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

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.

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.

It's a retired airframe Kev being repurposed.

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.

Good work Chris.

Looking good

The launch trolley has been completed with the grab handles added and Flory washes and Revell powder used for weathering. The decals on the Walter 501 jet engine came from a VERY old set from a Frog Arado Ar 234. The parachute was left attached to the rocket motor even though it never seperated from the trolley.

Interesting stuff. T Stoff, V Stoff and so on!

Quote from: zak on November 04, 2025, 06:26:36 PMInteresting stuff. T Stoff, V Stoff and so on!

Yes, lots of 'Stoff', looking good Chris, you're getting there.

Looking good Chris.

Work on the piolted A-2a/U2 continued and I found that the best way to get the etch cockpit in place was to fit it from underneath and then secure with superglue. I put some old blue tack in the fuselage nose and also into the forward parts of the engines to try and get some 'weight' forward on the launch trolley to hopefully stop any chance of tailsitting. The etch main undercarriage doors were fitted after some adjustment, the kit plastic parts had lips on for when in the 'wheels down' position so wouldn't fit. The central part of the under fuselage was then glue in place and gaps filled. The instructions tell you how much to cut from this to make it fit but they're wrong and you end up having to cut more from the front and fill the gap at the rear. Once the engines had been built they were positioned and as on the missile part there were gaps to be filled in the wings, see photo. The tailplanes and rudder were then attached and primer has been applied to highlight the work that will be needed.

Shades of grey then Chris yoho yoho yoho

Coming along Chris. Surprised to see such a large gap on the engine nacelle to wing join. Are you using just filler or scraps of plastic card shims shaped to match wing profile and finally a smear of filler?
The grey certainly helps to identify any problem areas.
Have you grown an extra pair of hands ready for the joining of the missile to the take off trolley, and then to the upper piloted Me-262.......?
Watching with interest.

I've put some scrap plastic in, which I've allowed to come out at the wing leading edge so I can sand down and filler will be used to level up. Filler has already been applied to gaps on the upper surface. The small etch 'pivots/shackles' on the struts have been positioned. I managed this without feeding the carpet monster once so am a happy bunny!!! I just hope everything levels up when I come to fit the A2-a/U2 on, if not it will be 'smoke and mirrors. Whilst everything is drying/setting I've been through my paint stock as I've come across an advert for AK Interactive paints, for Late War Luftwaffe aircraft, that states there were 3 versions of RLM81, two khaki and one dark green, with the latter being erroniously identified as RLM83. There's also three similar shades of RLM82, luckily all green!!! There's also differing shades of RLM76 from a light blue to the greenish colour named Sky in RAF use. I know the paint situation was dire towards the end of the war and anything would do, even a trip to their version of B&Q for something!!!