Pauke! Pauke! – NIGHTFIGHTER! Me 262 B-1a/U1 Red 12 | Part 2

WIP: Landing gear in the making.

Tires are resin replacements.

Front landing gear. I added break line detail from scratch.

Black 13 – That was to be expected! | GALLERY

Impressions of finished model and diorama

 

Pauke! Pauke! – NIGHTFIGHTER! Me 262 B-1a/U1 Red 12 | Part 1

Dry fitting the cockpit tub into the fuselage.
Interior was upgrade with Eduard PE set #32893.
Cockpit detail is soft and restricted,
so PE is a good way to upgrade
the front and back office!

Eduard´s PE parts came out quite nicely.
I used RAL 7024 for RLM 66 from Zeropaints.

Leather seat backrest was done with fast drying
Griffin Alkyd oils from Winsor & Newton.

Kit quality is a bit ambivalent: with careful cleaning
fit can be good. But the nose panels fit horribly.
Surface details are finely engraved and
airframe shape looks good to me.

Lots of sanding and putty required.
Rescribing panel lines is also necessary.

Junkers D.1 | Wingnut Wings 1/32nd scale | Part 7

Added the exhaust pipe finished with pigments
and washes.

Airbrushed some dirt, streaks and fumes with
Tamiya´s redbrown and flat black.

Exhaust fumes were also airbrushed with thinned
acrylics from Tamiya.

More weathering done by airbrush.

Junkers D.1 | Wingnut Wings 1/32nd scale | Part 6

Weathered engine cowling. Exhaust is still missing.

Left engine cowling. Some final toughes missing!

Left upper wing with airbrushed Balkenkreuz.

Weatherd underside.

Weathering almost done ...

Pale blue undercoat with thin white top coat.

White tail plane still needs some weathering!

Köf 3 | Gauge 0 Diesel locomotive

Hi,

a friend of mine asked me to weather a Köf3 diesel locomotive which was damaged during a workshop fire. I tried to clean the model as good as possible and then started weathering it using washes and stains. Here you go:

Junkers D.1 | Wingnut Wings 1/32nd scale | Part 5

Proof of concept: I sprayed the complete model
with a mix of thinners and hairspray adjusted to work
with the lacquers used on the model.

Dark areas are still wet of rinsing the model
under the shower. This gives an idea of the original shades.
This is the first time use on a model after a
few years of empiric research – and failures!
Erhh.. happy little accidents! (Love you, Bob Ross!)

The dried model shows the bleached finish to advantage.
Now the mechanical part of the physicochemical weathering
can begin :-)

Junkers D.1 | Wingnut Wings 1/32nd scale | Part 4

Working on the wheels. Added mud and dirt
made of pigments and fixer.

Test of my new weathering technique: Base colors are a mix of browns
from Zero Paint RAL 8017 and Tamiya XF-64. In the picture this color is the dark shade. Then a coat of hairspray was applied for 30 sec. Rinse with water. Chemical reaction leads the light shade seen above. This can be mechanically removed with wooden chisels, stiff brushes etc.

Dry fitting of subassemblies. All markings are airbrushed.

Camouflage was sprayed using card board templates
to achieve a ragged color seperation.

Junkers D.1 | Wingnut Wings 1/32nd scale | Part 3

Started to paint and weather the rim covers.
Basecoat is RAL 7003 from ZERO PAINTS.
Added Tamiya XF-71 and XF-57 for a thin top coat.
Added a wet coat of hair spray for some 30 secs.
This will weather the paintjob chemically!
Then rinsed the parts with warm water.
Let dry. Added a first wash and some streaking.

Use wooden sticks, pins etc. to partially remove
the now bleached top coat. Add washes and streaking.
Dirt and dust will follow once the rubber tires
has been painted.

Junkers D.1 | Wingnut Wings 1/32nd scale | Part 2

I added the wings and started to work
on the landing gear.

Resin pilot figure will be part of a small diorama.

Wing root detail showing the corrugated dural construction
of the Junkers to advantage. Although fit is very good
careful clean-up work along the seams is mandatory.

WIP: Wooden Axial propeller made from laminated veneer.