BlrwestSiR

Ernie, I'll try to scen them tomorrow for you. I'll see what else I can find for you.

Now for someone to build it that way. It certainly would look cool.

Here's a pic of the instructions for German belts. The drawings below show the layout of the belts from a sideview so you can see which way they thread through the buckles. The top one is the shoulder belts, the bottom ones are for the lap belts.

Well, the Beat is a convertible too so that's good to know.

Nicely built and painted M60 Ralph. Glad to hear it goes together fairly well. I have the same kit but with the dozer blade in the stash. Carl

I made up a set of seatbelts since I didn't want to use the kit decals. These are HGW belts but I used the Wako instructions for threading them together. HGW sometimes cheats and doesn't actually have you thread the belts through the buckles the way they're done in real life. I find that a bit silly so I just do them the way they're supposed to be. Either those done, I installed the cockpit tub into the fuselage. Lastly, I started assembling the main wing. The trailing edge flaps will go in after as this way I can get a better join along the rear of the wing.

Thanks Rob! You should post them in the walk around section. That way others can find them if they need them.

Thanks Scott. It's going to be fun. We're trying to figure what happens in a couple more years when it's time for a driver's license. I've joked we'll send him for his driving test in my '91 Beat. I haven't come across anything that says the car you do your exam in can't be right hand drive...

Fuselage interior looks good Ernie. I see you didn't bother with the cabin heater. Something that probably wasn't needed in the South Pacific.

Here's the text from the Schiffer book: Cont'd Note the last sentence which says the recognition system was disconnected on B-25Js. I wonder if this would apply to the H as well and would explain why they don't show in pics.

I'm out at the moment but I'll heck my references when I get back and see if I can find anything.

Our oldest became a teenager today so I didn't get much done as we had family over to celebrate. The brisket turned out nice, just a couple slices left so that's good. As a result, I didn't get to spend much time on the 262. I did get the nose cowlings on though. The smaller one required some trimming of the bulkhead to fit properly. You can see the cut back edges here. Then it was glued on too and now to let them dry.

Man, talk about going to extreme lengths to keep an eye on your stash. Maybe if you get her a small bell to ring when she needs something you can build up some brownie points for if something does arrives.

A nice assortment of items there Rob. Always nice to catch up with friends and family.

My vote would be the Do-335. I considered that one as well before settling on the 262.

Looking good.

I get the other Lancaster flying over our house on a regular basis. CWHM is a little over an hour from us so they fly regularly around the Golden Horseshoe.

Not enough windows broke and a Mi-24 didn't fall out of the sky when it passed.

So the Me262 suffers from open panel syndrome. The gun bay cover and engine cowlings are meant to be displayed open. If you look closely at the built model on the box the engine cowls are proud of the engine pods. Either that or they're the little seen up armoured version with 2" armour plate for cowlings. That being said, with some tweaking and lots of test fitting, they can be made to fit reasonably well. The fit will improved further once they're glued in place. While I worked on the fit, i decided it was best to add the nose weight to make sure I didn't create any interference issues. I also finally started painting the seats. I'll need to get those in before I install the cockpit.

Lots of work in places. Not something I'd expected from a recent kit release.

They look like old fashioned milk crates...

After unwrapping the patient, the cockpit looks ok. Next up, I fitted the ammo chutes to the fuselage halves. Then I added the Mk108 cannon to the topside of the nose gear bay. I removed the barrels for the outer pair as these will get replaced with much longer MG151 barrels. Since I'm not having the gun bay open, the breech is irrelevant and more just to hold the barrels in place. The inner pair of Mk108 barrels were drilled out in case anything is visible. Doing a test fit of the fuselage halves and nose bay, I noticed that the gear bay sides needed to be chamfered in order to fit. You can see the bare plastic where I sanded the sides. With that done, I glued the fuselage halves together.

I hope so John!

Just a slight size variance.

A couple packages arrived today. First one was from BNA. Intake screens for my Su-33, zimmeritt for a RFM Sturmtiger, and antennae for an Achilles. The second one was from Sprue Bros courtesy of Ernie. I took a quick peek in the box and it's stunning which is to be expected from ZM. Thanks again Ernie and the rest of the LSM staff!