One of
my other series sub-projects is the Me-163 Komet. I always thought it was an
interesting device, with a number of variations that would provide a good visual
model display. I believe I saw such a model display at the USAF Museum in
Dayton OH when I visited there.
I’ve
built most of the variants of the Me-163 itself. I think I still have the Special
Hobby Me-163C to do, plus I have future plans to upgrade my Me-163A, which was created
from a resin kit way back when. There are a couple of earlier Lippisch DFS designs
that deserve to be in the lineup as well.
But as
to today’s completion. This is a standard Me-163B, but in captured RAF
markings. The kit is Hobby Boss, in their easy kit version. Nothing special
about the kit; I just never had built one from this line, and the go-to Academy
kit seemed to be a bit hard to acquire for some reason. It was easy enough to
build, as you would expect.
The
markings came from a Rising Decals set of captured German aircraft (RD72057).
If you are ambitious, there are also 109s and Ju-88s on the sheet as well. I
had no problems with the decals.
In fact,
I had no real problems with the model altogether (though I did find out after
the fact that I had made something of an error on painting the rudder). Murphy’s
Law is a constant on the production line here in 72 Land.
This is
completed aircraft #492 (9 aircraft, 0 ordnance, 3 vehicles for the year 2018),
finished in June of 2018.
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