**** DONE: GB-58 1/72 He219 - Night Fighters all Eras

[Wurger]

 

[A4K]

I think it looks bloody awesome Walter. I'll be a very happy man if I can get mine to look like that!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice one mate, I think you have hit the nail on the head there.

 

[Wayne Little]

Not bad at all....have another suggestion for you to try......see PDF attachment.

 

[Wildsau]

Thanks Wayne

 

[Gnomey]

Nice work so far!

 

[Wildsau]

Hi everyone just a quick update. I've attached the landing gear for a test on nose weight. At the moment I'm 3 grams shy of stopping this being a tail sitter. If I can put more weight around the cockpit area all good if I have to use the front of the engines then I think I'm going to need more. Wish me luck.

 

[Wildsau]

Agh! Just had a light bulb moment. I'm going to replace the front wheel bay doors with fabricated lead to match the plastic parts.

 

[Wayne Little]

Good idea...!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Interesting idea. Looking forward to seeing how they look.

 

[Wildsau]

Here are the replacement bay doors.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[Wildsau]

Decals need to go on soon. When i opened the box the decals were yellow so I have had them in the sun for the past 2 weeks for a few hours each day. What do you think, usable? If I find some other white balkenkruez I'll use those. I'm pretty sure they had wit one's the top wings.

 

[Wurger]

Looking good. I would keep them in the sun a little bit longer and then cover the entire decal sheet with the gloss non-yellowish clear coat.

 

[Wayne Little]

Those doors look good.

 

[A4K]

I should have white Balkenkreuze in the right size Walter. I'll check my stash when I get home from work.

 

[Wildsau]

I should have white Balkenkreuze in the right size Walter. I'll check my stash when I get home from work.

Thanks, I found a pair in white but I may not have to use them they may be in black anyway. Unless there's evidence to the contrary.

 

[Wurger]

I would be careful of the Balkenkreuze for the Uhu. Looking at a couple of images with the kite I noticed that there could be different variants of the marking used. These could be from the standard LW crosses to the low-visibility ones. It looks like Germans tried to limit the using of the white especially for the night kites. So no strict rule for the markings. IMHO a pic of the particular plane would ne useful.