Luft46's Blog

More in sorrow than anger the Dragon He162 has been binned. I looked at it today after doing more work on it and realised just about no one component either fitted properly or didn’t require some work to get it up to standard. I’m not even going to discuss the mess that is the u/c. I’d rather be doing something that is at least not frustrating.

Onto some railway modelling and as I want to change one small component to reduce cleanup I am concentrating on parts clean up today.

The 12 brake lines that connects the right and left hand side are a simple thin piece of straight plastic that has four sprue attachment points so I’m going to replace this with some plastic rod. Unfortunately what I have is not in the Goldilocks zone so off to Hobbyco on Tuesday day 🙂

One of those weeks where barely any motivation exists. Will be trying to fight the Dragon He 162 again today.

Hobbyco must have got someone with some vague knowledge of marketing. This week they had a few old Hase kits with 50% off as well as the same on Ammo by Mig paints and weathering stuff. This was actually a genuine 50% off so I bought a few. See below.

Also below is a comparison between Vallejos and Migs Light Slimy Grime colours. Even to my eye they look very different. The Mig jar is on the left in both photos.

Ok so WP has found a new way to mess me up. I hate when they improve ” my experience “.

Lots of rain on the weekend so with high humidity it was useless to airbrush. Dug out this Dragon kit and typically it looks nice but assembly is a pig.

The undercarriage is an octopuses delight .Only  the right hand side was completed before frustration at the fiddly assembly set in.

The major problem with the kit is the green tinted canopy. Well in 1947 the Italians in North Africa were flying the He 162 after the Luftwaffe generously handed them over. Trying to get some relief from the sun they tried tinting the windscreen.

So there. A justification for Dragons stuff up. Colour scheme will be a simple green over grey underside.

Below is progress so far. Not much as it was nicer inside finishing off the Panzer Wrecks in Berlin book.