**** DONE: 1/48 Bf109F-4 J.Steinhoff - Your Favorite Aircraft of All Time GB

[Rogi]

She turned out great love the engine

 

[T Bolt]

Beautiful Andy!

To get the flat spot right on the wheels I put a full sheet of sand paper on a flat surface and set the model on it and gently (very gently) move it back and forth with a little downward pressure flattening the wheels.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Good tip Glenn.

 

[Njaco]

She looks great Wayne......I mean Andy!

 

[meatloaf109]

Well done!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys.

Glenn, yes, I ended up doing something similar.

 

[Wurger]

Excellent. And thank you Andy for the info about the Werk Nummer.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks Wojtek, and you're welcome.

 

[Wayne Little]

Sweet work Andy!

 

[Crimea_River]

Cheers Wayne. Did a bit of silvering repair last night and found out solv-a-set melts dullcoat if left on too long. Nothing major and easily fixed.

 

[rochie]

brilliant Andy, i really like this one

 

[Crimea_River]

Cheeers Karl. No work on this one tonight as I was out on the links.

 

[Airframes]

Links trainer?

 

[Crimea_River]

Will work on her tonight. Supposed to rain.

 

[Airframes]

What, you mean it doesn't rain all the time over there? Incredible! It's so wet here, that a local company have published a new magazine, one of those 'In twenty weekly parts' things, Part One provides the keel for an Ark, with subsequent editions providing the parts to build the complete vessel ....

 

[meatloaf109]

I like link sausage.

 

[woody]

Looking good Andy.

 

[Wayne Little]

Cheers Wayne. Did a bit of silvering repair last night and found out solv-a-set melts dullcoat if left on too long. Nothing major and easily fixed.

Gotta watch out for any of them left on too long Andy...i usually apply with a fine brush and soak it up quickly with a tissue to reduce the problem, as you say easily fixed though...

 

[Crimea_River]

My technique's been to dab some on the silvered part, then poke the area with the end of a sharp x-acto blade til the silver disappears. Working well now and should hopefully get these areas sorted tonight. Pics then.

 

[Crimea_River]

Onwards....

I've now finished fixing the silvering and did a bit of gloss coating over these areas before applying some dullcoat again to finish. In the meantime, I did a bit of work on some fiddley bits.

Pitot tube made of Evergreen rod and stretched sprue:

The finished cowl with all fasteners opened and areas blackened with pastel, ready to be glued in the open position:

Before attaching the cowl, I wanted to replicate the catches for the cowl fasteners seen within the circles in the below pic:

I made these of rod and folded paper....

..then painted them 02 and CA-glued them into the engine bay.

Getting close now.