Me-410, Meng 1/48

[sgr]

Got it because online shop hasn't updated stock availability and I had to swap my original purchase. I think it's my favourite german plane, tbh, one of the 3 planes in front of I always spent most of my time in Cosford .

 

Goal is to glue everything clean and neat and paint it with more vibrant colors than usual (and with more contrast). Might not be 100% historically accurate because of that. First thing I've done after opening the box:

 

 

was glueing together few interior pieces and painting everything else in sprues:

 

 

I've notice that there isn't any decal for control panels. First time in my life I've decided to paint everything inside with a brush. (only aftermarkets I'm going to use are Montex masks and Aires exhaust - mostly because I had to add something to have minimal order at Hannants ). I'm in the middle atm, and I'm quite happy how it looks tbh. Few things have to be corrected, have to add some mud on the floor and some cables at the back of control panel as well (back is going to be clearly visible).

 

 

 

[_H_]

Great start! I finished mine a week or so ago, it's a lovely build but the canopy can be a bit tricky to get all the parts lined up. Took me a few go's  

 

Howard

[Marklo]

4 hours ago, sgr said:

paint it with more vibrant colors than usual

The late war 81/82 schemes are pretty vibrant if you can find one for the build.

[AaronKSJ]

Oooo, I'll follow along. I've been tempted a few times with this kit.

 

Good work so far on the cockpit

[sgr]

Thank you guys.

 

Finished interior. There are few things to improve - pictures are very helpful with that ;), but overall I'm happy and what's most important I had lots of fun painting that, although radios are not perfect. Tried dry fitting and - finger crossed - everything looks so, so. Only one small thing has to be sanded a little bit.

 

 

 

 

[k5054nz]

I just said "wow" under my breath in reverence and awe, looking at these cockpits. Beautiful!

[Harry Callahan]

Your paint art remind me to J.M. Villalba or Daniel Zarmabide. Simply fantastic job.

[Christer A]

An interesting approach to painting, but it looks very very nice!

[woody37]

Lovely paintwork in the pit, looking forwards to seeing it come together ,it's a great looking aircraft.

[sgr]

Small update. I've closed fuselage. I was slightly afraid tbh - lots of elements there, but everything fits very well, although I had to use a little bit of force, things are very tight in few places. The only issue is with cockpit - it's too high on one side. Everything is going to be covered by clear elements, so I'm not going to correct that. Noticed on few pictures I found online similar problem, so maybe it's not my fault ;). Overall I'm very impressed so far, it's my first Meng model, hope they will do something nice in 1/48 in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sgr]

Almost everything is glued together. Everything fits quite well, sometimes a lot of force is required though. Cockpit is leaning to one side a little bit. Too late to fix that, not sure how visible it would be. Not sure as well when and where I've made something wrong. I hope Meng will do Me-210 - I'll buy it and try to do cockpit right ;). Montex mask are hit and miss. Exterior one are ok, interior one have the same size as exterior ones and without trimming they are way too big. Yesterday it looked like this:

 

 

Today I've managed to roughly prime it with white acrylic paint:

 

 

And paint bottom part. Not sure about contrast. I usually paint much smaller miniatures and use a lot of contrast. Couldn't use so much contrast in such big model, but I don't have enough experience to judge how much I need. If all the varnish layers lower the contrast too much, I'll try to use some oils at the end. All painted with Mig Ammo paints straight on base color.

 

 

 

 

[sgr]

Top painted as well. Contrast might be too low, but - I hope - wash will help with that a little bit.