Well, I'm starting a new multi-skin unit.

Messerschmitt 262 A-1a White 4 Kommando Novotny, Achmer 1944



Me 262 A-1a Feldwebel White 9 Helmut Lennartz Kommando Novotny Rechlin-Lanz 1944


And yes, this skin has a few 3dz issues also. Most of them seem to have them.....

Sweet!!

Very good, thats a nice camo layout.

Looking forward to have them in my package.

Greetings,

Knegel

Hi Mike

Nice multi skins

Cheers

Hi Mike.

Nice skins.

Sorry I'm not able to debug the models, but I'm still using a pre Ice Age computer with Linux on it!

Nothing EAW works, so I'm dead in the water.

Mike, this is a clever decision to choose Kommando Nowotny jets. This provides you with a bunch of interesting multi-camoed Me 262s to fill your EAW squadron. Especially because many Kdo.Nowotny jets flew until the end of the war with unchanged camo, still showing the yellow fuselage band, but being part of EJG 2, JG 7 or even JV 44. Just have a look at Me 262s from that units showing their tactical numbers on their noses...
The Me 262 3dz is a bit screwed up, indeed and the paneling is wrong, especially the parts surrounding the gun troughs in the fuselage nose. The machine cannon access hatches are way too small.
Concerning the black vertical bar of "White 4"; this is not a tactical marking, but a strip of tape covering the gaping slot between fuselage and tail unit. The tail unit was manufactured by Messerschmitt subcontractors so the parts didn´t fit very well in the final days of WW2. The tape was covered with camopaint which looked darker on the fabric than on the surrounding metal. So the "bar" ought to be a dark green and reaching from fuselage top left to fuselage top right omitting the tailfin and changing to a darker lightblue on the bottom of the fuselage.
Tha tail units with the characteristic sharp-edged blotches had been made from wood in furniture factories and were tested on Kdo. Nowotny jets instead of the aluminum tail units mostly used on other Me 262s. Those blotches had been applied with stencils because the furniture factories did not use spray guns.

I´m looking forward to rest of the gang

This set is going to take a bit longer than usual. Mr. Jels 3dz maker is confused by the models' notation. They are P262AA.3dz not p262Aex.3dz so they need to be converted manually. I have the first 4 done White 2,3,4 and 19 based on a very famous photo of the flight line. I just need to fix the 3dz for White 19 (plane 03).

I'll see just what I can do about the cannon access doors Fran. Thanks for the photos. I have one.

Here´s the real thing - "White 3"

Here are the next 3 from Kommando Novotny...


Me 262 A-1a White 17


Me 262 a-1a White 8 W Nr. 110400 Maj Walter Novotny, Achmer fall, 1944


Me 262 A-1a Lt. White 1/S (S is for Stab flight)W Nr.170047 Franz Schall, Hesepe, fall 1944


P.S. I've redone the nose a it with larger cannon access doors.

Perfect late-war colours, Mike

Concerning the small bulge at the fuselage nose - when part of the Me 262 it was situated exactly in the middle of the cannon access doors and housed some protruding parts of the Mk 108 machine cannons. It was a very shallow bulge and not visible on most wartime photographs. "White 3" in Munich does not feature this bulge, for instance.
The upper wing crosses are a bit too "fat". Have a look at "White 3". It was captured in Switzerland and the markings have never been overpainted with roundels etc.; so the size is original.