The cockpit of the jet-powered Me 262A in color, printed on decal film and dimensionally tied to the 1:72 kit from Arma Hobby.
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The Messerschmitt Me 262 went into combat in 1944, and its cockpit is interesting precisely for how conservative it looks. The instruments stayed over from the piston generation, and only the rpm and temperature gauges for the pair of Jumo 004 engines were added. The seat was a simple metal shell, the side walls left the wiring and the linkages exposed. The pilot sat high under a long clear canopy, so a great deal of the whole space is visible once the model is finished.
The modern Arma Hobby tooling has decently molded structure in the cockpit, so this is not a patch for missing detail but a matter of color and legibility. The printed dials have sharp needles and white labels that a brush simply cannot hit in this scale. Anyone content with a dark hole under the canopy will not gain much from the set. Anyone building a model for a display case with the canopy open gains the most.
After a short dip in lukewarm water the film slides off the backing paper onto degreased gloss varnish; otherwise the edges start to lift. It pays to paint the plastic beforehand in a shade close to the print, because any gap at an edge then does not stand out. The whole procedure takes one evening and needs no special tools beyond tweezers and a soft brush.
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