little yellow shield might be? I've looked through a bunch of German WWII crests but nothing leaps out at me. Any experts out there?
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I'll buy that answer Matthew... thanks!
Now the question for this project is do I use the okay-but-just-barely Revell Micro Wings Kit, or do I use the much better Trumpeter one. There's competition between two projects, this one, and Leijiverse - The Black Knight of Berlin | Project by strobez (1:144) . In that project the Me262 will be painted jet black with a gold skull head mark. The Revell will likely hide a lot of its flaws under the shadow of a black coat, but the Leijiverse project ranks higher in my personal list.
Decisions decisions...
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Leijiverse uses Platz? then trumpeter would be a good idea next to them. those Platz are excellent
i have not build the Revel one
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nice project 👍
i have both the Trumpeter and revell kits in stash, and my advice: go with the Trumpeter kit. its far superiour then the 50+ year old revell moulds.
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Well, the question isn't really which one is superior. The Trumpeter kit wins that hands down. I have both kits, so my plan was to use the Trumpeter kit side-by-side with the Platz P-51 Mustangs and leave the Revell one as a stand alone. That makes sense to me given that the kits in my Voir et Savoir project are of varying quality. The only caveat is that using the Trumpeter one in the Leijiverse build means it will basically be painted completely black. So, there was a small voice in the back of my head that said "well, if it's just going to be be black... maybe the Revell one will do..." but I keep that voice quiet... with all the rest of them.😉
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get another Trumpeter, you can leave the Revel for other project. it is not exactly a 50USD model😉
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I knew if I kept talking about it long enough someone would come up with the solution I was hoping for...😉
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You'd be surprised... I might be able to smuggle in something I bought off a shelf, but she usually gets to the boxes in the post before I do. She has a radar that seems to go off every time I try to get something by her.
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Yeah. She recently said to me "I feel better about having two children, knowing that one of my sons at least has a decent job and earns a living..."
To which my 10-year old son replied "does this mean I have to go get a job?"
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I think this project is going to go up the priority ladder quite quickly. I think after I finish my current builds, this one and the B-24 are going on the bench. 🙂
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Okay, that's it... in the interest of public safety in light of the growing crowd here, the management has decided to open up the tent and start the show early. C'mon inside - Voir er Savoir 43 - Me262 | Album by strobez (1:144)