He 162 Salamander 1/32

bcauchi wrote:Nice work Wayne, i like the colour but you need some more pipes, if you note there are more than 3 pipes grouped and clipped together.

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Marco tieh COPY ghal 7,000 darba "I must add ALL wires on HE 162's Engine"

Noel Petroni wrote:Nice work Wayne.

Did these HE see action?
If so where?
What Month/Year?

Ray wrote:Marco we are waiting for you to PULL Wayne's ear

Wayne wrote:Here are the pics as promised.





BRIAN, how do you MANAGE to keep your pipework straight?  I spent the best part of 2 hours fiddling with the wires on this side of the engine and I'm not that happy with the way they are aligned!

skyhigh wrote:

Noel Petroni wrote:Nice work Wayne.

Did these HE see action?
If so where?
What Month/Year?

Noel just made a quick look , infact yes They did........

The He 162 finally saw combat in mid-April. On 19 April 1945, a captured Royal Air Force fighter pilot informed his German interrogators that he had been shot down by a jet fighter matching the description of the He 162. The Heinkel and its pilot were lost as well, shot down by an RAF Hawker Tempest while on approach to land (a point when German jets were at their most vulnerable). Though still in training, I./JG 1 had scored a number of kills beginning in mid-April, but had also lost 13 He 162s and 10 pilots. Ten of the aircraft were operational losses, caused by flameouts and sporadic structural failures. Only two of the 13 aircraft were actually shot down. The He 162's 30-minute fuel capacity also caused problems, as at least two of JG 1's pilots were killed attempting emergency landings after exhausting their fuel........... 

Ray wrote:Wayne, I think you'll better align, bend, twist & stick whatever before painting because I'm sure you were "afraid" you'll spoil the painting underneath when you were trying to put in the rest of the piping.

At least that is what I'm thinking

Having said all that, they look OK to me  

bcauchi wrote:Wayne, i will try my best to come this Wed. I plan to but can't say till the last minute. You are doing just fine and the pipes are wires are great. you just need to check your photos and add all you see there on to your model slowly. Each pipe and wire serves a purpose and has a start and an end point. But i like the way you are working and the alignment. You take the engine one section at a time and work on it and then move on to the next. Don't try and do it all at once otherwise you will go nuts. As i already told you, you need to do some homework first and work in layers. First paint the engine and weather it and do whatever you need to do to it and then build up the layers of wires/pipes as necessary making sure that you put in the underlying ones first. Every time paint the wires and pipes you put in otherwise it will be very diffiucult in the end.

I guess I'll better stick to Figurines

bcauchi wrote:Hallina Ray you are fishing for compliments from afar.  When you built aircraft, they were award winning models so don;t act like you have never built a plane before, your aircraft were great and it is a pity that you never built more aircraft.  You should throw in the occasional one in between the figures. There are some excellent models you can just build out of the box.

The tandem with Joseph works fine for me Bri

Wayne sorry for the hijack  

As you can see, my pretended advices re wiring were revoked by Brian   

However, Chris' revelations in his new thread re Spitfire seems to shed some light on my lack of aircraft wiring proceedures   

skyhigh wrote:Wayne the photos are not good enough , but it looks better...already..

Agree 101% except re photos as they look ok to me