Messerschmitt Me 163B, Dragon 1/48

[solowing666]

Good afternoon (on my part of the globe), gentlemen.

 

This model was somewhat an opportunistic purchase; I won the kit at USD 15 in a local auction.

Some times later I got a kit with a suitable theme so I made a dual build of those two.

Therefore I decided the Komet would be in the whole RLM 23 scheme flown by Wolfgang Späte.

The kit originally comes with engine parts but for simplicity reason I opted to build a closed-up fuselage.

I was lacking in references, I should've smoothed out the seam between vertical tail and fuselage.

I got troubled with some of the decals, hence some silvering can be seen (e.g. Balkenkreuze under the port-side wing)

Unfortunately, for this project I didn't make a WiP documentation.

And here's its dual build counterpart, I chose to paint both of them RLM23 Red,

one is literally Red Komet, the other is piloted by "Red Comet", and to me personally, both are awesome machines (and kits).

Should I post another article for the counterpart?

 

Cheers,

 

ZM

[John_W]

Both nice builds.

You have to admire the courage of anyone who flew the 163 more than once.

[Tbolt]

Very nice, lovely finish.

[russ c]

Excellent Komet there, but the pilots too big 

[Reini78]

that´s a nice pair!

[Mark4700]

Very impressive. Love the scheme 

[celt]

Well tidy pair of red comets.