Scalemates Schwalbe Group build 2021

Cuajete
Me 2! 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Me 3! 👍

Stefan Schacht
Me 4! 🙂

Daniel Klink
Welcome Mates, and take your seats 👍

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Following

Patryk S.
Following also!

Spanjaard
me too!

Petr Lehnert
I need to watch this as well.

Oliver Zwiener
I am watching , too 🙂

Guy Rump
Following as well 🙂

Neil Patrick
Great comparison idea. I'm following too.

Daniel Klink
Welcome Mates and nice to have you here
It will start with the Revell kit skill level upwards to the J9N finally

Skyhiker
I am assuming that the smaller one is the Kikka? Please add explanations to the photos.

HSC1932
This is so cool, following.

Slavo Hazucha
Is this the actual group build? 😄 or a group build within a group build?

In any case, watching! 👍

Jim J
Pulling up a chair...

Daniel Klink
@wlcome mates and i hope you will enjoy this
@skywalker i named them already 🙂 you see the names lefthand of the fuselagehalves.
and yes the kikka is the Bonsai Schwalbe 🙂
@Slavo second 🙂 Sometimes i don't know what i'm doing 🙂

Daniel Klink
@Lukasz exactly 🙂
STarted with the Revell i have to admit , i expected it to go together a bit schwiftier🙂

Jan Peters
It's a start🙂

Daniel Klink
Yap and the fit of the Quickboost turbine is quiet good👍

John Wilkes
I tossed together an Airfix kit a couple of decades ago. This has been my favourite aeroplane of all time. It was a good offensive platform like the mosquito, only a hundred or so knots faster.

Jan Peters
The quickboost engine is a beauriful casting, I have one in my stash too, for my Revell a3. Did you open the landing gear bay on this one?

Daniel Klink
Welcome John, yes they were both kind of a benchmark as weapon platforms.
@Jan, yao it is, unluckily the Canpoy Part by Revell is not or not anymore. Unusable 🙁 pics 7,8
The tool cannot lie about its age anymore...
No I will not open the gearbay...Iam a bit pissed now cause of the canopy part...
So just forget about the built order by skill increasing with each kit🙂

Spanjaard
maybe some vacuform replacement? Me 262A (Pavla Models V 72-34, 1:72)

Daniel Klink
Hi SPanjaard, welcome and thanks mate.. I already got vac-canopies by Falcon, but i'd better did dryfit before, and am a bit angry about myself

Skyhiker
I had the same problem with the Revell canopy not fitting well. As I recall it was thinner on one side than the other.

Spanjaard
i need to check my two revell ones... probably similar issues.

Daniel Klink
@Skywalker yap now i find many reports about the canopy issue and that the main gear legs are too long with the revell kit.
@Spanjaard..yap do it before the start 🙂

Spanjaard
will do, thanks!

Daniel Klink
So this is my choice - the white 19 (front right in the pic)
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Jan Peters
Yes, the canopies of the Revell kits are ridiculously bad. A shame really, as it isn't too bad as a whole.

Spanjaard
i just checked my two 262 from Revell... cockpit is basically crap for one, and i seem to have lost the decals for the other ... well, both can be resolved.

Neil Patrick
I like white 19 as a choice. It's a Kommando Nowotny aircraft I think if the photo date is Dec 44 as EJG2 was disbanded in Sept and its planes passed to Nowotny. The tailfin with its stencilled camo on an almost white version of 76 is someting I have wanted to try and reproduce, but not got round to yet. I think some say these tailfins were trials of a version made from wood? I'm sure someone here knows more?

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
My Revell 262 has a good canopy hurrahhhh !!!!
Komando Nowotny ,,, good choice ,,, I like how the tail was painted.
Long time ago I built the Nowotny plane white 8 from the Hasegawa kit ... brush painted
Some old Luftwaffe models | Album by yuri

Cuajete
Daniel, I'm sorry that luck is not on your side with the Revell canopy as well as the Lightning canopy. I hope the one from Falcon solves the Revell's problem. Quickboost's engine looks great!

Daniel Klink
@neil yap some of them were equipped in preparation fo the never built C-version.
@Julian.. i feel lucky for you 🙂
@Cuajete i can tell you it does no because i shreddered it 🙁
@Roland yes too bad it only exists for Revell and Hasegawa

Daniel Klink
The corpus is mostly finished, now waiting fo the Canopy replacement and next step is drilling the holes for the guns

David Januska
Interesting project, I´m looking forward for the results and final comparison. I´ve got just one from Academy I hope it will not be the worst 🙁. Concernig Revell canopies I replace them with vacu every time I can find some vacu for them.

Alec K
Nice progress Daniel, I'll take a seat. I did the Revell two-seater as a Avia Cs-92, as I recall it was pretty good 👍

Greg Baker
Oh, let me see!

Daniel Klink
Welcome David, Alec and Greg... glad to have you around mates 👍
So now you see the Academy kit started . Great stuff

Greg Baker
I'm just about to start the Academy kit too... watching closely.

Jan Peters
I have build the academy kit earlier as a c1 heimatschutzer, and really liked it. Looking forward to see more progress

Erik De Smet
Following the real ones...

Juergen Klinglhuber
participating the show....

James C
Looking good Daniel👍

Cuajete
👍

Daniel Klink
Thank you mates and welcome.. i decided for the Machine of Heinz Bär White 14
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@Greg: Go for it 👍

Jan Peters
Nice subject 🙂

Slavo Hazucha
This is definitely going faster than the development of the real project!😉

And some lovely stuff to see en-route 👍 - that pit is quite a show in 72-scale

Greg Baker
I'm two steps behind you on the Academy kit. Handy spot for me. Now I can use your cockpit as an example!

Łukasz Gliński
The Academy kit seems to look better than the Airfix, which is kind of surprise to me. Cockpit in particular. Is it just me or?😉
Pity they don't make the double-seater.

Daniel Klink
Thank you mates for your kind words, and yes Slavo because my plans are for a fighter only🙂
@greg looking forward to your Interpretation of it 👍
@ Lukasz the academy pit is a bit less detailed but more crisp and better to work with..
@Jan thanks mate, but iam a bit confused and not sure if Bär really flew the white 17.

Daniel Klink
So already started the AZ/SM built of the J9N ..horrible and worse than the twoseater a later re-release I assume🙁

Jan Peters
Ok, I have one in my stash, so I'm in for some nasty work then? What are the main problems with the J9?

Jan Peters
Didn't Bär fly red 13 btw?

Daniel Klink
Hi mate! The details are muggy and not crisp at all! But the biggest issue are the somewhat bulky locator pins and the different thickness of the wings etc
Much cleaning material takeaway and rescribing is necessary to get the parts together!
Thank god i kept the fuselage halves of the nightfighter from an earlier release! They are much better!

Daniel Klink
Academy names vers 2 as Flown by Heinz Bär!

HSC1932
What is your ranking for the best to worst kits so far?

Jan Peters
Sounds like a typical limited run kit to me, these always need extra work to get a good result.

Daniel Klink
Hm compared to Valom or Special Hobby this is really much worse! More like the early Pavla kits!

Jan Peters
I will have a look at the one in my stash, might build it as well for the gb 🙂

Daniel Klink
Great👍

Daniel Klink
Academy pit is ready 👍

Daniel Klink
Group pic From above, Revell, Azmodel and Academy

Jan Peters
Nice trio

Greg Baker
Now that I've tried my own hand at the Academy cockpit, I'm back here checking out how a true master handles it. More impressive than ever!

Cuajete
That trio looks great, Daniel!
The Academy's Kit looks bigger than Revell's. Is it for the perspective in the pic or is it really greater?

Guy Rump
Looking good Daniel, ditto from @Cuajete, is the Academy bigger than Revell?

Daniel Klink
Hi Mates, Thanky you and too much blessing and honor Greg but sounds like a lovely melody in my ears.Thanky mate 👍
@Cuajete and Guy Thank you and no it is a perspective issue. see latest pic
The main mistake Acadamy (left one) made was to bulge the middle of the plane too much.
The tail is equal rather a little bit thinner than Revells but cockpit section onwards it is getting eggy.. 🙂

Cuajete
Thx, Daniel 👍.

Łukasz Gliński
I like the Airfix shape more, despite the damn nacelles. Thanks for the comaprison pic. The best set would be Airfix fuselage with Academy's nacelles😉

Alec K
I wonder how the Hasegawa interpretation compares?

Jorge Ferreira
I think you will like to watch this before moving on Youtube Video at least after minute 18 watch how the slats should be positioned. Good work.

Daniel Klink
Thank you Jorge👍 veryhelpul and interesting

Daniel Klink
That Quickboost Jumo 004B looks really cool. An it is not expensie at all ..
A liitle bit of detailpainiing and drybrushing and it will make further improvement i assume

Guillaume Blanchet
Great progress Daniel!

Guy Rump
Progressing well and fast Daniel 🙂

Juergen Klinglhuber
I'm will take your engine & detailing as my guideline - I have also planned to show the engine opened,...
following your quadruplet with interest...great!

Daniel Klink
Hi Guuilleaume, Guy and Juergen..many thanks for your kind words and interest.
But i am close to explode...
Who the F+ck at Airfix engineered those nacelles to win mounting?
That is ridiculous and i am somewhat willing to throw the whole thing into the trash.
I read about but could not imagine it that bad and misshaped.
Sorry that is really a big issue for a modern kit at this price.

Łukasz Gliński
It is indeed 😄 Try to cut it a bit from the inside and bend upwards the top end of the front part. Unless you have glued it already😉

Jan Peters
The fit of the airfix kit is indeed it's biggest let down.

Erik De Smet
You can't even build a decent egg plane with it , when the engines do not fit (•‿•)

Daniel Klink
Hi Mates,
thank you for the support.
Finally a result not able doing this much better..
The gaps between the wings and fuselage are no problem it is not glued yet.

Jan Peters
There is a solution for everything🙂
Nice comparison shot, it is obvious the academy kit is not quite true to form.

Skyhiker
Daniel, which kit is the best so far?

Daniel Klink
@Jan yap but in terms of fit and building fun it is good.
@Skywalker
Hm my personal order in terms of quality, fit and fun would look like
1. Academy 2. Revell 3. Airfix
in terms of shape and correctness:
1. Airfix 2. Revell 3. Academy
For me the first category is much more important so i would say Academy is the winner so far

Cuajete
And me buying an Airfix thinking it would be the best, already having an Academy (crying).
All kits looks fantastic, Daniel. Good job so far! 👍
It amazes me how small and different the Kikka is, compared to the Me-262s. Thanks for those comparison pics 🙂

Jan Peters
The airfix isn't that bad, but it should have been more detailed.
It has some great detail in the cockpit, yet misses the armoured glass and the canopy release bars. The lack of fine details like the Revell kit do have makes the airfix kit a bit toylike by comparison.
Overall the fit is decent, yet the nacelles are a pain in the *.
I have the sturmvogel and nightfighter kits in my stash, but I now know what to expect 🙂

Daniel Klink
Not that bad but for the newest Release it is the only one that lacks of the seatbelts for example.
And the nacelle mounting is a really big issue for a mainstreamproducer that does not have experts as a target group. 🙂 And i cant imagine how no one of the quality control could have missed that failure...
The fuselage halves fits superbly and the wings itself too that is correct.

And without the nacelle thing this could have been a real cool kit, and the best 262 around.
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Daniel Klink
Hi Roland thank you.. No just wanna see which swallow is the quickest 🙂

Stefan Fraundorfer
Eine Schwalbe macht noch keinen Sommer - drei hingegen vielleicht schon. Viel Spaß beim Endspurt!

Roberto Rocat
Lovely project! I'm in.

Daniel Klink
@Stefan ne eher das gegenteil war der Fall...bei den aktuellen Temepraturen.
Endspurt verzögerte sich leider auch durch einen Borrelioseschub der mich immer mal wieder erwischt.
geht aber nun weiter dank Antibiotika und Cortison.

Daniel Klink
Welcome Roberto and thank you Mate 👍

Daniel Klink
Hi Guys after a break caused by health issues (Borrelia that comes now and then without a warning),
my Doc thinks it is a souvenir of my time in the army in the mid 90s) Those creepy little bastards can sleep for decades in your body especially in ones neural system, and coul cause many types of neurological issues) But you can fight it easily with special Antibiotics. But it will never disappear if you once catched them. It is not lifethreatning though it could feel like it does. 🙂
But now it is getting better and i Started with the Airfix Swallow preshading and base colouring.

Cuajete
Take care, Daniel!

Spanjaard
take good care of yourself Daniel! glad to see you up and about 🙂

Alec K
Nice souvenir... Hope you feel better. Be glad you have a diagnosis, untreated this bug can do some serious damage.

Daniel Klink
Thank you Cuajete, Spanjaard and Alec 👍
I am somewhat experienced with it, but you are right Alec. One can get seriously ill with those little Monsters.

Daniel Klink
But btw How do you like the progress so far? 🙂

Alec K
I am actually in awe. Building several kits at a time would give me heartburn. It's looking really good man 👍

Btw, if you get bored, why not build a F4F with Lukasz and me 🙂 (yes, I know, I have not posted anything yet... but SOON)

Jan Peters
Preshading looks good to me Daniel.
And I hope you feel better, health is your most prized posesion.

Cuajete
Looking so good, Daniel 👍

bughunter
Gute Besserung! Hoffentlich gewöhnen die sich nicht an das Antibiotikum!

Roberto Rocat
Glad to hear you are ok, take care mate! ...and...nice progress!

Daniel Klink
Thank you Roland, Jan, Cuajete and Roberto👍
Yeah i am taking care of myself but my Velocity gun killed another nozzle.
Result is spitting and sprattling but no big deal to handel once the green finish is added.
This could be such a great tool with a more rigid nozzle installation.
You have to be so careful while cleaning and reassembling the cone. aargh
@Alec..still got a cage full of Swallows to handle with first 🙂
@Frank ne die Dosierung und Zusammensetzung ist unterschiedlich.
Und das ist so schwach dosiert und drängt sie ja auch nur zurück.
Man muss das auch 3 wochen nehmen

Daniel Klink
So the Kikka is ready for painting

Juergen Klinglhuber
Exited to see how all the paint jobs on your fleet will turn out....from what see already see --> 👍

Jan Peters
Your KiKa has far less filler on it than mine, indicating you did your prep work a lot better 🙂

Daniel Klink
Thank you Juergen and Jan
@Juergen it developes in the right direction yap 🙂
@Jan I had the advantage the shortly built Twoseater 🙂

akira kita
So nice jets Schwalbes and Kikka イイネ！

Patryk S.
Great work so far! The Kikka looks great! What paint did you use for the bottle green?

Daniel Klink
Thank you Akira San and welcome 👍
@Patryk thanks mate and i used the WEM Kawanishi green enamel. (not available anymore?)
ACJ10 Kawanishi Green, WEM Colourcoats Satin, Enamel, 14ml
The tone is nearly peect for 1/72 but though i thinned it 70/30 it swallowed nearly all the preshading.

Roberto Rocat
The Kikka is so nice! ...and not often seen. Bravo.

Slavo Hazucha
One through the line 👍 looking great & I think while the loss of the pre-shading may be less spectacular from the model perspective, it´s probably one-up for the actual realism! 🙂

Cuajete
Looks great!

Daniel Klink
Thank you for your nice words and comments Mates 👍
It is very close to the finish line now just a bit more washing and fading, antena etc.
@Slavo yap as far as it is possible with this kit🙂

Daniel Klink
Arghh a gust of wind decided to make a puzzle of it...🙁

Jan Peters
Oh nooo
It looks like you get to build the same model twice

Łukasz Gliński
Oh, too bad 😭

Spanjaard
that is not good... but I am sure you can restore it to its previous state😉

Daniel Klink
Hi Mates, no gear struts or anything broken... only the seat and th Fuselage from the wings has been separated ...phew 🙂

Slavo Hazucha
Hmm.... Seems Kamikaze the Divine Wind is not ready to accept your offering of the Kikka jet fighter...😉 😄

Good you put it together with reasonable "Sollbruchstellen" - seems salvageable! 👍

Greg Baker
"A gust of wind"... that's a good one. That's what I'm going to call my left elbow from now on...

Daniel Klink
hehe, yap SLavo thats the right word 👍
Think i saved it. Just have to overspray the "schweißnaht" upper wings to fuselage🙂

Daniel Klink
@Greg... LoL you absolutely got the point there 🙂

Jan Peters
Good to see it back together again

Łukasz Gliński
That's a quick recovery! 👍 In my case it would be the right elbow, but love the nomenclature 😄

Cuajete
I'm glad that Kikka has recovered from the gust of wind and has taken flight.

Juergen Klinglhuber
Nice and quick recovery - well done !!

Hanno Kleinecke
Good to see it being salvaged, I know EXACTLY how it feels to see an almost finished bird dive off the table.......
No sign of damage visible any more, good work Daniel !

Alec K
Excellent recovery 👍

Daniel Klink
Thank you ll mtes for your very kind words and compliments..
Very much appreciated. The Kikka is fully recovered now and got its own album.. 🙂
Meanwhile the Airfix A-2a is masked and readyor the green coat 🙂

Daniel Klink
And there it is applied! Gunze RLM82
Still looking a bit bride

James C
That's quite an undertaking building 4 at the same time Daniel, but top work as always mate👍

Daniel Klink
Hi James Thank you and I hope i will get them all4 to a reasonable Result 🙂
SO the engine for the revell A-1a got its 1st washing and drybrushing...
Still no sign of a new canopy by Revells Department X 🙁

Daniel Klink
Ps those deep engraved lines with the airfix kit are really not realistic at all

Łukasz Gliński
A bit true indeed, that's why I'm going to cover them with "putty"😉

James C
Nice job on that camouflage👍

Daniel Klink
Hi Lukasz, yap but i will do this for the academykit, which Fuselage panels are also much too deep.
The Me 262 Body was in fact smooth and clean like a baby popo...
It should be though it was made for min slipstream ..
@Roland yap thank you James, though i must amit it takes time to get used to work with the EVolution
and Gunze colors with such detailpainting.
My old Badger Velocity was a charm in that Discipline, but the construction o the nozzle forced me to change the tool. I so not want to spend a 100€ a year for new nozzles and needles.🙂

Martin Oostrom
Get the pressure control thingy for the Evolution, you'll love it.
I'm just glad my shop informed me today that the Airfix kit was out of stock and they replaced it with the Academy kit. Next week...
Your squadron is looking good Daniel 👍

Don Edgecomb
Ausgezeichnet Bauen! Nice review of all the kits. I have the Revell, Mpm, Trumpeter, and Airfix kits just for fun as my serious builds are the TSM versions in 1/32 (A-1a, A-1a heavy armament, A-2a, B-1a, and A-1a clear), HpH and Hobbyboss A-1a in 1/18, and a few Hasegawa and Revell each in /132. I really like the Trimaster and Dragon kits I have in 1/48. Every once in awhile I'll buy another 1/72 or 1/144 as the detail just keeps getting better if ya read the reviews to avoid the horrible messes. I was going to say cheap horrible messes but I realized that's not the case anymore. Now it's #%^$ expensive horrible pieces of Cr#p! Maybe many pieces of Cr#p because it hit the wall literally. I just read one modelers soapbox rant about HK Models B-17 kit. He couldn't believe that he spent that much money on a big kit with hardly any engine details and the cockpit was very toy like. I feel his pain as I've run into this on different kits. I read reviews like crazy. I could imagine opening one of my kits like Zoukei-Mura's Hs 129, Ho 229, or Do 335 and just finding two halves to a plane, a seat, and an Army man on a stretcher. LOL
Keep up the awesome work.
Cheers,
Don

Cuajete
Great painting job, Daniel! 👍

Daniel Klink
Thank you Mates! 👍
Washing and some flat varnish added!
Looking kind a froggy but somehow i like that green

Guy Rump
Lovely work as usual Daniel, great! 🙂

Guillaume Blanchet
Coming along very nicely.

Cuajete
Fantastic, Daniel!! One less for finish all 👍

Juergen Klinglhuber
cool 👍

Erik De Smet
You will need a hangar to show the jets together, Daniel

Rui S
Looking good, nice setup 👍

Jan Peters
Building a squadron wasn't work enough, so you decided to make a small diorama as well?🙂

Daniel Klink
Thank you very much, Guy, Guillaume, Cuajete, Juergen, Rui and Jan and Erik..
@jan Yes they will gather aroun except of the Kikka to a group photo with some ordonance around 🙂

Daniel Klink
No the Revell one got its first colors on alu base, and i have to admit, the thin and presure combination for the Evolution gives me some Headache.
The Alu effect disappeared...

Daniel Klink
Played around a little with setup ideas for a small Dio for the Airfix Swallow.
I think i will do separated albums for the inished birds.. This is getting a bit chaotic... 🙂

Guillaume Blanchet
OH! That's going to be a jolly dioramama.I like it!

James C
The addition of the ground crew is a nice touch 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Yup, these folks do their job v.well 👍

Rui S
Looking forward to see the dio😉

Juergen Klinglhuber
It does !! 👍

Roberto Rocat
Really nice 👍!

Ricardo Reis
Looks really nice! 👍

Daniel Klink
Thank you gentlemen, very much appreciated!

Slavo Hazucha
I hope the dude sneaking into the cockpit is not going to press the trigger?😉

Daniel Klink
Hi Slavo!
Yap he never likes that guy sitting on the nose🙂

Martin Oostrom
It would solve all his constipation issues

Daniel Klink
Hehehe 🙂
Yap making some additional holes..🙁

Daniel Klink
Hi there now the Academy Me 262 A1a is in the painting cabin.

Jan Peters
Go go go!

Cuajete
Nice marks! 👍

Łukasz Gliński
They do look good indeed 👍

Daniel Klink
Thanks Jan Cuajete and Lukasz, much appreciated folks👍
They are printed by cartograf and of very good quality indeed👍
Academy luckily outsourced them for this kit🙂

Spanjaard
it is looking really good.
Cartograph makes really good decals. I wish some more model makers would outsource to them 😉 i used them in an Academy model too, they look great.

Gary Kitchen
All the swallows coming home to roost. I fear for the Kika though, maybe she's a solo bird?

Daniel Klink
Hi Guys, yes the Cartograf decals are really very good Spanjaard..
@Gary yap like it was in reality it never flew with others.
But white 17 and 19 become a separate Playground of their own.

Łukasz Gliński
I'm almost sure B&W version of pic #72 would look utterly real.

Erik De Smet
A separate playground for nr 17 and 19 ? Do you have an other diorama in mind ?

Łukasz Gliński
Lovely job mate 👍 Thanks 😄

Daniel Klink
Your wish is my command Lukasz 👍 :I
@Erik..Yes a small Achmer Dio
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Juergen Klinglhuber
well done Daniel - they are looking great.

Łukasz Gliński
Hope my wife won't see that 😛

Guy Rump
Great dio Daniel 👍

Daniel Klink
Thank you Juergen Lukasz and Guy, very much appreciated mates 👍
@Lukasz...won't see or won't read? 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Both 😄

Cuajete
Fantastic, Daniel. Very nice dio.
Herzliche Glückwünsche!

Daniel Klink
Hehe 🙂
Thank you cuajete! Still some bits to do there!
The Kettenkrad and a cat

Erik De Smet
Can a cat catch a swallow ?

Daniel Klink
Yep Erik, especially during start and landing 🙂

Cuajete
Very nice 17 jet, Daniel 👍

Daniel Klink
Thank you Mate, very much appreciated👍

Guillaume Blanchet
A great addition to the collection!

James C
Another sharp looking 262 build Daniel 👍

Guy Rump
Beautiful model Daniel 👍

Jim J
Nice finish. The camo and weathering are spot on. Congrats.

Slavo Hazucha
The White 17 looks great - top job 👍

Daniel Klink
Thank you very much Guillaume, James, Guy Jim and Salvo for your encouraging and warm words👍
Really much appreciated ,ates 👍 After Academy 17 comes Revell 19! 🙂

Daniel Klink
I solved the issue with the missing canopy with tissue canvas?

Cuajete
Nice solution, Daniel 👍

Daniel Klink
Thank you very much mate.. Glad you like the compromise 👍

Erik De Smet
A blind Schwalbe ? That will be an easy prey for the cat ʘ‿ʘ

Martin Weinpold
Daniel, which kit was the best? Thanks! Looks it very good!

Neuling
Very good paint work with a wonderful green. And a clever canopy replacement! 👍

Daniel Klink
Thank you mates very much appreciated👍
@Erik hehe the white 17 will guard the blindfolded🙂
@Martin all kits got their isssues!
Fit and details Academy is the choice
Accuracy and shape. Airfix
Kit for the money Revell, if there wasn't the crappy clearpart!
The kikka out of contest in every way🙂

Greg Baker
I came into this show after the canopy drama, so I was trying to figure out what I missed. Was the Revell part actually misshaped or just a poor fit? Regardless, the end result is fantastic.

Daniel Klink
Hi Greg, thank you first of all👍
The fit was poor, it is way too small and misshaped, the quality of the material also bad!
You can make it with lots pf polishing, sanding and filler!
But i would say if you plan to build one take the Airmodel offering of a replacement canopy!
But you have to implement that one early in the build!

Martin Weinpold
Thanks Daniel!

Daniel Klink
my pleasure martin 👍
@greg here pics of the original canopy part. IMO useless
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Martin
WOW, thats quite a journey

Łukasz Gliński
Cool base too 👍

Micky
Congratulations Daniel! Excellent work and paintjob in all models! and very nice Dioramas and bases. I did last year the Airfix one and enjoyed a lot. cheers

Spanjaard
it looks amazing.

Andy Ball
Another "knock-down, drag 'em out" build Daniel!

Alec K
Another beauty 👍

Alex Rodionov
?

Slavo Hazucha
19-white looks cool by any standards, but I really like the last "nostalgia" shot of the 17-white on the base with sepia filter - great pic! 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Oh! I missed something here.... Great diorama Daniel! And as Slavo mentioned, a great way to photograph your results. 👍

Guy Rump
Classy dio Daniel 👍

Daniel Klink
Whoa, thank you all so much mates for your warm words and very encouraging words and comments..
I am somewhat overwhelmed by this.. Thanky again Great community here👍
@Slavo kudos for the sepia got to Lukasz..he gave the kick in the KG51 thread 🙂

Guillaume Blanchet
Cool diorama. Very nice

Łukasz Gliński
The b&w wouldn't look that good w/o a nice base 🙂

Sebastian Meyner
White 17 & 19 both look stunning Daniel 👍

Spanjaard
superb 🙂

Stefan Schacht
very nice

Rui S
I like it a lot 👍

Cuajete
Fantastic base, pics and models, Daniel. One more time... Congrats!

Erik De Smet
Daniel shows us his toolbox. More surprises coming ?

Jan Peters
That's one small toolbox!

Cuajete
Nice litle toolbox!

Daniel Klink
Thank you very much mates for your nice and encouraging words...👍
@Erik no surprise...just some Tools 🙂
@Jan: Indeed it is ok Christian Bruer would say not that small at all...🙂

Thanks Cuajete 👍

Stefan Schacht
very nice, from which brand are the tools?

Daniel Klink
Hi Stefan thank you, it is the real good Brengun tools set!
Tools (Brengun BRL72002, 1:72)

Stefan Schacht
thx Daniel for the information

Olivier
So realistic...

Guy Rump
Very nice touch 👍

Erik De Smet
I would not use the saw to cut the engine off ?

Gary Kitchen
Great details make the difference, agree with Guy, it's a nice touch 👍 I notice the crew set I'm building with mine is bereft of tools, so may follow your lead, after all imitation is the sincerest form of flattery 😄

Andy Ball
Given the reliability of those Jumos, I bet that tool box was regularly used!

Erik De Smet
IKEA Underground, I presume ? I used it too:
Me 109 Crash in Black & White | Album by opadesmet (1:72)
Hurricane Egg Plane | Album by opadesmet (1:Egg)
Their cutting plates are also good bases...

Jan Peters
That's looking great Daniel!

Cuajete
Well done, Daniel.
Congrats!

James C
Lovely work Daniel and great looking pictures to 👍

Daniel Klink
Mates,thank you so much for the compliments and ecndouraging words, they are really very much appreciated and i am happy that you guys like my work.. 👍👍👍
So finally i call this swarm of swallows and the group build completed..
Thanky for all of your feedback and your accompaniment.👍
erik: yes i think so.. My ex left this and i found 2 of them in the basement.🙂

Spanjaard
quite an inspirational project. i will keep it as reference when i build my 262's 🙂 congrats Daniel. great results!!!

Juergen Klinglhuber
Nothing to add - it was great show. thx for sharing!

Daniel Klink
Thank you Spanjaard..That is an honor...👍
@juergen Thank you it was my pleasure 👍 Just a bit to ad...
*Woof*

Cuajete
A project that arose from a suggestion ... I am glad to see that the project developed and that it had a very good final result. Congrats on all the job, Daniel!

Daniel Klink
Ah yes rembering you started all this ?
Was a fun ride but now it is time for some Hinomarus 👍

Roberto Rocat
Lovely works. Bravo!

Łukasz Gliński
Since I saw the Schwalbe from the front for the 1st time, I've been always wondering why it wasn't named "Hai"
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Daniel Klink
LOL...
yap i think because a shark is no Bird. Germans were always meticulously accurate.🙂
They would'nt have named a light Bomber officially
"Elch" too 🙂 But the Me 262 really looked like a shark

Spanjaard
Absolutely
Now it comes to mind that Greg actually made a shark(sub) using the fuselage of a 262.... 😉

Greg Baker
I sure did - Red Rackham's Treasure (Shark Submarine) | Album by strobez (1:72) - It was nearly perfect at 1/100 scale for a 1/72 Tintin sub. My first Tintin build in fact!

Alec K
An amazing effort indeed 👍

Daniel Klink
Wow overlooked that stunning transformation from Bird to Fish by Greg and i think it was an absolute amazing job you did there mate 👍

Daniel Klink
Ah, Mille grazie Roberto..davvero apprezzato..👍

Greg Baker
Haha! Thanks Daniel. That means a lot coming from you. 🙂

Jan Peters
The figure really makes it come alive Daniel. Maybe add some straps to the canvas on the canopy, and a towbar to the nose wheel?

Daniel Klink
Ho Greg you are making me blush sir...🙂
@Jan yap thats a good point because there was a manual how to put on the Canvas.
It was exactly stretched over the Cabin with straps surrounding the whole fuselage diameter.
ANd some wheel chocks would be nice too.. thanks mate 👍

Jan Peters
There is a picture of the the canvas fixtures in the Valiant Wings book on the me 262

Daniel Klink
Hi Jan, oops nearly overlooked your hint, but it was too late anyway...Thanky mate 👍

Jan Peters
🙂