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

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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...



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

Geo
 
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.



Geo
 

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