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Clement
Interesting pick for a 10 day challenge. But I guess it wouldn't be a challenge without a challenging kit. Best of luck.

Mike Volkov
Thank you Clement! I hope for the best 😅

Alec K
Taking a seat.

Mike Volkov
Day 2/10 on 10-day challenge: cockpit and gear bays painted and glued the fuselage together. Ready for filling and sanding...

Cuajete
INteresting...
Following!

S M
KP kit in 10 days? Taking a seat 😄

Mike Volkov
Day 3/10: lot of filling and sanding.... 😥

Alec K
Hopefully the worse is behind you. Nice progress 👍

Mike Volkov
I hope so too. 😄
Day 4/10: KP has given me a lot of fantastic sanding opportunities, but I'm finally getting to the priming. But it still needs a lot of fixing before I can start painting it.

Clement
"Sanding opportunities" is a nice way of putting it 😄
So far so good, looks like you have a good chance of pulling this off.

Cuajete
Well done so far! 👍

Mike Volkov
Day 5/10: Repairs after priming and some panel rescribing. Wheels and landing gear finished.

Mike Volkov
Day 6/10: Starting the paintjob with colour correction. The colour of the gear bay is grey and not bluish grey, and the wheel rim is typical Russian green and not grey. So I had to repaint a few things today. I use Ammo masking putty to temporarily hold small parts like this.

Cuajete
Good progress, Mike 👍

Mike Volkov
Thank you, Cuajete! 😊

Day 7/10: One of the top camouflage colours is Mr. Hobby H307. The other colour suggested by KP is H305, which is too grey. So I mixed in several blues, green, red and white. I can't post the proportions, but it's pretty close to the Pakistani bluish grey.

Mike Volkov
Day 8/10: The project is drawing to a close. After oil painting I prepare it for decals.

Alec K
Excellent results and tempo. Close to the finish line now 👍

Cuajete
Color scheme looks great 👍

Ben M
"Sanding opportunities" is my new favorite term

J35J
10 Day challenge, that's really a great idea!
Will certainly give it a go at some point.👍🏻

Mike Volkov
I have been organising a ten-day challenge with some friends for years. The goal is to get the kit on the shelf into the display case in 10 days.
Every year we give a subject:
2021: Third Reich military vehicles
2022: "British days" (civilian or military vehicles made or used by the UK), any scale
2023: 'Green days' (any civilian or military vehicle dominated by the colour green), any scale
2024: object of your choice, 1:72 scale only

This year 15 friends entered the event and 11 models were completed.

Mike Volkov
Day 9/10: After varnishing, the decals are applied and the panel lines are washed.
Unfortunately KP decals are not the nicest and are very vulnerable. One of them is broken.

Cuajete
Interesting yearly challenge friendship, Mike 👍
You are doing a great job in just 10 days with a KP kit.
You only have 1 day left. Cheer up!

Mike Volkov
Thank you Cuajete! 😊
Maybe next year I'll advertise the 10 days challenge more widely, to see if others would like to join in.

Mike Volkov
Day 10/10: A moment of truth after the matt varnish! I removed the masks and glued on drop tanks, antenna, pitot tube, guns.
I literally finished the ten day challenge at the last minute!

Clement
Fast pace and a great end-result. Impressive, really.

S M
Very impressive and fast! Congrats!👍👍

Mike Volkov
Thank you, guys! 🙏🏻
The project has been successfully completed.
I have uploaded the pictures of the finished model. The full build video will be available soon on my YouTube channel: Youtube Video

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

Mr D
Nice... very nice 👌👍

Mr D
Will have to add one to stash once l build my next one on line-up.
Smart aircraft n great history 👌👍

Trez
Thank you Mr D! Airfix is probably your best bet at this scale

Transall NG
Nice kit ! 🙂
@ Trez : Airfix is not better, nor Academy, nor Hasegawa ! There are no "reasonnably" perfect Me 262 kit at this scale, all of them suffering of some trouble, all of them having some great qualities... The Revell one is the best one in terms of quality, very easy to assemble, Tamyia stuff quality overall... but it suffers from a problem nearly no one can see, a positive incidence of engines nacelles regarding wing's incidence. Not easy to see at all for sure !
According the type of 262 you wish to built, you can combine sub-assemblies of specified kits to ease your correction work.
Czechs craftmen have a nice potential future kit with this one !

Trez
Hi Transall NG, thank you for the comment and insight! You mention the Tamiya and Revell kits - I assume you mean 1/48 or 1/32?
I have a fair few Czech/Eastern European kits - very good indeed - top of their game. There will always be newer kits that want to jump into your stash but I find it's like looking for the end of a rainbow. Eduard Volume 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 where does it all end? I prefer to check the kits I have and make my own adjustments within my limits - otherwise model kits are saturated with the dreaded After-Market thus stifling initiative and creativity whilst emptying one's pockets!

Nicolas
Following

yngvenett
I'm following this to learn

Martin Oostrom
Another tutorial one needs to watch

Gerald Sigmund
@mks: Komakais Walkaround shows meshes for the left and right intakes and none for the center one.

Bozzer
I have no idea of your subject, but I do enjoy your builds. The tutorial is always a lesson, and very informative. Keep them coming 👍

Pepe
Looking

berni
I take a seat 👍

Matthias
Watching 👍

Johne 69
I am in too 😃

Ben M
When you thin parts, what technique do you use?

MS K
@Ben M - When I need to shave a lot, like this time, I use file.

Michael Kohl
Martin and Bozzer pointed it out. This will be fun and informative to follow.

Matteo Pescarin
Oh wow, as usual, fantastic documentation of the efforts going into this project. Chapeau to you!
Nonetheless, it makes me want to skip any Revell kit from now on... if I only didn't have any in my stash XD

MS K
@Matteo - The new mold products produced since around 2010 are generally nice quality(2CV, VW T1, 911G, Etc...) , but this product is so poorly made that it is ridiculous. I don't know what the production concept of this kit is. It is poor for a precision model, and it's not even easy to assemble.

Michael Kohl
With Revell you better check in advance how that specific kit is rated by others. They have tons of reboxes and quite a few kits where you just wanna ask: are you serious? But then, once in a while, just to show that they are able - in general - to be a serious modelling company, they release some really fine stuff. Doesn't hurt to be prepared what you're up against.

Alexander Grivonev
A true Revell car kit experience 👍 The casted on wiper is especially painful

Michael Kohl
That diffusor is a tremendous improvement.

amazon.com/dp/B00004..aps%2C163&sr=8-3
Such a tool makes such work as fitting the diffusor panels to the chassis much easier (the thinner the needles/pins, the more precise the contour).
Just a german site to give an idea.
Cheers Michael

MS K
Nice idea. I wish there was something made of insect pins thin enough to use in a plamodel.