Ok folks, we are several days past the extended amended updated revised official end of this Campaign period, so below is the Roll Call/Build Status log correct as best I can see from the posts in the thread. If anybody has any corrections to be made please let me know.

I count 13 completed builds in the list, with 12 in the Gallery (Raj, drop in a couple of images when you get a chance). Congratulations to all who got finished, every build is a gem!

alpha_tango (Steffen) Hobby Boss A-1A plus PE and Resin and AM decals COMPLETED
Antilles (Oliver) Revell 1/72 A-1a COMPLETED
AussieReg (Damian) Italeri 1/48 B-1a/U2 CONTINUING SUB-ASSEMBLIES AND INTERIOR PAINT
Beauslx (Robert) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1a/U4
Bigrip74 (Bob) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1a FUSELAGE ASSEMBLED
Bomber14 (Joe) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1a COMPLETED
Bushioka (Martyn) Revell 1/72 A-1a PAINTED, READY FOR MARKINGS
c4willy (Chris) Hasegawa 1/72 B? DECALLED, WEATHERING
dcandal Tamiya 1/48 COMPLETED
Dragon164 (Rob) Dragon 1/48 Mistel 262/262
EHAM0624 Jan Janssen Revell 1/144 COMPLETED
eMan (Lap Man) Tamiya 1/48 A-2A COMPLETED
goodn8 (Thomas) Revell 1/72 A-1a COMPLETED
Harry01 (Hans-Peter)
Iflytb20 (Raj) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1b COMPLETED
IronOwl (Sascha) Revell 1/48 A-1a
JoeOsborne (Joe) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1a/U3 COMPLETED
JoeOsborne (Joe) Trumpeter 1/32 A-1A (plus extras)
jugjunkie (Geoff) Cyber Hobby 1/48 A-1/U4
Lakota (Don) Revell 1/48 A-1a
magnusf (Magnus) High Planes 1/72 V-2/V-3 Prototype CATASTROPHIC DECAL SETTING SOLUTION EXPLOSION, AIRCRAFT DECLARED WRITTEN OFF
Mascharius (Jan) Revell 1/72 A-1a COMPLETED
MLD (Mike) Hasegawa 1/72 B-1a COMPLETED
PeeJay74 (Paul) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1b
Pricklehead Cyber Hobby 1/48 A-1/U4
redcap (Gary) Trumpeter 1/32 A-1a
rochaped (Pedro) Tamiya 1/48 A-2a
SGTJKJ (Jesper) Italeri 1/48 A-1A COMPLETED
Shorty53 (John) Cyber-Hobby 1/48 A-1/U4 PAINTED, READY FOR DECALS
sluff (Petri) Revell 1/72 + CMK cannon nose conversion
supergrobi (Stefan)
tinbanger (Richard) Trumpeter 1/144 A-1a COMPLETED
TonyDS (Tony) Trumpeter 1/32 A-1a with muchos AM goodies
VonCuda (Hermon) Tamiya 1/48
WildeSau (Jan) MPM 1/72 A-1a/U3
woltersk (Keith) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1a/U5 INTERIOR DETAILING

I must give a HUGE thanks to all who have contributed to this Campaign with builds (completed or not), information and input, I have really enjoyed running the show. I will award the ribbons to those folks as soon as the Campaign page is updated. Michael(Satin) thanks for your help along the way.

Special mention and commiseration to Magnus, I was really liking your build until it went awry my friend.

For those who wish to join me, I will continue to post in this thread with progress on my build until I get it finished. I would love to see a few more builds escape the dreaded Hangar Queen Shelf of Doom.

Thanks again, see you all soon.

Cheers, D

Cheers Damian!!

many thanks for that great campaign lead and Michael thanks for your great support to Damian!

all the best

Steffen

Thanks Damian!
I hope this thread will go on with all the work in progress builds to show up more nice 262's
Thomas

Congratulations to all the finishers!! Well done. Plenty of fantastic builds.

A little more post-campaign progress on mine. Wired and plumbed (pneumatic lines) the gun bay.



Painted the wires, red and white connectors, and added some placard-looking decals to the junction boxes(?):



Keith

Well better late than never I guess! New job has me pretty worn out most nights and my modelling suffers accordingly. So I managed to get to the bench and actually achieve something today. I'm calling this one done. My thanks to Damian and the rest of the admin crew for a great campaign and to you my fellow modellers you are always a constant source of inspiration to me.









I went for a factory fresh delivery with light minimal weathering dirtying up the paint work a little which the flash seems to have happily washed out. This was an awesome wee kit with NO putty .... yes that's right NO putty this would be a first for me!

And Damian it's a Me262B-1a

@Keith:- This is the Hasegawa 1/72 Me262B-1a kit which can be built as either B-1a/U1 Nightfighter or as a B-1a trainer (the option I chose as every man and his dog wanted to to do the Nightfighter version LOL)

@Chris--very nice two-seater! Your Camo job is an inspiration. Remind us--which kit is that which requires no putty?

My cockpit tub is done. A major milestone towards assembling the fuselage:





Keith

Hi Keith I replied in my original post and then thought you might not see it LOL. I replied:-

This is the Hasegawa 1/72 Me262B-1a kit which can be built as either B-1a/U1 Nightfighter or as a B-1a trainer (the option I chose as every man and his dog wanted to to do the Nightfighter version LOL)


My thanks for your generous praise regarding the Camo on my B-1a I have to admit I really like the Luftwaffe mottle and splinter camo. The late war stuff really has a great variation and is open to "poetic" license and that provides for a great palette of possible colors.

And your cockpit tub is a work of art I like the subtle weathering you've applied. were the instrument bezels hand painted or photo etch?

Chris, great job mate, love the paintwork! Congrats on getting finished, and with NO PUTTY, very impressive.

Keith, awesome detail work. Great to see you getting those sub assemblies together now.

Below is an updated Roll Call/Build Status log with all of the non-starters edited out.

alpha_tango (Steffen) Hobby Boss A-1A plus PE and Resin and AM decals COMPLETED
Antilles (Oliver) Revell 1/72 A-1a COMPLETED
AussieReg (Damian) Italeri 1/48 B-1a/U2 CONTINUING SUB-ASSEMBLIES AND INTERIOR PAINT
Bigrip74 (Bob) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1a FUSELAGE ASSEMBLED
Bomber14 (Joe) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1a COMPLETED
Bushioka (Martyn) Revell 1/72 A-1a PAINTED, READY FOR MARKINGS
c4willy (Chris) Hasegawa 1/72 B-1a COMPLETED
dcandal Tamiya 1/48 COMPLETED
EHAM0624 Jan Janssen Revell 1/144 COMPLETED
eMan (Lap Man) Tamiya 1/48 A-2A COMPLETED
goodn8 (Thomas) Revell 1/72 A-1a COMPLETED
Iflytb20 (Raj) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1b COMPLETED
JoeOsborne (Joe) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1a/U3 COMPLETED
magnusf (Magnus) High Planes 1/72 V-2/V-3 Prototype CATASTROPHIC DECAL SETTING SOLUTION EXPLOSION, AIRCRAFT DECLARED WRITTEN OFF
Mascharius (Jan) Revell 1/72 A-1a COMPLETED
MLD (Mike) Hasegawa 1/72 B-1a COMPLETED
SGTJKJ (Jesper) Italeri 1/48 A-1A COMPLETED
Shorty53 (John) Cyber-Hobby 1/48 A-1/U4 PAINTED, READY FOR DECALS
tinbanger (Richard) Trumpeter 1/144 A-1a COMPLETED
woltersk (Keith) Hobby Boss 1/48 A-1a/U5 INTERIOR DETAILING AND SUB ASSEMBLIES

Cheers, D

hey... I resemble that remark..
It's quite a nice kit and the options make it all the more interesting. I went nightfighter to practice those mottles/squiggles for other builds. But, yea, guilty as charged.

Marcus, I did not forget your generosity with the U4 conversion. AMPSEast/Armorcon is next weekend, and my T62 (only in-progress for cough cough 20 yrs) is 99% done, plus any last minute details already overlooked for two decades.
It's next on the bench after that. Going into the next Luft46 campaign, I already forgot the name of.. oops.

Thanks for running this campaign, it was a blast!

Mike

A little more progress on my build, fuselage assembled.




Fit is ok, very tight so I had to glue this in stages over several nights with plenty of tape and clamping. Some seams to clean up and a slight gap behind the second seat to fill and touch up. I will also do some more detail painting to dull down the belts and highlight some raised features.

I put 30 grams of weight in just forward of the IP bulkhead, fingers crossed we sit properly!

Wings and powerplants assembled next update.

Cheers, D

Damian, this looks very good so far - nice to see the campaign leader's progress
30 grams should be enough ... maybe
Thomas

Looking good Damian! I especially like the soft filter you've used on the pics ..... makes me feel all nostalgic! (LOL) Cold room warm Camera or vice versa? If the weight isn't enough you can always pack out the very front of the engine nacelles it's what I did to get the Tigercat to sit properly.

Thanks guys.

Photos were taken with my iPad, I've been out of town for work all week and took a very basic tool set with me, that's why they are a bit fuzzy.

Cheers, D

@Chris--1/72! That makes your paint job even more impressive. Thanks for the kind word on my cockpit--the instruments are actually the kit decals on the plastic control panel. Lucky for me they lined up perfectly.

@Damian--I'm right behind you. Got my fuselage together. That is a major milestone for me.





Keith

Thanks for a great campaign, Damian!

Great to see there is still progress bring made!

Hello again folks. The finish date on the Campaign page has now passed, so I have been able to award ribbons to those 13 legends who managed to finish their builds.

To the rest of us semi-legends, keep plugging away and posting progress here.

Thanks again to everybody who participated, onwards and upwards to the next great Aussiereg adventure HERE , hope to see you all there!

Cheers, D

Hello Damian,

thanks for the ribbon and of course many thanks for leading this great campaign. Certainly I will follow more swallow builds, posted here.

Oliver

No progress, just an interesting anniversary to observe.

http://ww2db.com/aircraft_spec.php?aircraft_model_id=17

3 Oct 1944 The first Messerschmitt Me 262 fighter unit was established at Achmer and Hesepe near Osnabrück, Germany under the command of Austrian-born ace Major Walter Nowotny. The unit had 30 aircraft distributed among two squadrons and was given the task of intercepting USAAF day bomber raids on the heart of Germany.

Cheers, D

@Damian--very interesting anniversary. I had family living in Osnabruck and nearby Bielefeld back in the '80s. The family doctor was an ex Luftwaffe flight surgeon who owned a small plane. He took me up once and we flew over the base. He pointed out bomb craters in the fields around the flightline and runways left over from WWII. I'll have to dig out the pictures.

Call me weird, but I decided to close up the gun bay and display the cannons separately. I've always loved the -262 design and want to display it with the shape and lines clean.

Added some styrene strips for support:


Nose pieces installed. Not too happy with the fit, but there are issues with the fuselage also. Also installed some added weight in case the lack of guns makes a difference.


The gun bay coming along. Needs some touch up and a few more pieces.

Keith

I'd be keen to see those photos Keith, sounds interesting.



OK, you're weird! But then, so am I because I totally agree with you.

Great progress report, coming along very nicely indeed!

Cheers, D

@Damian--well I found a few, but they're pretty crappie. This was circa 1979 - 1981, and were taken with a Kodak (anyone remember them?) 110 instamatic (anyone remember those?).



Those look to be F-4s on the tarmac. We were in a Cessna 172 I think. Can't see ant craters in the pic, they were all overgrown with grass anyway.

A few more shots from the flight:





Blurry 'Check 6' and even blurrier countryside.

Keith

A little more progress, initial puttying and sanding:



Keith

This may be a moot point in an otherwise 'dead' thread, but I found better pics of that airfield:







And, for S&Gs, a few shots of a much younger me at the controls:





Alas, there has been no progress on my build. Hopefully soon.

Keith

Great photos Keith, and great memories for you I'm sure. Thanks for posting them here.

We're not quite dead, yet! I am still tinkering with my Schwalbe build as well, nothing tangible to show just yet.

Cheers, D

How long before Schwalbe II? Lol