Brad Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 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. 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorby Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Nice job and very nice mottling. Is this the 1/48? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duncan B Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Very nicely done and good to see something a little different. Duncan B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted May 19, 2018 Author Share Posted May 19, 2018 9 minutes ago, Gorby said: Is this the 1/48? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Very nice `262 there Brad, love the `captured` subject too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Good looking 262 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Superb, very nicely done and photographed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Excellent build there, Brad with a great paint finish. If only these planes had been preserved for posterity rather than scrapped. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Love it, very cool indeed 👌 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fewr9fkr9595 Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Nice clean build! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philtheplanetinker Posted May 21, 2018 Share Posted May 21, 2018 Nice 262, interesting scheme 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radpoe Spitfire Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 (edited) 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 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted May 24, 2018 Author Share Posted May 24, 2018 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalkeEins Posted May 24, 2018 Share Posted May 24, 2018 ..neat Brad, very neat! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwitrogg Posted May 25, 2018 Share Posted May 25, 2018 Nice work on something a bit different. I like it Cheers Gaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radpoe Spitfire Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 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👌👍 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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