A couple of Luftwaffe rockets

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A couple of Luftwaffe rockets

Postby AndrewDoppel » Fri Jul 24, 2015 12:40 pm

Hi guys,

Yesterday and the day before were days off for me which gave me the opportunity to get out into the shed and actually finish another couple of kits. One of them (the Tamiya 1/48 V1) I bought at Expo this year for about $5 as just something to kick the mojo off again after Expo and the other (1/32 Meng Me-163 Komet) I bought for a mate from Expo last year (2014) and it had been languishing on the shelf of doom for a while so decided to knock them over and get them done and out of the way. The V1 came with a 1/48 MPM? Fi-103 (manned V1) in the box as an extra which I will look at one day. Both are built straight from the box and were fun to build. The Meng kit has absolutely fantastic detail but I had some issues fitting the engine and keeping it where it should be which ultimately affected the fitting of the port wing and the engine covers. I found these engine parts very finicky and if I had my time again would omit them and just join the two fuselage parts together. The instructions say that the tail should just slide on and off but because of the engine issues this isn't to be. I hope you like them.


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Re: A couple of Luftwaffe rockets

Postby Cap'n Wannabe » Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:28 pm

That's an awful lot of rockets there, Andrew!
Great work on them both :D
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Re: A couple of Luftwaffe rockets

Postby Adam the Akrodude » Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:46 pm

Fab to see these! What happened with the posts??????????

I've the Meng kit to build one day - some time well after the 262 I'm building. Looks a great kit. Any snags or issues to watch for? I've read the wing/fuselage interface is a bit of a pain - was it a bother for you?

Great work mate!

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Re: A couple of Luftwaffe rockets

Postby DesTROYer » Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:02 pm

Cap'n Wannabe wrote:That's an awful lot of rockets there, Andrew!
Great work on them both :D


Agreed, it's like an explosion at a rocket factory of posts. :)

Great work as usual Andrew.
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Re: A couple of Luftwaffe rockets

Postby RHB785 » Sat Jul 25, 2015 7:19 am

Good grief Andrew. What happened here? Trying out the new multi post feature?

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Re: A couple of Luftwaffe rockets

Postby hrtpaul » Sat Jul 25, 2015 8:36 am

Great work mate. They look awesome :)
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Re: A couple of Luftwaffe rockets

Postby tor lives » Sat Jul 25, 2015 9:24 am

Another couple of beauties from our favourite policeman. Very nicely done indeed.
We are not sure what created the multiple posts but, with Andrew's permission, I have deleted the duplicated posts.
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Re: A couple of Luftwaffe rockets

Postby AndrewDoppel » Sat Jul 25, 2015 11:36 am

Cheers guys. Don't know why the multiple posts but I have been having issues posting to the site.

Adam, I had real issues trying to get the port wing in, and I think it has something to do with the engine as I struggled to keep this straight and attached to the fire wall.
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