Nice work on those, and yes, it’s the second with the nose turret that I’ll be building. There is another version without the nose turret or night-fighter equipment too. Mine is quite an age, don’t think Revell have made this for a few years. Lets be honest though, as an aircraft design, it doesn’t conform to that old saying if it looks right, it flies right. The Me262, that looks right, the Gloster Meteor, that looks right, this, well, it looks like they just decided to keep adding and adding guns to it and it ended up what I can only politely describe as portly Still, you’ve given me a lot to work with there, thanks again, and once more, it is a nice kit with some great detail. Talking of which, and in a totally different direction, I was looking for another kit earlier and the old MPC kit of the starship Cygnus from the film The Black Hole caught my eye. I bought it years ago, for a pretty good price, (the box isn’t great but the kit is fine) and have never gotten round to building it. At 24" long it’s a bit of a task to fit into the sci-fi room, but I’d wanted it since the film was released and I saw one in a shop window, all built and painted and looking spectacular. Just glad I didn’t wait to buy one until now, they’re costing a fortune on ebay.
I don’t know if this happens to many people, but when I begin to paint a camouflage scheme over a base coat of paint, I’m a tad uncertain. It’s not when I’m following the painting instructions supplied with the model, but when it comes to something which isn’t on a diagram, or that I have a fixed idea of in my head, (for what that’s worth), when I have a kind of idea that basically takes shape as I paint. I was the same when I had a blank canvas in front of me, when I used to paint a portrait or scene, something about just creating from nothing. Weird I know, just wanted to put that out there. Anyway, enough waffling on. After looking at the provided schemes, the books I use sometimes, Secret Projects of WW2, (German Bombers) this time and a few other WW2 German aircraft, I decided to use a bit from all of them and come up with a scheme for the E555 that looks about right. Yes, I’ll be adding more colour to the twin fins and engine mouths, maybe a stripe on each wing, (maybe) but this is essentially it.
I for one, would not able to do that! Stunning!
Cheers, it’s just a matter of starting off at the nose and working back in random shapes with a relatively small brush. It does help to have a good base coat to work on top of, the flat colour makes all the difference, but I’m glad you like it
Just a short note with a few photos, painting all but complete with yellow fin flashes, red warning stripes around the engines and the black-ish outside of the exhausts. I masked up the stripes on the wings then remembered there were actual decals with the kit, (and now you’ll have a hint at why I chose the moniker old-fool…) so now it’s just the decalsm adding on all the breakables and a bit of weathering and that’s another out of the way. It only took, what, nearly twenty years since I bought it
Very cool!
Cheers, had a very short night so all I got to do was to cut up the decals sheet. A couple of notable exceptions, but i always have a sheet of those to add to the tails of WW2 German aircraft.
Drag another one off the list, apart from the weathering, after nearly twenty years in the box, where I moved house in between, and since Revell have yet again reissued this kit. Pretty interesting build, and while there are plenty of fighters in the what-if category, not that many bombers. As I mentioned previously, a photo of the two Haunebu with the finished E555, just for size comparison, all in 1/72. I know, the Haunebu II really is quite a size.