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It's probably easier to mount the landing gear doors without the wheels in the way so that's what I've done next.

You know, I've been building planes for quite some time and I never even considered this. I'm gonna have to try this myself.

Beautiful job John! Man, you rock!

Thanks Duke!

The glue securing the landing gear legs have been given a couple of days to cure so I can now put the wheels on. Since I have sanded flat spots on the tires to depict weight compressing the rubber, I have to make sure that the tires are rotated to put the flat spots in the right position. A quick-setting two-part epoxy such as JB Kwik Weld works well for situations like this as they give me a 2-5 minutes to make adjustments before the glue starts to harden.


Mixing equal parts of the light and dark colored components yields a dark brown goop with the consistency of toothpaste.


With the wheels attached with JB Kwik Weld, I alternate the model between the jig and a flat tabletop to ensure that the tires' flat spots are in the right place.




And now the model can sit on its own legs for the first time!

She looks beautiful John! I know it's been said before but the 262 looks like a shark and more so in this night fighter camo scheme.

Whoa! The gear wells alone are a beautiful model. Fantastic.

Well just loogathat!! Upright and on her wheels. That is one tough looking bird right there buddy.

Yup....that JB Quick is some awesome stuff!!

Speechless, yet again! Just beautiful.

LyleW wrote:Speechless, yet again! Just beautiful.

Thanks guys! As I creep toward the finish, I've been adding some small details like paint chipping here and there and turning the exhaust "cones" white per the reference photos. I've kept the weathering fairly subdued on this build thinking that this was an experimental deployment of the Me262B and probably didn't get much flying time prior to capture. I'm going to keep adding some weathering as I go but I would say that the overall finish is just about complete.