Completed - Bs262

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In an alternative universe, Willy Messerschmitt on november 10th 1938 decides to defect to the USA. He takes with him the top secret designs for his new plane. Sensitive of his celebrity status, he changes his name to Bill Schmitt. Surprisingly, nobody wants to meet him to talk about his new BS plane. After many, many attempts, his BS262 is awarded a USAF contract. Schmitt's only demand is that all BS262's must be flown by pilots of German heritage.
My plane will depict a BS262 flown during the invasion of Normandy, by lt.col Georg von Trapp, call sign 'BB'. 'BB' is short for Blue Balls, which Von Trapp is called ever since his unfortunate event at flight school...

Schmitt also took the plans for the JuMo engines with him. Because he couldn't understand them, he invited two other ex-pats to join forces and build him the engines.
Hub van Doorne, from the famous DAF car plant, and Oliver Bierhoff, a former soccer golden boy, started a company to build the jet engines.
This particular BS262 came powered by two DooBie DB-5 engines.
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In her natural habitat

Commentaires

31 11 April 2021, 15:31

Martin Oostrom
Pictures of the WIP can be found here Scalemates Schwalbe Group build 2021 | Album by Mahoo76 (1:72)

11 April 2021, 15:34

Cuajete
Nice and original what-if scheme. Congrats!

11 April 2021, 17:38

Gary Kitchen
A triumph Martin. I'll keep an eye out for the film of the backstory for this model. Hollywood blockbuster? Or Euro Art house film? Choices choices 😄

11 April 2021, 17:45

Spanjaard
Beautiful job Martin!

11 April 2021, 20:27

Alec K
Well done 👍

11 April 2021, 22:41

Martin Oostrom
Thank you gentlemen. One of my better builds and certainly my best paint job (says a lot about the rest 😉 )

12 April 2021, 16:08

Jan Peters
Strange, but great fun.🙂

12 April 2021, 16:30

Martin Oostrom
Thanks Jan 👍

16 April 2021, 12:50

Ben M
Quite the backstory!

23 October, 10:50

Transall NG
Very interesting, but please check your front wheel leg ! Por favor !!
What a funny What-if ! 🙂

23 October, 16:06

gorby
Excellent what-if and I love the story. 😄

23 October, 17:37

Spanjaard
Transall NG, seeing the instructions and the inbox reviews I think that Academy got the front wheel quite different from the real 262 in this kit... I also see other academy models in SCM that have exactly the same front wheel as Martin's build.

23 October, 21:05

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Messerschmitt BS262

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1:72 Me 262A-1/2 "Last Ace" (Academy 12542)

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