Monogram Me-262 w.i.p.

[Daryl J.]

Having grown up on Monogram kits, they have a solid place in my heart in the face of the newer mouldings we've been privileged to enjoy over the last 15 years or so.

Here is an enhancement of the 1/48 Me-262 that is underway.   
Some panel lines are rescribed, others drilled and scalloped, some are laminated out of paper thin sheet styrene,  but others left where raised detail is warranted.

As engraved panel lines along the aft fuselage are an error, I tried to replicate Messerschmitt's construction method by masking the plastic along the panel lines and building up areas with airbrushed layers of Mr. Surfacer 500.  It's far from perfect as after it was done, I learned that Messerschmitt built aft fuselages with a hi-lo-hi-lo-hi-lo pattern rather than the shingle-over-shingle pattern.    Stripping all that lacquer might hurt the plastic and there was too much time invested it was left as is. It's my fecking model!      Where the detail was too heavy, it was sanded back a bit.   

With a little more work on the exterior and with due caution glueing the vertical stabilizer, the kit should start to come together fairly quickly.   It was shot with some Mr. White Surfacer 1000 to check the primer buildup as well.

The pix:














It is very tempting to place alternative markings such as USAF SEA Green/Green/Tan/Black or some light toned monochrome lo viz from the 1990's but likely this will be built up into some immediate post war Watson's Whizzers marks or the like.

And that's another WIP.


,
Daryl J.

[HOG]

I`ve got a set of Watsons Whizzers decals from Ventura around somewhere. Let me know if you need em and I`ll dig em out
Cheers 
Gary