Questions on He162 painting

[Franck Oudin]

Hello Folk's,
i am doing a model of the He162,and i was wondering how these planes were painted in the factory,by that, i mean,the difference between,the RLM 76 and the top colors such as RLM82 or 83,the color separation seems to be sharp,so was it painted with mask or on free hand with a slight overspray??

If you have an idea,please let me know.
Thank you in advance ad best regards FRANCK.

[Roger Gaemperle]

Hello Franck,

Unfortunately, I can't anwer your question (although I would have expected that they didn't use a mask but a slight overspray), but I have a similar question:

What was the color of the nose on the unpainted He 162 (e.g. the ones found in the caves and White 6 of JG1)? Was it red primer? The color looks quite dark.

Regards,
Roger Gaemperle

[SMF144]

Franck,

I might have the answer for you? I took photos of 120086 that is part of the collection of the National Aviation Museum Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. This airframe is still in it's original factory camouflage and if you'd like, I could send you some of the images as reference?

For staters, take a look at this link. I'm not really happy with the text, but the photos should speak for themself.

http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/he162sf_1.htm

Stephen

[Franck Oudin]

Hello Stephen,
Thank you very much it seems to explain a lot to me it was painted in a straight line but without mask,probably not time.....

Thank you very much,and if you could send somes extras images, here is may adress.

All the best FRANCK.

oudin.franck@wanadoo.fr

[Simon Schatz]

Hi Franck!

Maybe this thread is interesting for you:

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=5568

I'm working with Klaus Herold on a He 162 project. He is currently building the He 162,White 6, W.Nr 120231 in scale 1/32.

See here: http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/in...ic=8685&st=390

I prepare a 4 side view of that plane.

Cheers, Simon

[Roger Gaemperle]

Hi Simon,

Couldn't the nose be painted in red primer rather than dark green? As far as I have seen so far wooden parts were commonly painted with a red or yellow primer. But then, I am no expert regarding RLM colors....

Klaus' He 162 looks fantastic. I've been following his projects for a while now.

Regards,
Roger

[Simon Schatz]

Roger!

I'm trying to answer that question since I have started my study on the He 162, and asked many authors and researchers around the world, but it seems that nobody can answer that.

As there is no colour picture of White 6 is avalible I think it's not possible to answer that. Have a look at the He 162 standing in the salt mine Tarthun. There the nose caps have different colours. I can't understand why. So it could be possible that the nose was just the colour of the primer, but it could also be another RLM colour.

Cheers, Simon

[Franck Oudin]

Thank you guy's,but what do you think about what i asked was it painted with masks or on free hand???

All the best FRANCK.

[Yves Marino]

Originally Posted by Franck Oudin

Thank you guy's,but what do you think about what i asked was it painted with masks or on free hand???

All the best FRANCK.

Franck,
3 weeks ago I visited the Canada Aviation Museum in Rockcliffe (Ottawa). The storage wing, where they keep the Volksjaeger is now open for visitors. With some good words I got a guided tour only for me! - 20 minutes for taking pictures. I was there actually to see another a/c (B-25 Mitchell), but used my minutes for more. I haven't been so lucky (as Stephen was before) to make photos of the wings or the engine, because of their bad placing in the storage, but I made some big scale photos of the He 162 fuselage, tail etc. I'll send you some of them so you can research the paint and the lines.

[Simon Schatz]

Yves!

Could you maybe also send me these pictures to: simon_der_flieger (at) yahoo.de

Thank you,

Simon