A couple of Luftwaffe rockets
Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 12:40 pmHi 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.
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.
