**** DONE: GB-58 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf110G-4 - Night Fighters all Eras

[Vic Balshaw]

Greayt stuff Andy and a good hint to others over fixing the tail parts after the main wing. Many instructions call for the tail first and I think this is bad planning by the manufacturers.

 

[Crimea_River]

Yep. See a lot of lopsided horizontal stabs when judging GBs. Hint, hint......m

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Yep. See a lot of lopsided horizontal stabs when judging GBs. Hint, hint......m

Got to watch those camera angles though, very deceptive.

 

[fubar57]

Looking good

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice work Andy with you on main wings ALWAYS first....!

 

[destrozas]

clear work!!! cool!!!

 

[Gnomey]

Lovely work so far Andy!

 

[Totalize]

with all here. Excellent detail work Andy.

 

[Donivanp]

As always great work. Cockpit is MIGHTY FINE... I do have the Mankau Petrick book and several volumes from Vesco. and about three of this kit (well both pro Modeler and regular release). Somethings just wrong with me as I have a special place for the 1101 Nice to see a super quality build...

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. Trying to keep it relatively simple as the kit's warts take away my desire to go nuts on detailing. This one will be all about the paint scheme so I'm concentrating on getting it all together more or less OOB.

The cockpit sill and roll cage have been painted with the hairy stick and the latter was installed. Very tough to line up the vertical posts with the holes in the cockpit floor. Had I known, I would have ignored the instructions and installed the seat after this step.

I'll put some rough home made seat belts in keeping in mind that I'll have the canopy closed. On the wings, the nacelles were clamped in place after painting the wells RLM 02. A bit odd but these go in before the wing uppers are glued on so I'm looking forward to an excellent fit where everything is visible....

Clamps removed and peering inside:

I never know exactly how to paint the surfaces inside the radiator fairing. Despite having shot 02 there, I'm starting to think these surfaces got the 65 lower camo all the way up to the rad. I'll go back and redo it unless someone has better info.

And I do hope that Revell/PM have stopped this nonsense:

Thanks again for the looks and likes. More soon, maybe.

 

[fubar57]

I like that well. simple but looks really nice with what you've done with it. At least the annoyance isn't among details

 

[Wurger]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Doing okay Andy but don't like that Ravell in-print, so bad and I'm hoping that I see dust on the elevator and not pitted plastic.

 

[Bustedwing]

Looks good so far. You think the ground crew got a bunch of kids to scribble all over it with spray cans ?

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far Andy!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks again. The wing uppers have been glued in place and now we are now filling and sanding - my least favourite activity but something I recognize that is important. I repainted the radiator areas in RLM 76 in preparation for gluing on the fairings.

I glued together the various bits that make up the flame dampers. These are nicely detailed, though the exhaust end is moulded closed so I started drilling these out.

The kit instructions provide templates to cut pieces for the armour plates around the nose and I opted to use these and glued on these optional plates that I cut from .1mm card. The seatbelts are just pieces of masking tape that should be fine when viewed through the closed canopy.

That's where we are as of right now. Thanks again for the looks and likes.

 

[fubar57]

Was not aware of armour plates

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice work Andy, am surprised at the closed ends to the exhaust outlet, nice smooth fix.

 

[destrozas]

very nice work, looks very very good

 

[Wurger]