I am new in this forum , from north Germany, age 57 and re - start modelling two years ago . This is just a first try to post some pics of my work .
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Welcome aboard!
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Welcome aboard. Interesting build, can you provide more details about it?
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Welcome to the forums Gerrit. Nice build … the beginning of an early X wing …
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There’s more than a hint of Me 262 there…
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With a F-100 nose and x-wing inspired wing layout. Hence the interest.
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Willkommen in der Kitmaker Familie, Gerrit! 
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Welcome to the forum!
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Herzlich wilkommen Gerrit!
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Welcome very interesting build
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Welcome on the forum.
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Thank you all very much for the welcoming. I restart working on Modeling with a lot of 262 conversions, and one of them is reversing the direction. Also it is very interesting to widen the fuselage ( or in reverse make it smaller ) .
In this example a straight piece of plastic sheet is inserted, works very fine for me an will create a big cockpit . The intake at the front is always a bit difficult, mistakes at this place are very good visible later .
I give you some pictures of the build, maybe I start a complete thread about if I find time and the pix . The modell was made last summer, and I had to clean up the mobile phone which I use for photography.
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After the fuselage is ready dried and sanded, the wings should come in their place . A good way for me to fit them as tight as possible is this . A piece of sanding paper fixed on one side and the wing base moved carefully on that . At the glueing job I look to get the styrene soft melted to weld the parts real strong together . Revell contacta , applied for 5 minutes on both sides works very good for that .
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Very clever and great use of other parts from kits 
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And a look at the crew . First I started with another canopy which fit perfect , unfortunately I lost that part , hidden VERY GOOD in a box . So a friend gifted me a Lancaster part to finish that build . And as it is right after that the original part came to daylight again. I just ordered six new 262 kits to build some more ( around 10 are finished last year ) . I work real fast and my skills in painting are not top of the line , but for me it’s okay as it is .
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Thx , but there are only two pieces from other kits used here …
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Apparently not.
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All what I do is near whatifs or kitbashing, and I am not shure where to show them here ?
Please give me a suggestion about a Dieselpunk Doublewing Bomber from Japan around 1920 …
is it under science fiction or simple in the plane category ?
And a lot of „futurerized „ Me 262 versions , flying tanks , all nothing that real was .
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I always found the AT-ST-like walkers with tank turrets interesting.
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Some of the forum staff will probably chime in regarding categories.
In the meantime, have a look at Sci-Fi and Alternative History Campaign. Your models would fit right in.
Welcome to the forum.
Cheers,
Colin
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