**** DONE: 1/32 Bf109F-4 - Winter War / Eastern Front WWII

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bit more progress to share....props and spinner prepped and assembled, cowling intake and side panel readied and fitted, upper cowl mg's fitted....
 

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Beautiful work Wayne! The cockpit details are great... I really like the delicate painting on the instruments and the headrest armor.
 
Thanks Guys, spent time dry fitting the E-3 Canopy from Eduard kit, carefully took out a couple of small square sections on the edge of the cocckpit edge making sure it was clean and tidy. Also did some sanding of canopy edges to get the fit to sit right. The first shot shows the dry fit sit before any changes, a close fit but not quite....
 

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Cheers Fellas, pushing along....cockpit fitted, fuselage joined....next up I fitted the small filler pieces in the underside of the upper wing (due to the bulge for the G-6 kit) these bits did not fit well and required extra filling and scraping and sanding to get to a nice flush surface, took a while and was a pain....
 

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