**** DONE: 1/48 Bf 109F-2 - Winter War / Eastern Front WWII

• Oct 21, 2014

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Just need to add some wiring and the side panels are done...



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• Oct 21, 2014

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Looks good Geo and thanks fro the info on Gator Glue. Did you buy it in PG or did you have to get it on line?

 

• Oct 21, 2014

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Thanks Andy. Got it online. I'm a sucker for trying new stuff and I got it real cheap off of eBay. Haven't seen it cheap(shipping-wise) since then.

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• Oct 21, 2014

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I'll have a look for it here in town.

 

• Oct 22, 2014

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I decided to use the kit rudder pedals as they weren't that bad, they will be buried and have have a few kits with worse pedals. Touch ups needed. I made the straps from Tamiya tape. What color were the straps? In the Pilots Notes, they look like they are leather.



The start of the wiring, in situ for photo...



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• Oct 22, 2014

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• Oct 22, 2014

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• Oct 22, 2014

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Agreed.

 

• Oct 22, 2014

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Great details on the cockpit! Foot pedals are something that I always feel regretful about... all that nice detail that gets buried!

 

• Oct 22, 2014

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Thanks gents. Took today off work as I had one vacation day left. Just waiting around now for the 2 o'clock bus back to camp. I did manage to put some straps around the wires and glue them into position. I also brush painted the wheel wells with the Vallejo Modelair version of RLM02 as my last remaining drops of Pollyscale succumbed with age. The Modelair brush paints smoothly.
That's it for me until Tuesday, have a great rest of your week guys.

Geo

 

• Oct 22, 2014

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Nice work so far Geo!

 

• Oct 22, 2014

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The pedals were indeed leather Geo and I usually paint them brown.

 

• Oct 23, 2014

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Lovely bit of progress George, like the cockpit wall additions and yes a shade of brown or tan for the foot straps.

 

• Oct 24, 2014

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Lovely work, George. That bird is looking good.

 

• Oct 25, 2014

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Good stuff George!

 

• Oct 30, 2014

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Thanks all. Worked on the I.P. last night, all P.E., with just one tiny handle left to install. Right sidewall is done(until I noticed the missing oxygen hose while resizing the photos) with touch-up needed...



As I was doing a test fit of the fuselage, I noticed about a 1mm gap just ahead of the windscreen. I placed the windscreen in position to make sure it fit(it did) and will have to deal with the gap. The two cowl pieces added to the fuselage halves fit pretty good so I'm not sure what happened here...



...I'm not going to add the engine so I've gotta figure how to deal with the exhausts and cowl guns.

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• Oct 30, 2014

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Innards are done and thanks to macro, touch-ups are necessary. As mentioned in an earlier post, I couldn't get acrylic RLM66 to cover the RLM41 on the I.P. so I'm stuck with Eduards interpretation of I.P. color. I've also added some plastic strip in front of the windscreen and will shape that up in between period.



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• Oct 31, 2014

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Looking very good Geo. I don't recall having that gap on mine but looks like it's working out ok for you.

 

• Oct 31, 2014

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• Oct 31, 2014

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Thanks guys. Was just about to button things up when I went back to Andy's build and read about the fit issue concerning the firewall interfering. Off to grind.

Geo