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Special Hobby three seat night fighter 1/72


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My second build for the G/B is this little kit that i got of ebay quite a few years ago . now seems the ideal time to clip it together.

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This looks like it may be another sanding and dry fit challenge 

Come on you little 262 BRING IT ON

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Arrr I know this model, I have one in the "not quite completed" section amount many others. It's been there for years but as memory serves me it wasn't a bad model to build at all.

 

I was wondering when we'd see one of these or similar, I'm glad one showed up.

 

Hopefully you can give me some inspiration to drag mine out and finish her.

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On 05/06/2018 at 21:51, Valkyrie said:

What a treat, great addition to the GB and will be watching this

Thanks Valkyrie . Hope i can do it justice .

 

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Cockpit made up as per instructions with the exception of seat belts which i have made from Tamiya tape .Care has to be taken to check position of all parts relative to each other as its a tight fit and there are no locating marks . When installed the cockpit tub is a very good fit 

 

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Used two part epoxy to secure tub in fuselage . This gave plenty of time if needed to adjust seats etc to fit .

 

Here is a dry run of main parts together . I recon this 262 has the most pleasing shape of any 262 project .

 

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The onion exhaust supplied by S/hobby is far to rounded at the front and looks more like the front central dome so after drilling a hole in the center this is where they will go  as S/hobby dont supply any for the front .

I am using some bombs from the spares box to fashion some new onions for the rear 

 

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This is where im up to now so will attach tail and nose

 

Obligatory picture of lead stuck in nose

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I am now going to order some brass tube for pinning wings and tail plains as again no attachment points are provided .

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there's plenty of room for weights in that model. 

 

For the era when it was designed it had a very modern look to it. With good engines it would have been a formidable beast.

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On 13/06/2018 at 23:48, trickyrich said:

there's plenty of room for weights in that model. 

 

For the era when it was designed it had a very modern look to it. With good engines it would have been a formidable beast.

I wonder how its performance would have compared to a DH Vampire  or Meteor Night fighter  . Engine maintenance would have taken longer with them not hanging conveniently down below the wing .

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If they had had access to proper materials they would have been a completely different engines, the majority of the issues were to do with the quality of the materials and premature failures a a result. This aircraft was proposed to have the HeS-011 which was more powerful and advanced that the BMW-003 or Jumo-004, there was a DB-021 Turboprop version of this one on the drawings as well.

 

It's always interesting to play the guessing game with these, but I reckon (just been doing some numbers) and with HeS-011 using the right materials, you would have been looking at early F-86 Sabre performance from her! Know wonders there was such a rush to grab all the hardware and documents at the end of the war! Make you wonder what the P.1011 would have been like if it had ever flown? 

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Some more progress . Used a Humbrol glue applicator to make the pins .

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Filled the joins with my fav talk ca glue mix .this also aided their chance to not fall off

 

Cut out the vac canopy , only get one so great care taken . not a perfect fit but falls into that will do range .

 

gave a spray with some halfords grey

 

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painted nose white and rear off engines alclad aluminum then masked off

 

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Acoat of RLM 76 and some custom grey violet thick worms

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Color scheme as per instructions , not something i often do

 

Under surface in black

 

removed canopy masks

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Applied some Copydex to drop tanks so i could expose the Rlm 76 blue paint as these were from an old 262 day fighter

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Decals were thin and only wanted to stick to them selves so some are from spares box .

 

Only the undercarriage to do before this one is done and i will get back to the main project.

 

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