Hobby Boss - 1/72 Me 262 - decals and done.

Decals went on well, apart from the trailing edge walkways ones, which kept on folding up, and the fuselage stripe, whose edges shattered, so I replaced it with a Revell Me 262 one.

The only other oddity to me is the swastika which comes in two parts and is backwards. Andrew on the UAMF has informed me it's for the German market, and that I am supposed to have put them on upside down. I thought the reverse side would have been all white and never checked ooops. Ah well a good reason to get another one of these kits..

The decals seem a bit bright so they were toned down with some thinned Tamiya deck tan sprayed over them and the high points on the airframe, then a scattering of thinned Tamiya black and brown, and finally a coat of Vallejo satin model air varnish and she's done...

Hobby Boss - 1/72 Me 262 - Painting

Got the canopy on, and sprayed a dark primer on it for the framing, showed up a couple of gaps that needed filling.

So I used Tamiya basic filler thinned with Tamiya lacquer thinner to smooth it into the gaps.

A sand back and then a couple of coats of Tamiya Fine Surface primer and it was paint time.

I have trouble picking schemes, especially when a subject like the 262 seems to have so many choices, but after a bit of time, I decided to go with a RLM 74/75/76 scheme. To me it looks even more modern and fighterish in the greys.

This afternoon I sat down and mixed some colours up using the Tamiya acrylics I had about, then while the family were out at sports this evening I painted it..

I love the airbrush for scheme like this, it must be my favourite part of the process, when the grey plastic lump, starts coming to life, with its colour on.

Freehand with using some post-it notes and about three strips of masking tape for the straight edges. I really enjoyed it.

So hopefully decals soon.

Cheers
Jim

Hobby Boss - 1/72 Me 262 - Assembly

Progresses quickly this kit, I've spent some time fill the wheel wells, I'm building it in-flight as I do most of my aircraft models. Some one said once you don't see many aircraft driving down the road...
The main wheel doors fit really well, for the nose doors I used a tab from one of the sprues to fill it, and then a couple of little slivers of plasticard for the sides holes.

Hobby Boss - 1/72 Me 262 - Parts perusal

I have been eager to build a Hobby Boss Easy Assembly kit for a while now, but haven't found an excuse to build one, normally the kids grab any I buy for themselves.. they certainly have looked good when the kids have built them. So I took the opportunity of an early jets group build that's running on UAMF, to have a crack at their Me262.
So box content...