JeroenPeters

I could not help myself. Had this Radu Brinzan conversion in the drawer for years. Suddenly whipped out a Me262 kit and sawed off the nose. The resin nose is a pretty good fit. Some boiling water to make it fit perfectly.

Managed to buy another signature from Ron Pottinger. Might fit better in the final set up.

Turns out the same photo is in the Wingleader book!

Finally!!! from the start i knew i wanted to make Ron Pottinger’s mount. He downed a few v1’s after he climbed up from infantry to the ranks of RAF pilot. He was shot down over Germany at the end of the war and taken POW. Grew to be very old, wrote a book and i have his signed photo. I knew i had seen a photo of his plane at Volkel (the Netherlands) somewhere. Searched for months. Then found it in a book i have on loan from Cees! Had it on my desk all this time. Goes to show Google isnt always your best friend.

Almost nothing. Took a bit from the outside of the wheelbays. Had to thin some plastic in order to get the resin bulkhead to fit nicely though

Dryfitting the engine. So far so good. Cees warned me for gulwings if the pit and fuse pushed the wings apart. You see this often with this model turning it into a Stuka. Glad that after a lot of sanding this is averted.

This is by no means shake and bake. A week of sanding, fitting and more sanding got to to a decent fit between fuse and wings.

The photo etch flap under the armament bay. To obtain upper detail i’ll need to seriously thin the resin upper part.

Fitting, sanding and fitting. Armament bay is glued into position.

Started work on the PE flaps

Inserted one of the resin CMK gunports.

Getting a better and better fit. Top left wing is glued on. The other will be tricky.

Getting there. A bit more sanding on the wheelbay sides to get the fuselage to fit.

Painted the armament bay. Just because it’s impossible to do later. Now to the rear of this bay. It needs to be lower Photo etch part and upper cmk resin. This will require a lot of modification. We’ll see…

Lovely! Have this kit too in the stash with all the goodies. AND want to build Falck's mount as well. I have several autographs of him, signed photo's and even a hand written letter in which he writes to a pilot he shot down once. Will follow this!

This is where I need to pay attention. The cmk armament set was not designed to go with the eduard flaps. The rear of the armament set is also modelled in the pe flap. So either cut that section from the flap or sand down the bottom resin detail and join the two. Tricky

Added a shim to the front of the pit.

First work on the armament bay

Spent the day cutting and sanding the armament bay and flaps. Most work goes into the thinning of the plastic around the edges.

Preparing to close the fuselage. Some weird issues bit nothing i can’t fix. Luckily. It’s Special Hobby and not Tamiya. Just need to keep that in mind. Opened another small hatch to give room to the filler cap of the red small tank on the right side, situated below the fuel tank. Can’t remember what it was for.

I have been warned by Cees Broere and am expecting a battle :))

Basic colours are on the oil tank (interior green) and self healing fuel tank (brown. Should be black, but brown is more interesting in the overall scheme i think.)

The cage is closed

Seat installed. the HGW seatbelts in this case were no treat. Bad fit of buckles, not matching instructions to actual parts. Made them work with spare Luftwaffe buckles.