Tamiya 1/48 Heinkel He-162 A-2 'Salamander' - FULL BUILD

If the video looks bad for you, check your settings. For some reason all of my own videos always default for me to 480p, but I do shoot and upload in 1080.

Hello again everyone, today I will be building Tamiya's 1/48th scale Heinkel He-162 A-2 'Salamander', also known as the Volksjager in Luftwaffe service at the end of world war two.

I haven't really looked into the history of this kit, but I suspect it is either newer or mid-life Tamiya. The fit is incredible, almost no putty is needed and what putty was used was almost certainly a result of my own faulty building.

I had been poking at this one for years- I think I started building it like three years ago, and then got to primer, and then shelved it because I lost the canopy. But HUGE ups to Tamiya NA, because they got me a replacement clear sprue at no cost to myself even though it was absolutely my own fault for losing it.

As with everything from this run of builds I selected one major thing to try and work on in this project, and for this one it was an honest effort at post shading. So this became a vehicle to experiment with that, and I am quite satisfied with the result. Post shading isn't the easiest thing for a beginner to attempt, and to do it you basically need to possess and be confident in using an airbrush. I think mine are a bit too heavy, but for my first shot at this technique I think it's a decent result. I will continue trying this in the future on kits that I think would be best served by it.

I HAD a list of the music in this one, but I lost it. I'll try my best. See the pinned comments for the paint mixes I used.

None-marches pulled from:
   • [No Copyright Music] Woods - Acoustic Folk...  
   • Acoustic Folk Instrumental – Hyde - Free I...  
   • 10 Minutes of Relaxing Piano Music  

I can't actually remember which of these I used in this video but they were all in the media pool in my editing program so take your pick.
ME-109 Lied
   • Schweizer Militärmarsch "ME 109-Lied"  
Stuka Lied
   • Видео  
Bomben Auf Engeland
   • Bomben auf Engelland []  
Alte Kameraden
   • Видео  
Im Wald, Im Grunen Wilde
   • Im Wald, Im Grünen Walde + Lyrics  

I'm going to start hiding secret things down here as a little prize for people who read the description; I will key you all in on the next video.

June's video will be:
Airfix's 1/72 Bf-109 G6