Looks really nice Steve, good work on the mottling.

Here's my 262. I just need to paint the gear, spray the gloss coat, apply the decals and wash. final touch-up, set it on a base, then I can call this baby done.

I'm tried the pre-shading of the panel lines on my 262, but they didn't show through like I'd hoped. I still need to spray the dark green patches, then touch up, gloss, and apply the decals.

I didn't apply primer before pre-shading, did I miss a step? The paint job looks just fine, but I guess I'll resort to the tried and true wash method I'm use to.

Steve

TREY,

 Why yes, yes I do.

I fly electric though. The flying field that runs glow and gas is 30 miles away. The electric field is 2 miles away . It took awhile but I managed to convert to electric, just prior to getting back into plastic.

Thanks Gamera ,Bish

Good eyes Modelcrazy ,yea guilty as charged and its been a conflict for sure! Building a Hangar 9 20cc Mustang and a 20cc Top Flight P40E at the moment. Do you also indulge in RC?

TREYZX10R

Is that a Futaba "J" Y connector I see in you photo? Are you moonlighting with Radio Control?

Looking nice there guys, some good work all round.

Thanks Trey, and very nice work there on the Salamander!

Modelcrazy thanks,the 262 is looking clean glad to hear the fit is good!

Sabre is looking great Gamera!

Small update ,used some water based glue to place the gear doors and nose cone back on temporarily for painting. Should start painting soon.

Lookin' good there Steve!

The F-86 is together, sprayed her with several coats of white primer Sunday and am waiting to make sure it's good and dry. There are a couple places I need to fix of course. 

TREYZX10R,

That Salamander is looking great, I've always liked that plane, killed a lot of young pilots though.

The engine is fantastic. I've never tried to tackle an engine and need to give it a try someday. May hurt to tackle and engine.

Here's my update.

The Me 262 JV44 is coming along, and ready for paint. This is a very easy and sweet kit and everything just falls together. Way to go Hasagawa.

PJ: Lol, well desperation is the mother of invention! I would have used plastic sheet but I didn't have anything thin enough to get a good tube!

Trey: Yeah, that engine is beautiful, good thing it's right there on top where it's easy to see!!!

Trey

Just looked at the super sized picture of your engine and it looks fantastic. IMO looks better than the resin upgrade. Great job on the plumbing that I bet is solder wire.

Thanks for the kind words Fellas, that wiring job about drove me nutz!

PJ the kit is nice but would sure benefit from some resin upgrades especially the engine.

Gamera thats looking sharp,yes the office that dark does turn it into a black hole but what ya gonna do its accurate.

Got the wings mounted up and after some tweaking got it close to being the right dihedral and evenly matched . Threw the engine in temorary just to see how it would fit ,no issues so far .

Gamera

 

I took some paper and rolled it up and fitted it inside as a tube and laid some Mr. Surfacer on the gaps, looks ok to me now- hope it holds up.  

Of course!...... The old rolled paper with Mr Surfacer to cover up the gap trick! The boys in the lab have to hear about your method!

Sounds good Bish,

I'll definitely use it for that.  Especially since I have 2 other 190's I can use for the next Butcher Bird build.

Steve, I was eyeing that kit up for a while but took a different route, look forward to seeing this one. The 190 will work nicely for the 1945 GB.

Steve: Looks very cool, and I think I built that 262 maybe twenty years ago or so. Seem to remember it going together, no muss, no fuss, only hold-up was trying to paint those little ink blots in the camo in 1/72nd.

PJ: Yeap, I'm aiming to hit her with a coat of white primer to find any issues before the aluminum paint. It ought to work ok under the yellow bands. I did encounter one problem last night though, after cementing the fuselage together I find a 2 mm gap between the intake and the duct. I guess I must have put the cockpit and intake too far back, I dunno. I took some paper and rolled it up and fitted it inside as a tube and laid some Mr. Surfacer on the gaps, looks ok to me now- hope it holds up.  

P.J

Now it time to work on your GB with a 1/72 Hasegawa Me 262. It looks like it will go pretty fast.

Ill keep the Dora for the next Butcher Bird build or something.

Yep that's what I have. I heard they replaced the decals with better ones made by Cartograph, mine unfortunately are made in Korea and must be the ones with the problem. I just may have to get a replacement decal set. I think that if you spray white first then the yellow will be more uniform.  

It's this kit, sorry not sure about the number though. 

I love the kit decals and the father of one of the members of our IPMS club worked ground crew the box top aircraft, but I'd heard about issues with them too so I bought another set. I'm going to try to paint the yellow bands, wish me luck on that! 

Gamera, is that the Academy #2162? I have it in my stash and heard bad things about the included decals being crap. They are very colorful and it's a shame if in fact they are no good.

Thanks! I'm really impressed with this kit, if it wasn't for trying to putty and sand the insides of the intake ducts I'd probably be painted and decaling right now. Pretty much a fall together kit.

Great progress Gamera, and looking very good.

Ok, finally some photos here, sorry they aren't the best- cell phone camera under not so great lighting conditions.

Cockpit, seems Korean War Sabres had the cockpits painted black, I used dark grey but it still seems to turn into a black hole of detail.

The kit came with a complete jet engine and the intakes. I went ahead and painted the interior ducting though I doubt much will be visible. You can cut the kit to show the engine off but I didn't do this so I didn't paint the outside of the engine and intakes at all:

The kit builds into a F-86F with the 'hard' unslatted wing. I picked up some substitute decals for a F-86E with the slatted wing. A friend at our modeling club had this sheet of instructions on where to scribe to get the look of closed slats on the wing leading edge:

Lol, well if she's that bad I don't blame you a bit!

My sanity is worth more to me than a sucky kit , just cut my losses and move on. LOL

I might get something else for the GB.

Theuns

Ohhh, that engine with all the extra wiring looks awesome Trey!

Theuns: I know what you mean about sucky kits, maybe just finish the thing off quick and dirty and move on to something better?

Trey

The resin updates were for the cockpit in general, another just for the seat, another for the engine and a nose gear detail set.