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Started by cph64, August 03, 2025, 01:29:16 PM

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cph64

Yes, plenty of Luftwaffe still to build and more on order. You can never have enough, got better the Spitfires, lol!!

cph64

Building has 'flip-flopped' between the launch trolley, the piloted a/c and the missile. The latter has been painted Xtracrylc RLM 74 Graugrun and Vallejo RLM 75 Grauviolett above with the same company's RLM 78 Hellblau underneath. The covered over pilot's area is Tamiya Buff with a wash of Citadel Seraphim Sepia to represent the wood.
The launch trolley was, as mentioned online, a task to put together, one person gave up and used the one from the Revell He 162 Mistel!! The instructions are vague and there's no locating points for some of the parts. The main wheels come in two halves so there's been a lot of work on them and they and the support arms have very small locating points in the bogies. Trying to get two wheels and an arm into place was a bind so I went for glueing the two wheels in place then sanding down the locating pips on the arms and feeding them up through the bogey. I looked at the instructions many times to see which way they should fit and after commiting to glue found that the pads at the top faced the wrong way for the missile to sit on, so they'll have to be sanded!! With some of the smaller parts to still fit the complete assembly was painted using Xtracrylic and Vallejo Panzergrau. The wheels are Tamiya Rubber Black with a wash of Flory grey.
The etch cockpit for the piloted a/c has been built and painted but when fixed to one side of the fuselage it wasn't central and wouldn't reach the other side. Luckily I've managed to part it from said side and I've put some pads of scrap plastic to each fuselage side and I'll see how we go from there. The Walther rocket has been built and painting started.

Bigkev

Nice work Chris. I did my 'missile' in unpainted scheme. Your build must be at a hidden factory where more time was possible to camouflage them. Be interesting to see it fully finished.
I hope my next is always better

cph64

It's a retired airframe Kev being repurposed.

Bigkev

Quote from: cph64 on October 26, 2025, 07:58:53 PMIt's a retired airframe Kev being repurposed.

A ha, I hadn't thought of that, fits the bill brilliantly.
I hope my next is always better

chriswil42

Chris

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