Captured Messerschmitt Me 262A

[Brad]

This is the very nice Tamiya kit used along side the Cutting Edge Crossdressing Stormbirds decal sheet.  Yellow 17 was flown by Lt Hans Dorn of 1/JG7 and was captured at Fassberg by No 616 Squadron RAF in May 1945. I could find very little information on Dorn, I suspect he was a replacement pilot and fairly new to JG 7, seeing little or no action in his time there. As for yellow 17, she was designated AM-52 and ferried back to England for evaluation before being declared surplus and shipped off to Canada. From there, she was sold along with 300 other surplus aircraft and scrapped.

 

As I said the Tamiya kit is a real pleasure to build. Painted with Gunze RLM 82/83/76 with weathering kept pretty light as this machine looked almost brand new when captured, in all likelihood it was. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gorby]

Nice job and very nice mottling.

Is this the 1/48?

[Duncan B]

Very nicely done and good to see something a little different.

 

Duncan B

[Brad]

9 minutes ago, Gorby said:

Is this the 1/48?

Yes.

[russ c]

Very nice `262 there Brad, love the `captured` subject too

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Good looking 262 

[Parabat]

Superb, very nicely done and photographed.

[Vinnie]

Excellent build there, Brad with a great paint finish. If only these planes had been preserved for posterity rather than scrapped.

[F-32]

Love it, very cool indeed 👌

[fewr9fkr9595]

Nice clean build! 

 

[Philtheplanetinker]

Nice 262, interesting scheme

[Radpoe Spitfire]

On 19/05/2018 at 10:15, Brad said:

This is the very nice Tamiya kit used along side the Cutting Edge Crossdressing Stormbirds decal sheet.  Yellow 17 was flown by Lt Hans Dorn of 1/JG7 and was captured at Fassberg by No 616 Squadron RAF in May 1945. I could find very little information on Dorn, I suspect he was a replacement pilot and fairly new to JG 7, seeing little or no action in his time there. As for yellow 17, she was designated AM-52 and ferried back to England for evaluation before being declared surplus and shipped off to Canada. From there, she was sold along with 300 other surplus aircraft and scrapped.

 

As I said the Tamiya kit is a real pleasure to build. Painted with Gunze RLM 82/83/76 with weathering kept pretty light as this machine looked almost brand new when captured, in all likelihood it was. 

 

Nice little build there👍  I'm a 616 Squdron affectionado with an old revell 1/32 262 in the stash, so if I may, can I use your photos for reference please?

 

The is an account of 616 Squadron pilot (Tony Dyer- I think 😕, but stand to be corrected) who landed his Meteor on an autobahn being used by a Meteor 262 unit- was this one of the aircraft I wonder?

Edited May 24, 2018 by Julien
pls dont qoute the whole topic inc pictures

[Brad]

51 minutes ago, Radpoe Spitfire said:

Nice little build there👍  I'm a 616 Squdron affectionado with an old revell 1/32 262 in the stash, so if I may, can I use your photos for reference please?

 

The is an account of 616 Squadron pilot (Tony Dyer- I think 😕, but stand to be corrected) who landed his Meteor on an autobahn being used by a Meteor 262 unit- was this one of the aircraft I wonder?

 

Yeh you can use them, no problems mate.

[FalkeEins]

..neat Brad, very neat!

[kiwitrogg]

Nice work on something a bit different. I like it 

Cheers

Gaz

[Radpoe Spitfire]

On 5/24/2018 at 3:43 PM, Radpoe Spitfire said:

Nice little build there👍  I'm a 616 Squdron affectionado with an old revell 1/32 262 in the stash, so if I may, can I use your photos for reference please?

 

The is an account of 616 Squadron pilot (Tony Dyer- I think 😕, but stand to be corrected) who landed his Meteor on an autobahn being used by a Meteor 262 unit- was this one of the aircraft I wonder?

The 616 sqn  Pilot was Tony Gaze👌👍