Something for Tophe (2)

[K5054NZ]

Well, you can guess from the title alone that I am about to zwilling something. I only hope he, or someone else here, hasn;t done it already.

It;s by no means finished, but I wanted to share and whet the collective appetite anyway.



Me262Z!



I'll do some more once I've softened my filler, til then, any suggestions or comments?

[Tophe]

In my book "Supplement 1 to Forked Ghosts" were drawn 3 Me 262Z, from models by 2 members here (Zuid99, MartinH) and a kit provider (Igor of Unicraft). Then, I have mentioned in "The end of Forked Ghosts" the Me 462 of another member (Myr), adding the Me 362 and 262Z-3 that were drawings without plastic achievement.
The new one is very welcome, I would just say, as far as I am concerned: please try to have a different shape not only different colours...    

[elmayerle]

Zac,

If you're interested, PM me and I'll send front, top, and bottom views of a Me262Z concept I did sometime back for the German Projects Group (Luft'46) on Yahoo.  It's got a twinned engine nacelle in the center.

HTH,
Evan

[Ollie]

This'll be wicked Zac boy...


 

[SimonR]

Nice work, Zac! I think it would look cool if you stacked the two centre engines vertically, one below the wing and one above.

[K5054NZ]

Tophe, I'll try to make mine stand out, but not having seen anyone else's efforts I don't know how similar (or otherwise) it will be. But I'm beginning to look elsewhere for the colour scheme.....goodbye Luftwaffe, hello allies.......

[Tophe]

First, here is the Me 462 Kormoran from our friend Myr at http://home.wanadoo.nl/thraex/wings/axis.html
.
I will bring back the 5 others in a few minutes or hours.
SimonR's idea is confirmed brand new: this layout has never been built yet, and the separation between tailplanes would be explained by a free space for the jet exhaust above... ^_^

[Tophe]

Then the Me 262Z-2 of our friend Zuid99 at http://www.xs4all.nl/~tozu/l46/L46-me262z.htm :

[Tophe]

In my book "Supplement 1 to Forked Ghosts" were drawn 3 Me 262Z, from models by 2 members here (Zuid99, MartinH) and a kit provider (Igor of Unicraft). Then, I have mentioned in "The end of Forked Ghosts" the Me 462 of another member (Myr), adding the Me 362 and 262Z-3 that were drawings without plastic achievement.

Here is an overview of the ones drawn in my books, the Me 462 missing as well as Elmayerle's, slightly different:

[Tophe]

PS. The Me 262Z-3 of mine is not the temporary Me 262 Mistel* (picture below) but a vertical Zwilling biplane, with no struts in between and the 2 airplanes are "glued" to one another, the jets above laying over the wing below
* (Dragon 1/48 see http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal3...nce/gal2370.htm or http://kits.kitreview.com/me262mistelpreviewbg_1.htm ,
nor MPM 1/72 see http://www.48specialmodels.com/48pics/M4/m.../m4-4cseite.jpg or http://149.142.139.138/Web/KM/262mista.html )

[K5054NZ]

Whew! Mine is rather different to those you've posted, Tophe, thank goodness. I don't have enough filler to work on it right now, but when I do it'll be completed quickly (hopefully).

[Brian da Basher]

Wow these are all great pics which lead me to an idea...how about a four-engined Me-262? Vrrrrrooooooommmmm!!!!

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

A 4-engined Me 262V (V for Vroom...) is very easy to get from my past drawings, more difficult to build, wasting a complete kit (to be used to build a Me 262 glider?).
Anyway, there is at http://www.unicraftmodels.com/ (Available Kits part) a cheap conversion set for the 8-engined (!) Me 262W... Even if this was an actual project, JMNs would not dare to take it seriously, leaving it to us... Me 262 Wwrroomm...  

[Tophe]

Whew! Mine is rather different to those you've posted, Tophe, thank goodness. I don't have enough filler to work on it right now, but when I do it'll be completed quickly (hopefully).

Whew, Zac, another shape!? Great addition!
And will it be different from SimonR's suggestion?
I will wait to see yours to build mine: I have the MPM kit...

I consider building in plastic the Z-3, or else another, after presenting many more drawn possibilities to decide which one to build... The whole will make a great gallery!
Just an extra question: why didn't you post this topic in the twin-tail forum?: do you plan to discard one tail? replaced by a rear canopy with wonderful view backwards?  

[Tophe]

From our dear engineer Evan, smiling but too shy to teach us: "my particular variant is close to the Me-262Z-1 you show, but differs in a few significant ways.    I took care of the nasty interference drag problems (from those two separate center engine nacelles being so close together) by putting the center engines in a twin-engined nacelle."

Thanks for the lesson, dear engineer... We will improve while dreaming, we will try...