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AIRFIX 1/48 Bf109F
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Lucky13
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Oh, you have moods do you, noooooo.....reeaaalllllyyyy.....wooow!
Oh, right....
Bacon!
(good stuff btw!)
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Jasiu, Jasiu... 
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Jan's been at the 'T' Stoff again !
I would like to point out that 'Maxi' should be painted in Yellow, if you want to paint it...or I could send you the decal....
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fubar57
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Many thanks for the input and offer Wayne. I'll recolor the attachment Wojtek gave me and we''ll see what develops.
Geo
Geo
No worries mate your call...
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fubar57
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Added some brake lines to the landing gear.
And now a small victory. Test fitting the wings to their respective fuselage halves and realizing, after about 10 minutes, that I am going to have to deal with some whacking great gaps on the bottom, I put the parts down and grabbed the ICM box to study the paint scheme. Now, I have done this about 3 times over the past week but today something caught my eye. I stared at it for a bit and then looked at the decal sheet for probably 20 seconds and that's when I finally saw this....
My extreme thanks to Wojtek for putting in the effort to set me up with a printable version of the decal and Wayne, for his offer to supply the decal.
Geo
And now a small victory. Test fitting the wings to their respective fuselage halves and realizing, after about 10 minutes, that I am going to have to deal with some whacking great gaps on the bottom, I put the parts down and grabbed the ICM box to study the paint scheme. Now, I have done this about 3 times over the past week but today something caught my eye. I stared at it for a bit and then looked at the decal sheet for probably 20 seconds and that's when I finally saw this....
My extreme thanks to Wojtek for putting in the effort to set me up with a printable version of the decal and Wayne, for his offer to supply the decal.
Geo
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fubar57
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Innards are mounted and the rear of the fuselage is glued together.
Landing gear finished.
As mentioned earlier, Airfix would have one mount the armor too far forward so I filed off the mount, drilled and inserted wire.(I know its not centered, but I got tired of puncturing my thumb with the scalpel making pilot holes so I took the best ones). To line up the wire to where the holes in the bulkhead(?) will be, I'll put silver paint on the ends of the wires, touch the bulkhead(?) and hopefully, voila!!
Geo
Landing gear finished.
As mentioned earlier, Airfix would have one mount the armor too far forward so I filed off the mount, drilled and inserted wire.(I know its not centered, but I got tired of puncturing my thumb with the scalpel making pilot holes so I took the best ones). To line up the wire to where the holes in the bulkhead(?) will be, I'll put silver paint on the ends of the wires, touch the bulkhead(?) and hopefully, voila!!
Geo
Crimea_River
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Glad you found the decal Geo.
If it matters to you, the 109's flexible brake hose made a complete loop rather than just a bend - for next time:
If it matters to you, the 109's flexible brake hose made a complete loop rather than just a bend - for next time:
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Good stuff Geo.
Not quite sure what the wires on the head armour are for?
The armour was fixed to the bottom frame of the canopy, with support brackets from the rear to the side frames of the canopy.
Not quite sure what the wires on the head armour are for?
The armour was fixed to the bottom frame of the canopy, with support brackets from the rear to the side frames of the canopy.
Lucky13
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Good stuff George...sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees....
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Thanks Wojtek. I've built 3 other 109's and they all mentioned semi-gloss black for the hubs. I have no idea what I was thinking. Tail wheel was 02, yes?
With regards to the armor plate, Airfix has it located too far forward so I'm just moving it back about 3mm. As there is no provision to mount the plate to the canopy, I inserted some wire into the plated, drilled holes, and am mounting it thusly, hoping for the illusion that it is mounted to the canopy.
Off to repaint some hubs and figure out what I'm going to do about the upper cowl halves. Initial trial fitting reveals so much sad.
Geo
With regards to the armor plate, Airfix has it located too far forward so I'm just moving it back about 3mm. As there is no provision to mount the plate to the canopy, I inserted some wire into the plated, drilled holes, and am mounting it thusly, hoping for the illusion that it is mounted to the canopy.
Off to repaint some hubs and figure out what I'm going to do about the upper cowl halves. Initial trial fitting reveals so much sad.
Geo
Yet it was the RLM02 usually.
The armour plate was attached to the side open part of cockpit conopy. It is clearly seen in all pics of Bf109Fs with opened cockpit. I think very easy to imitate with a Bf109F model of any scale.
BTW. All looks very good.
Nicely done so far!
Night Fighter Nut
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Doing a great job on her. Following along quietly and learning new things about this plane.
