Meng Me 163 now FINISHED

[matrixone]

At last, here are some of the pictures of the Me 163.

First of all a big Thank You to James for sending me this kit to build, who knows how long before I could have been able to buy one of these.

I do have other pictures to post but today I have had a bad time trying to get this thread started without the dreaded ''page cannot be displayed'' popping up.


Matrixone

 

[MrT]

Nice looking build! Your airfield is getting full.

Terry

 

[phantom II]

Nice build

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[moon puppy]

Way to go Les!

 

[jknaus]

Looks awesome. Glad you enjoyed it. I know I enjoyed watching the build.
James

 

[Barney]

 

[Old Dog]

As usual the paint and weathering is spot on ! Nice job Les

 

[Dave The Chef]

Beautiful Les and I would love some more pics if possible please

 

[lupanzer]

Truly fantastic,Les!...love it

Luiz

 

[taiidantomcat]

Nice looking build! Your airfield is getting full.

Terry

Indeed! Hey Matrix, could we get a group shot of all your luft stuff? :yipee

Great job on this one, I could tell it was yours with your tricky camera shenanigans that always fool me! B)

 

[matrixone]

Thanks to all for the kind words!

I had some trouble yesterday getting this thread started so that's why I limited the amount of pictures to only three.

Anyway...this model was marked as ''yellow 5'' which was one of many Me 163's at Brandis in 1945 and was discovered by U.S. troops inside a collapsed aircraft hanger. The W.Nr. on my model is incorrect, the decal came from my spares box and its all I had on hand and better than nothing.

More pictures...

Below is a photograph taken in 1945 of a captured Me 163 in original paint, I used this as a guide to help me add the weathering on my model.

Matrixone

 

[moon puppy]

Captured it well Les, great job.

 

[chukw]

Keep raisin' that bar, Les! Man- that is the perfect reference pick- and you nailed it. Cheers!

 

[matrixone]

Thanks Bob and Chuck!

A few more pictures of this model.

Matrixone

 

[ij001]

Never, never tire of looking at your models, Les. You don't have to answer this, and I know you've done some vehicles recently, but would you think of building some earlier aircraft ???, would love to see what you would do with a Battle of Britain 109E or Desert scheme Ju87...

...just a thought.

Ian

 

[matrixone]

Thanks for the kind words Ian,
Right now I don't have hardly any model kits of early war aircraft to build so that's why I don't have any to show here. Buying good reference books is expensive and even more so if one attempted to buy reference books of all the Luftwaffe aircraft used in the entire war so I decided long ago to concentrate my book collection (and models)on mid to late war aircraft. The late war Luftwaffe fighters have always held my interest with their mix of the old grays and newer green and brown colors on them making them a fun challenge to paint correctly...the early war schemes are pretty much all the same and have been done to death by many other modelers throughout the years, with the late war schemes there are still some that are rarely, if ever, done in model form and I like my models to look original when possible.

Matrixone

 

[cb1]

excellent! :yipee

 

[reconron]

Mighty fine job,Les!


Greetings,Ron.

 

[matrixone]

Thanks cb1 and Ron!

One more picture of this model...

Matrixone

 

[moon puppy]

pretty cool Les. had one of these kits in my hand yesterday but cound not find the vendor to make a deal..wasn't meant to be i guess.