Bf109E-1 Jg54 Battle of Britain Group Build

[Wayne Little]

I cut out the vacuform canopy pieces tonight and got the rear one pretty well dressed up so it fits, but still have to work on the other two pieces. Vacuform canopies is NOT my favorite part of modeling!!! No pictures of it tonight hopefully tomorrow.

I hear ya man....and feel your pain.....

 

[T Bolt]

I still haven't gotten back to the vac canopy, but was spraying Future on the Spit this afternoon so did it on the E-1 also. I will give it a couple of days cure before I start the decals I also did some clean-up on various small parts so there ready when I need them.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Looking smart !

 

[P40NUT]

Great job so far, look forward to the finished work.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Looks good Glenn

 

[Lucky13]

Spiffing work old chap!

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[T Bolt]

Started the decals tonight. I'm taking it a little slower than with the Spit though. I finished the main decals on the left fuselage side, and about half the stencils. The Aero Master decals went on great using micro sol to settle then into the panel lines.

 

[Airframes]

Wow! It's suddenly come alive! Looks marvellous Glenn.

 

[Crimea_River]

I agree. It's a beauty alright.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Oh my Glenn that looks great

 

[B-17engineer]

Simply fantastic!

 

[T Bolt]

Did the rest of the major decals. Still need to finish the stencils.

 

[vikingBerserker]

NICE! The decals really makes it jump out.

 

[Crimea_River]

Very nice Glenn. I found the red walk way marks for the wings silvered on me a bit, despite the gloss coat. If I do it again, I may trim off the decal edges along the red lines with a straight edge. Doing that on my Spit now. Food for thought but great care is needed to not slice through the line.

 

[T Bolt]

Thanks for the warning Andy. I will probably set them in wet Future. I find that works well with decals that tent to silver, although it is somewhat messy and needs to be wiped down after with a paper towel dampened with Windex.

 

[Airframes]

Nice work mate, it looks brill! I remember having a similar problem with my 1/48th Bf109, with the wing'walk lines. I ended up masking and painting them.

 

[Wayne Little]

Looking real good Glenn....

 

[Wurger]

I echo the post above.