Custom ME262 Trainer

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:59 pm

Not sure why I never showed this off yet!?!?

It's been painted with Vallajo model air paints.

For the RLM81/82 I used what vallejo recommends. I did mix in some red brown with the RLM81 on the 262, I did not do that for the BF109. What vallejo recommends for the RLM81 needs some more red brown in it, I think so...

cjg476 · Post by **cjg476** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:18 pm

WOW...It looks so realistic...I think its awesome...wonderful piece

Tambo · Post by **Tambo** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 10:00 pm

Those look great. Well done.

derek_001 · Post by **derek_001** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:09 am

I think the 109's scheme looks a little to cluttered but the 262 scheme is great!
Nice job flyboy!

Light.Inf.Scout · Post by **Light.Inf.Scout** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:13 am

those are awesome!

PanzerArm · Post by **PanzerArm** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 10:41 am

Those are sweet flyboy!

Keep it up!

Seeing those two on the ground like that reminded me of this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpyDHlEd2IA

Skip to the 6 min mark for the segment involving a 262 that came to mind.

-Kevin

Studly · Post by **Studly** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:13 pm

WOW that looks Great ,Well Done Mate

tko211 · Post by **tko211** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:23 pm

Nice Trainer! I noticed you painted the number 35 on yours. Mine was painted as the 36 sister ship.

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:12 pm

I know!!!

PanzerArm · Post by **PanzerArm** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 7:45 pm

It looks like it has a name on the front of it. Vera?

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:41 pm

Correct, the allies named a lot of these when they where captured. Look up Watson's Whizzers.

[CAT]CplSlade · Post by **[CAT]CplSlade** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:22 pm

Apparently "Vera" has been restored as part of the ME-262 Project and is the plane currently residing at Pensacola NAS. It is the only surviving trainer variant, which fact I did not know when I was standing in front of it last summer.

It's funny to realize that I have touched that very same aircraft in flyboy's pic - the only one of its kind in existence.

And it's just sitting there, right out in the open like its no big deal.

Guys over at Warbird Information Exchange discussed its history in the third post down:
http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.o ... 73&start=0

And she was Watson's Whizzer #555.

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:46 pm

Where is that located right now?

[CAT]CplSlade · Post by **[CAT]CplSlade** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:48 pm

Herp derp. Re: my post Pensacola NAS, which is to say the Naval Aviation Museum located on the grounds of the Naval Air Station which is in Pensacola, Fl.

At least that's where it was when I saw it last. All I can say for certain is its not in Georgia because I'm there right now and I don't see it anywhere.

derek_001 · Post by **derek_001** » Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:25 am

[CAT]CplSlade wrote:Herp derp. Re: my post Pensacola NAS, which is to say the Naval Aviation Museum located on the grounds of the Naval Air Station which is in Pensacola, Fl.

At least that's where it was when I saw it last. All I can say for certain is its not in Georgia because I'm there right now and I don't see it anywhere.

all i want to know is why is it in a naval museum???

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Sat Jan 07, 2012 5:23 pm

Here's a short vid on 35's arrival at Pensacola NAS......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idr1tSsNlg0

Sorry flyboy, both planes look great!!! The trainer is just fantastic, nice job!

warbike · Post by **warbike** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:07 am

When I was in the Navy from 1990-1994, I saw this ME 262 trainer at NAS Willow Grove, PA. before the base closed down. It was in rough shape. A company in Texas, before it moved to Wash. State, rebuilt the plane for the Navy for free, in return the company , who was building full scale replica ME 262's, used this trainer aircraft as a template to built the others. Some of you may have heard of this company. One of the aircraft, a single seat fighter version, was sold to Germany. You can see videos of it on youtube.

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