Figarti: Me262 Black 4 (1 Viewer)

uksubs said:
Any chance of a photo of the plane ?
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The nose of this Me 262 is painted white....Sorry no picture....I have a 1:48th Franklin Mint version which I purchased before they went out of business.....Franklin Mint made some nice stuff at reasonable prices.....That said however I would welcome almost any Figarti Me262 paint scheme in 1:30th scale as long as it's not a tail sitter and does not have scratches to simulate weathering.
 
Vezzolf said:
The nose of this Me 262 is painted white....Sorry no picture....I have a 1:48th Franklin Mint version which I purchased before they went out of business.....Franklin Mint made some nice stuff at reasonable prices.....That said however I would welcome almost any Figarti Me262 paint scheme in 1:30th scale as long as it's not a tail sitter and does not have scratches to simulate weathering.
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You mean this version ^&grin
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Vezzolf said:
The nose of this Me 262 is painted white....Sorry no picture....I have a 1:48th Franklin Mint version which I purchased before they went out of business.....Franklin Mint made some nice stuff at reasonable prices.....That said however I would welcome almost any Figarti Me262 paint scheme in 1:30th scale as long as it's not a tail sitter and does not have scratches to simulate weathering.
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When did franklin mint go out of business. I know armour did and fm took over their line...ron
 
The Franklin Mint did not go out of business; they discontinued their military products. The competition from Hobby Master in 1/48 scale aircraft was pretty intense. Carosel who also made superb 1/48 scale aircraft folded at about the same time, five years ago. 21st Century Toys made very accurate 1/32 scale WW II warbirds including a very nice example of the ME 262. Ebay has them occasionaly. I cannot see Figarti doing a me to product; the Nachtjager would be a better choice or the Henschel Hs 129 tank buster; which destroyed more Russian armor than German Panzers at Kursk. The best German Nachtjager IMHO was the Arado AR 234. The first operational jet bomber and later retrofitted for night fighter operations. A facinating aircraft and in many ways more effective than the ME 262.
 
katana said:
The Franklin Mint did not go out of business; they discontinued their military products. The competition from Hobby Master in 1/48 scale aircraft was pretty intense. Carosel who also made superb 1/48 scale aircraft folded at about the same time, five years ago. 21st Century Toys made very accurate 1/32 scale WW II warbirds including a very nice example of the ME 262. Ebay has them occasionaly. I cannot see Figarti doing a me to product; the Nachtjager would be a better choice or the Henschel Hs 129 tank buster; which destroyed more Russian armor than German Panzers at Kursk. The best German Nachtjager IMHO was the Arado AR 234. The first operational jet bomber and later retrofitted for night fighter operations. A facinating aircraft and in many ways more effective than the ME 262.
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Doubt Arado Ar 234 was the German best night fighter of the war more like Me 110G or Ju88 which shoot down loads of allied bombers and don't forget the top Me 262 fighter ace was a single seater night fighter version
 
katana said:
The Franklin Mint did not go out of business; they discontinued their military products. The competition from Hobby Master in 1/48 scale aircraft was pretty intense. Carosel who also made superb 1/48 scale aircraft folded at about the same time, five years ago. 21st Century Toys made very accurate 1/32 scale WW II warbirds including a very nice example of the ME 262. Ebay has them occasionaly. I cannot see Figarti doing a me to product; the Nachtjager would be a better choice or the Henschel Hs 129 tank buster; which destroyed more Russian armor than German Panzers at Kursk. The best German Nachtjager IMHO was the Arado AR 234. The first operational jet bomber and later retrofitted for night fighter operations. A facinating aircraft and in many ways more effective than the ME 262.
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Think your find this a interesting read
In addition, it was intended to modify upwards of 30 Ar 234B-2 airframes for the night-fighting role, from a proposal dated September 12, 1944 between Arado director Walter Blume and Goering's top aviation technologist, Siegfried Knemeyer.[9] Designated Ar 234B-2/N and code named Nachtigall (Nightingale), these aircraft were fitted with FuG 218 "Neptun" VHF-band radar with the appropriately reduced-length dipole element version of the standard Hirschgeweih transceiving AI radar antenna system, and carried a pair of forward-firing MG 151/20 autocannon within a Magirusbombe conformal gun pod on the ventral fuselage hardpoint. A second crew member, who operated the radar systems, was accommodated in a very cramped compartment in the rear fuselage. Two of these jury-rigged night fighters served with Kommando Bonow, an experimental test unit attached to Luftflotte Reich. Operations commenced with the pair of 234s in March 1945, but Bonow's team soon found the aircraft to be unsuited for night fighting and no kills were recorded during the unit's very brief life.
 
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