Me-262 and derivatives

[Maverick]

Love the second one Greg.  You should toss in the nachtjager's twin seats & radar.

Regards,

Mav

[sequoiaranger]

I have several 1/72 Me-262's lying around (Special Hobby 3-seat swept-wing, MPM Glass-nose, Hasegawa and Jo-han "regular"), and have been looking for the "perfect" whif that wouldn't likely have been done already. Maybe I have hit on it. My "Me-2262" would incorporate the three-seat fighter version with the swept wings (will be "normal" sweep with Su-25 root extensions) and sunk-in-the-fuselage jets with the "glass-nose" bomber version, additional underwing jet engines, plus bits and pieces of anything else I can throw in.  It will be a little longer and have greater wingspan than any "regular" Me-262. I am thinking three tandem under-fuselage bomb racks like a Sturmvogel-on-steroids, fairly wide-track undercarriage ("standard" Me-262 wings attached outboard of a wing-root extension from an SU-25), and four engines. As part of the backstory I am proposing that, in desperation and an attitude of "mix it up a bit and keep them off-balance", Hitler now demands that Messerschmitt build bombers, and Heinkel build fighters!! Both companies scramble to come up with something using existing designs and components, thus easing production disruptions. This results in my He-1062 contraprop, and now this super-Me-262.

[dumaniac]

lots of good conversions there - I have done some but there are lots more 262 variants

thanks everyone

Bernie

[GTX]

A different approach to the Me 262 A-2a/U2:



Regards,

Greg

[Maverick]

Much more streamlined, although I wonder if the bombardier would have enough room?  ISTR the glass nose 262 as being cramped enough.

Regards,

Mav

[GTX]

I have stretched the nose and it would still be a prone position.

[Maverick]

G'day Greg, I realise you've stretched it, but given that the original's canopy line was pretty much level with the top of the fuse, a streamlined design would encroach rather a bit I'd think.

Regards,

Mav

[The Wooksta!]

Not enough room for the bombsight.  Well, there is, but not enough room for the bomb aimer to use it.

[GTX]

Something I found online - cool!



Regards,

Greg

[leptiprince]

An inexhaustible subject I'm doing my own derivatives Me-262 and much more projects and ideas on my website http://www.lhirondelle-me262.eu/

Happy Modelling

[ericr]

Something I found online - cool!

I like that image ... I built a pair of hybrids, symmetrically, around this shark idea ...





Eric

[ericr]

An inexhaustible subject I'm doing my own derivatives Me-262 and much more projects and ideas on my website http://www.lhirondelle-me262.eu/

Happy Modelling

I love the floatplane version!
I tried a floatplane derivative too, some time back, of the glass-nosed version :

[NARSES2]

Swedish torpedo floatplane is fantastic  and I love the captured nightfighter

[rickshaw]

Swedish torpedo floatplane is fantastic  and I love the captured nightfighter

Even more interesting is that it appear to have been captured by SEAC AITU (Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit), so that means in Burma/Malaya/Singapore/Indonesia/Vietnam...

[NARSES2]

Swedish torpedo floatplane is fantastic  and I love the captured nightfighter

Even more interesting is that it appear to have been captured by SEAC AITU (Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit), so that means in Burma/Malaya/Singapore/Indonesia/Vietnam...

Yup, it was used to try and defend Haiphong (forgive spelling) against all those nocturnal Lancs and Lincs