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Recommend Me-262 Kit?

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  • Member since
    July 2003
  • From: Chicago, USA
Recommend Me-262 Kit?
Posted by MonsterZero on Monday, April 2, 2018 5:55 AM

I'm looking for a quality kit that shows some detail, especially the jet engines! Who makes one? Eduard?

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Monday, April 2, 2018 6:20 AM

Which scale you after?

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    June 2004
  • From: 29° 58' N 95° 21' W
Posted by seasick on Monday, April 2, 2018 9:38 AM

I can tell you a bunch not to buy. Then again I have trouble with jets that don't have a radar in the nose.

Chasing the ultimate build.

  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Monday, April 2, 2018 6:15 PM

In 1/72, the Hasegawa kit is well regarded, but it's old(ish) and has simplified cockpit and wheel well detail, plus no detailed engines.  The Airfix kit is the newest one on the block, but I have not had a look at it.  Revell Germany's kit looks nice in the box, but I was not impressed.

In 1/48, the DML (ex-Trimaster) kit was king of the Me-262s, and did have full engines, but lacked plumbing.  I found this kit very accurate and well detailed overall, but it was fiddly to build and had some fit issues particularly the engine/leading edge fairings and the lower wing.  The Hobby Boss kits are the newest 1/48 Me-262 kits, but again I don't have any of them so cannot comment on their quality and accuracy.  Tamiya makes a nice looking Me-262, which I am sure goes together well.  The Monogram kit is very old, the Lindberg kit is a dinosaur.

In 1/32 the Trumpeter kits are probably the best, although Revell Germany's new 2-seat night fighter has a more accurate lower canopy sill for that particular variant.  (Trumpeter's night fighter canopy supposedly more closely resembles the trainer version.)  The Revell kit has full engines like Trumpeter, but is dirt cheap compared to Trumpeter.  I think both have separate leading edge slats, which on the real machines drooped down when at rest (they were air-loaded so closed auomatically during flight).  Hasegawa and Revell USA both have very old kits that are best forgotten given what is currently available.

HTH

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

  • Member since
    November 2004
Posted by snapdragonxxx on Monday, April 2, 2018 6:37 PM

I agree in 1/32 scale that trumpeter are the best and eduards detail sets take it to a superb display piece, along with metal barrels.

There are some excellent AM seatbelts, which add to the cockpit from HGW - a bit fiddley but so worth it in the end.

When it comes to the difference between the Revell and trumpeter 2 seat Me 262 night fighter then the trumpeter one is the more accurate with the cockpit and canopy as they were single seat aircraft, coverted to trainers in the factory and then radar added in the field hence the /U1 designation.

Not a cheap kit - best prices are on Ebay and tend to be around the £60 mark. AM stuff add to it, but in the end and with time, references and extra stuff added to the engines in the piping area and nose weight added forward and underneath the cannon bay and Vallejo's authentic RLM paints then a real cracking display piece can be done.

James

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