Thank you kindly for your commets gents!

@ Real G, the mottling is sooo hard to do. I once used a tiny piece of sponge and "stamped" thinned paint in two colours on my Horten. When the paint was still wet I redid the first colour to get it more blurred and the effect was quite satisfying in my humble opinion.

I am a brush painter but I heard that doing this with an airbrush is quite difficult too....

As for the J8M1, I've been looking for the Hasegawa kit for ages. In vain, alas, so i will give this a try.

Cheers!

Jan

Awesome! Happy to see the forum posting is now working for you Jan.

Again that's a beautiful model!

Yes, the prop was to run a generator to operate the electrical systems, as the rocket engine did not have an alternator like in piston or jet engines.

Hasegawa made a nice J8M1 Shusui that is much better, if you can find one.  The Academy Me-163 is a nice kit, and the Me-163S two seat option is a nice bonus.

German ink spot camouflage in 1/72 is notoriously difficult to do.  Here is a friend's Tamiya Bf-109E, spotted using a fine cotton swab and thinned paint.

https://flic.kr/p/244hrR2][/url]Bf-109E by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

To my unaided eye, they looked perfect.  But under the harsh, unforgiving, all-seeing camera lens, I can see the hard edges of the thinned paint.  A workaround would be to use fine torn sponges to break up the edges more.  But considering the kit was my friend's first airplane model, it came out very well!

What is that little prop thing on the nose?  Nice looking model.

Hi, the kit was a real pain in the neck and tpook me a month to build. Lots of flash, a cramped cockpit and parts that were either too small of too big. The kit is released by Mikro Mir, a brand from the Ukraïne or Russia. The only reason I built it was to complete my Komet-family. I just received the Japanese Komet:the Mitsubishi J8M1, another horrible kit by MPM. More info on my Me 263 can be found here: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/mikromir-72-001-messerschmitt-me-263-v1--155208

JayJay, I make my paint as thin as possible and prefer acrylics. The mottles were made by small amounts of paint. softened with a short haired brush. However, in my opinion it is too solid instead of vague....

Stay well, Jan

Nice - a rarely seen model subject.  I assume it is a MPM/Special Hobby kit?

I noticed most 1/72 Komet kits have the C-slots on the outer wings kind of mixed up; the airflow entered the slot under the leading edge and exited over the top, but most kits represent the lower slot as an air exit as well.  It bugs me that such a simple detail gets overlooked.

I remember seeing an actual Walther rocket engine with the auxiliary cruising chamber that the Me-263/Ju-248 used, at a museum.  It surprised me that such a rare artifact survived.

I had the Huma 1/72 kit, but it was really bad so I sold it.

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