**** DONE: 1/48 Bf109G-6 "Yellow 17" - Night War of WWII (1 Viewer)

Jeff Hunt · Dec 4, 2015

Great build Andy. Looks like a natural born killing machine.

Jeff

Crimea_River · Dec 4, 2015

As long as it's not killing me! Thanks Jeff.

Landing gear done with brake lines applied:

I fixed the fuselage band colour and it's now closer to the numeral colour. A matte coat was then applied - Future with 5 drops of Tamiya Flat Base. I've given up on my Testors Acylic Flat Clear as it's turned dusty on me lately.

And now standing on its own feet:

Should knock this one off this weekend. Thanks for looking.

rochie · Dec 5, 2015

I like it !

Wurger · Dec 5, 2015

JKim · Dec 5, 2015

A very cool scheme Andy! Great work on the ID stripe fix and the landing gear too!

Airframes · Dec 5, 2015

Nice ! When you say 'knock it off', do NOT knock it off the bench !

Gnomey · Dec 5, 2015

Looks great so far Andy!

Vic Balshaw · Dec 5, 2015

Very nice indeed Andy.

Crimea_River · Dec 9, 2015

Well, completion of the model did not happen. Pretty busy with Calgary Hurricane restoration stuff, researching the paint scheme and preparing a shop drawing. Nonetheless, I got a bit done. I added some home made shoulder belts which are good enough to be partly visible through the closed canopy and stuck some brass barrels in the cannon gondolas.

Not very happy with the windscreen and rear canopy fit.

Wayne Little · Dec 10, 2015

looking good despite the small niggles...

Wurger · Dec 10, 2015

JKim · Dec 10, 2015

Given that close-up photos are so unforgiving, the canopy fit looks decent. Great work on the belts and guns!

Airframes · Dec 10, 2015

Agree with all - looks good to me.

Gnomey · Dec 10, 2015

Great work so far Andy!

Crimea_River · Dec 10, 2015

Thanks all.

JKim said:
Given that close-up photos are so unforgiving, the canopy fit looks decent. Great work on the belts and guns!

Believe it or not, I had already sanded down the width of the fuselage at the rear canopy AND sprung the canopy piece wider at the bottom before gluing with CA. I could not sand any further without making the cockpit sill look tapered, nor could I risk widening the part further without breaking it so this was as good as it was going to get. The basis for this Italeri kit is the Academy one. Had I known, I may not have bought it.

JKim · Dec 10, 2015

It sounds like you did all that you could do without crossing that "line" that might result in a broken part. It really doesn't look that bad in the close-up photo so I'm sure it's barely noticeable in person. The only other thing I could think of would be to thicken the rear frame of the canopy by adding strip of thin styrene. Probably easier said than done... it's a bit of complex curve along the top edge.

Crimea_River · Dec 10, 2015

Maybe....except that it fits OK at the top. Widening the top would have caused a step in the clear part to fuselage joint and I would have had to reshape the clear part.

C'est la vie. It is what it is, and all that stuff.

Wayne Little · Dec 11, 2015

Did the best you could with the cards you were dealt Andy.

Airframes · Dec 11, 2015

If we're talking about the rear (fixed) canopy section, I think it's more than acceptable. Remember that this, although 'fixed', was jettisonable, along with the opening section, and did show a joint, as it was not 'blended in' to the fuselage.
Once the main canopy is in place, and under 'normal' viewing conditions, as opposed to a macro lens, I think it will be fine - OK, perhaps not as good as you'd like it, but good enough.

Crimea_River · Dec 11, 2015

Thanks everyone.

I'm pretty much at the point now where all the bits and pieces that need to go on now are done and painted. A final inspection, touch up and spots of dirt will be applied tomorrow or Sunday and I'll then get my finished pics up then.

The machine gun fit was something I should have foreseen and attended to before painting as the troughs are too shallow where the gun stubs are to go. To fix this, I drilled out the troughs at the ends and deepened the area with a jeweler's file. The gun muzzles were then drilled out, glued in place, and painted.

The armour plating was installed in the canopy with the supports scratch built and the canopy was put in place. Of course, after it got glued in, any hidden dust particles suddenly felt compelled to come out of their hiding spots and find their way to the inside of the clear parts.

I discovered very late that I had clear nav lights left over from my Zvezda 109 kit and set about doing another thing that should have been done before painting. The Italademy kit does not have clear parts here, just molded-in panels so I set about cutting these out, installing the Zvezda clear parts, filing them smooth, and then repainting the area. The kit pitot tube was also tossed in favour of a scratch built one.

Thanks for looking in and for your kind support. Another hour of work or so and it'll be done.

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