Thanks Nigel, hope I can do them more frequently in the future!

Very kind, I hope so. Got some proper projects in mind that will need half decent skills to achieve...

Cheers marra!

Problem is Bob, there are going to be two more at least, one with a 'V'-tail and one with the cockpit in the fin like the Lippisch ramjet fighter. Would be an interesting diorama - a fictional "Berlin Air Show" of 1946 with a range of these variants lined up...

@@garys_stuff Thanks Gary, it looks like I'm going to need a bigger " piggy bank". What an excellent idea for a German Air show. So many models so little time, See you on the next video, Bob

Me too. I also love the what if stealth planes.

Best acrylics I've used so far. The colour density with 1 part thinner to 2 parts paint is remarkable.

@@garys_stuff Thanks, I will give that ratio a spray, hopefully they arrive tomorrow and first outing should be on the Airfix Swift

I’m very interested in the Atom paints and look forward to your review on them

Thanks mate!

I assume that's why the tail sections are separate and you could put a fairing over the existing cockpit cut-out. Nice planning!

I am building the Antares resin conversion using the v tail and the 262 Nachtjager as a base

Also got an Antares crescent wing conversion for the Arado Nichtingal

E3, erprobungs gruppe drei ?

@@garys_stuff They definitely planned well. I also like the way they have their locating tabs. They are clear of any detail on the kit and there is no play meaning parts are easy to line up. For a kit maker I'd never bought from before they certainly show they are high quality with this kit.

You do get rid of a lot of form drag by burying the engines, although there could be a small efficiency loss with longer inlets. Being so close to the fuselage they are not in "free stream" air but are affected by the flow around the fuselage. That said, they worked OK on the Comet/Nimrod, the Vulcan, Victor, etc., etc. I suspect that by the time it had flown there would have been a small fence between the inlet and the fuselage to counter any effect of this.

I wouldn't have liked to try to land this - it would have been a bit fast and would probably have needed a drag chute because towards the end of the war the available airfields were relatively small. Likewise I suspect some external rocket assistance for take-off. Glad you like the paint & products list, I'll try to do this with all my builds in future.

@@garys_stuff I'm building now the Focke Wulf Triebfubel nightfighter (for miniart) also not easy landing with that plane

@@user-vp6os5kj4t think I have one of those - maybe not the MiniArt one though. Also the Focke Wulf Ta-183 and something else - an Arado dive bomber thing with a prone pilot.

Also I'm not sure what the increase in absolute speed would have been, the critical Mach number might have been slightly higher with the wing sweep but would it have had any kind of manoeuvrability? I suspect it was aimed at the kind of hit and run tactics of the Me163 etc. Fuel supply and lack of strategic materials were the death knell of these amazing designs.

Yes, a classic case of too little, too late. But, what a design! Had that got into the air, it might have indeed faced allied jet types but none of them would have been as advanced as this. Vampires, Meteors, F-80s and, um, P-59 Airacomets 🤭 - All possessing straight wing technology. Allied swept wings only came into existence post war with captured German technical data. The V-Bombers owe their existence to German aeronautical know how. Look at the air intakes of this Messerschmitt. Hmm, the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan not similar at all, are they? I reckon had this 262 variant and other similar German designs come into play in sufficient numbers and were flown by experienced pilots, it would have wiped the floor with anything the Allies had. Painful for some to swallow, I know. Just mo.

A nice build Gary. That looks like a good kit. Thanks.

It's some PVC stuff I got off Amazon, 3mm wide... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CKKD95MY?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

@@garys_stuff Thanks Gary

Just a bit of white tack left over from it being mounted on a bit of wood for painting. It's not visible in the finished product!

@@garys_stuff Thanks Gary!

Not sure that Germany was too bothered trying to capture the world air speed record by 1944/5... but with decent engines I think it likely the 262 could have been very fast indeed. The Meteor had a critical Mach number of about 0.82, pretty sure the 262 was higher. Winkle Brown thought the 262 one of the very best fighters of the war.

@@garys_stuff Gary, the Messerschmidt team would have been keen and salivating for some sort of 'absolute speed record' but did not even try because there were NO 'decent engines' . You may as well say 'a Sopwith Camel with a rocket could have ....". Winkle was full of superlatives - and other things to say, fact is the 262 had hardly ANY combat experience and so wa NOT the best fighter of the war, the Spitfire and Mustang were. .

@@uingaeoc3905 Winkle very much admired the Mustang, and later the F-86. He was one of the best test pilots ever to fly and, as a combat pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, knew what he was talking about. And he flew the 262 from those perspectives. A Camel with rockets? Well the wings would fold so it wouldn't go fast. But whatever, we each have our opinions.

The me262 actually entered service shortly before the Meteor but it's academic because the main factor was the 262 saw proper combat duty whereas the meteors was very limited as the allied war effort was already centered around the piston fighter and they didnt want the momentum disrupted.

@ricardoroberto7054 That is incorrect. The 262 was distributed to squadrons but it did not see combat service until October 44 whereas the Meteors where in combat duties in June. The Meteor did not do intercepts in Europe, it did these over England on V1 chases, it then did ground attack sorties in Europe. that is 'proper combat duties'. The Axis was centred on piston fighter types overwhelmingly, look at the numbers, and the 262 was working up for months and only then used used in intercepts of the RAF and USAAF bombing raids. This is not 'academic'; check the timeline of service duties for both types.