Cobi Small Army and Historical Collection 2018

no worries when ever i find them i like to share and keep everyone updated. i think a lot of the bricks get used up in the solid construction of the hull, i was looking at the instructions for the blyskawica on the cobi website and a lot of the bricks were used in the hull construction. cant wait for the m3 grant they did a great job

I don't think it's final and still what in prototype stage

It looks like it didn't fit somehow

Although those jumo engines are in one piece i really like them, especially the printed camo so i hope those are final

But somehow i don't think we will get those either, but a more brick like version

Also the nosepiece is printed in camo if you look closely
If we realy get all those printed parts we'll see in the end

I don't think that front wheel is final too

They made the nose section on the second prototype 1 stud longer and they used a new 1 stud wide top round fuselage piece ( i "customized" such part on my bf109 trop moc) which is a good thing because i already found it too short



I already made up my mind to use 2 sets to make a better one

With 2 sets you can make a better camo scheme on the wings but more important, i'lll make that fuselage camo more in a straight line ( so no fade out effect)

You can achieve that with using 2 sets

Also the one piece nose piece looks massive in that all over green color, so i'll definitly spray the bottom half in whitish grey ( the first time i'lll paint a cobi set, but for this one it just have to be done) and maybe paint the canopy correctly

You're welcome Binni!

And if those turbine inlets stay that way, you can also discard them and use something else, for instance only a lego cone brick of some sort

The only thong i can complain about is the glass canopy... It is taken from another model and doesn't precisly has the exact shape

For a real me 262 had infact a real slim fuselage, the cobi model is a bit on the "fat" side, but i still think they did a great job

If you want that triangle shaped fuselage this is the only way

I realy like that darkbrown a lot, i'm glad they used that one ( it is now more a reddish brown variant of violetbrown instead of a more violet one)

And another thing to make the me 262 better is the shape of the wing;

The angle of the wing where it is attached at the fuselage has to run inwards from fuselage untill it meets the jumo engine

Just switch that 2x6 slanted tile with the smaller 2x2 slanted tile (which lies next to it) to get the right angle ( even better to replace the 2x2 slant tile for a 2x2 normal tile)

Or maybe cobi sees it themselves in the final model




Another thing is when you buy 2 sets you can also make the wings a bit longer and maybe the fuselage longer if it turns out to be a bit short on the final model

Also i will not use that balkenkreuz tile at the side of the fuselage because it is way to small (it has to be bigger than those at the wings)
Could be that it will be a printed tile for a change....
I hope they change it in 2 bigger tiles (maybe 2x4) in brown and whitish grey and that they print a bigger balkenkreuz on it

You could say it's a matter of... Perspective