1/48 Tamiya Me-262

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1/48 Tamiya Me-262

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I'm in with mine.

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Well, hello! I’m subscribed!
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Welcome aboard Joe!

It's great to have you with us, but please do feel free to carry on in your Aviation section thread if you wish!
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Re: 1/48 Tamiya Me-262

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Thanks for the welcome fellas!! And so....it starts....

Fuselage cut from sprues, cleaning up the halves and test fitting the interior tomorrow....

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Excellent Joe!
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Thanks fellas!!

I've been getting rid of the interior detail/ ribbing from the inside of both halves of the fuselage in order to fit the AM pieces in here. After accomplishing that and test fitting it's looking pretty good from about every angle so far.

Details removed:

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The interior tub, side panels and rear wall of the gear bay fit well.

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I fitted the original rear wall in place to see how high it sat above the fuselage to ensure a proper wing fit to the fuselage. Here's the stock / OOB height:

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and the height with the Aires AM piece fitted in. Looks good from here:

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So.....I tried my luck with the wing test fit. I think I'm good here:

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That resin looks like a good addition Joe - it does seem to fit well!
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Looks great. I realize the resin will usually have much more detail, but how were the kit parts?
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Re: 1/48 Tamiya Me-262

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Thanks Stuart and Lyle.
It took some time get rid of all the OOB gear bay spars and ribbing from the inside of both halves to get everything to drop in nicely but it fits like it was made for it.

Lyle: The kit parts weren’t bad but they sure didn’t have the details that the Aires does. Night and day difference. I’ll post pictures later on today.
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