Well, the 110 is back on the workbench after taking a hiatus to finish a kitchen reno. Needless to say modelling is more fun.
The cockpit is finished and the fuselage halves glued together. The fit was excellent and just little sanding will be needed on the fuselage joints. No putty so far!
Spent some time on the wheel wells. Some references I saw had bare metal panels as well as RLM 02 so that's how I painted them. I drilled out the holes in the back of the nacelles and added rivets using a scribing tool. I debated whether to cut out the sidewalls of the recessed area as these appeared to be uncovered with the spars exposed but talked myself out of it.
Currently working on the guns. I had a separate post going about the colour of the of the compressed air bottles (blue = same as oxygen?) and the tubing arrangements but no responses. So I stuck with the blue as suggested by Eduard and ad-libbed the stretched sprue tubing as best I could based on photos and other references in these threads. So far only two of the MG 17's are installed so I could finish the lower tubing. More pics to come from the finished gun bay when I get there.
There's a lot of great discussion in these threads and I've been reading related topics diligently. It's great to see John Vasco on board - John if you read this, you'll be happy to know that I bought a couple of your books and they're on the way! Based on other stuff I've read, I've heard opinions that the Kagero books are not always to be relied on - and I have two volumes of these on the 110. Great info from Evgeny, Maximowitz, and others has given me lots to chew on for colour schemes but I'm not yet decided.
The kit is for the C model but has the parts for the E. No trop filters and enlarged oil cooler fairings though. I'm sure I will do something in the Wespe theme and I have several related decal sheets but none have a Wespe scheme that I have the kit parts for. So it's down to maybe winter camo like this one but I don't have the white 'S' decal. Maybe I'll make it.
Kagero says this machine is an E-1 from II/SKG 210, pilot unknown. Spinners are white/yellow/black. Fuselage band and lower wing tips in yellow but the 'S' is not repated under the wings like on some other machines. Can any of you 110 afficianados verify this? There's also a scheme of Kutscha's machine, also an E-1 with code S9 + FP, with 'F" in yellow also of II/SKG 210. I've seen another Kutcscha machine as S9 +
NN but have decals for neither one but I could borrow/steal from elsehwere or maybe even make them.
Looking forward to feedback on schemes, references and any other constructive suggestions!