dirkpitt289
Master Sergeant
Well from where I'm sitting you can't tell you've had such an extensive hiatus from the hobby. I look forward to this and other builds from you.
Eduard 1/48 Bf-110C
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Well from where I'm sitting you can't tell you've had such an extensive hiatus from the hobby. I look forward to this and other builds from you.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks Dirk. I'll get to that 262 in the Group Build yet!
109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
8) nice progress
Heinz
Captain
With Daniel 
Doin' great man!
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Benevolens Magister
Looking very good so far.
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Here are some more progress shots taken with my new lens. Since the last update, I've been busy puttying and sanding and a coat of primer was applied to highlight any defects. There are still some areas that need to be gone over again but it's getting there.
First 2 Photos are top and underside primed. The tape over the nose is to hold the cowl on and protect the tiny gun barrels from getting broken off. I give them 50/50 chance of surviving the rest of the build unscathed. You can see that a bit of additional sanding was done at the underside wing root.
Photo 3 is a detail shot of the gap that was filled between the flap and nacelle. This was done with plastic card. You can see that the gap is much reduced from the huge canyons the were present in the previous progress post.
Photos 4 and 5 are close-ups of the cockpit that I couldn't previously shoot with the equipment I had.
Photo 6 shows an aftermarket exhaust stack made by Quickboost dry fitted in place. The are great parts. They cost 5 bucks for the whole set and save a ton of work assembling each individual stack and drilling them out as prvided by Eduard.
Hopefully I'll get a bit more done this coming weekend. Thanks for your continued interest.
First 2 Photos are top and underside primed. The tape over the nose is to hold the cowl on and protect the tiny gun barrels from getting broken off. I give them 50/50 chance of surviving the rest of the build unscathed. You can see that a bit of additional sanding was done at the underside wing root.
Photo 3 is a detail shot of the gap that was filled between the flap and nacelle. This was done with plastic card. You can see that the gap is much reduced from the huge canyons the were present in the previous progress post.
Photos 4 and 5 are close-ups of the cockpit that I couldn't previously shoot with the equipment I had.
Photo 6 shows an aftermarket exhaust stack made by Quickboost dry fitted in place. The are great parts. They cost 5 bucks for the whole set and save a ton of work assembling each individual stack and drilling them out as prvided by Eduard.
Hopefully I'll get a bit more done this coming weekend. Thanks for your continued interest.
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109ROAMING
2nd Lieutenant
Sweet!
8) Nice work man!
lesofprimus
Brigadier General
Very nice work...
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Benevolens Magister
Lovely job CR. I very rarely use aftermarket parts, but I have to say the Quickboost products are extremely good, and excellent value for money. There's no way I could have made the Beaufighter exhausts as good as their resin examples.
vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Beautifully done!
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Thanks Terry. Agree with you on the Quickboost stuff. I also got some exhausts for my Dora that awaiting assembly and they look equally good.
B-17engineer
Colonel
Awesome!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Lovely work Andy
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Crimea_River
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The Heavy Hitters GB had me putting this one aside while I worked on my Sturmvogel.
The chosen scheme is to complete this machine as a Bf-110 C-4 in worn winter camo as depicted on page 1 of this thread. Pics below of what the model looks like today. The yellow areas have been painted in preparation for masking and topcoat (Pics 1 and 2). Also, the canopy has been masked (Pic 3). Good thing that Eduard included precut masks otherwise this would have been a bigger chore than it already was. Some of these masks were slightly big so that by the time I put several on, the cumulative difference made the exposed areas too small so I ended up trimming a few.
Today was also spent on trying to determine/confirm exactly where the fuselage band started. Comparison of the Kagero profile and photo on page 1 and some fiddling with scaling from the photo confirmed to me that the width and location of the band shown on the profile is pretty close. Unfortunately, I'll need to widen the yellow strip I painted on the model as I didn't allow enough on the forward edge.
During the course of this exercise, I've found that the decals provided by Eduard for the fuselage Balkenkreuz scale to 900mm whereas Ullmann and Eagle Cals state that these should be 1000mm. Despite this, the Eduard crosses look perfect for the fuselage. Can anyone confirm if 900mm crosses were used on the 110 fuselage?
The chosen scheme is to complete this machine as a Bf-110 C-4 in worn winter camo as depicted on page 1 of this thread. Pics below of what the model looks like today. The yellow areas have been painted in preparation for masking and topcoat (Pics 1 and 2). Also, the canopy has been masked (Pic 3). Good thing that Eduard included precut masks otherwise this would have been a bigger chore than it already was. Some of these masks were slightly big so that by the time I put several on, the cumulative difference made the exposed areas too small so I ended up trimming a few.
Today was also spent on trying to determine/confirm exactly where the fuselage band started. Comparison of the Kagero profile and photo on page 1 and some fiddling with scaling from the photo confirmed to me that the width and location of the band shown on the profile is pretty close. Unfortunately, I'll need to widen the yellow strip I painted on the model as I didn't allow enough on the forward edge.
During the course of this exercise, I've found that the decals provided by Eduard for the fuselage Balkenkreuz scale to 900mm whereas Ullmann and Eagle Cals state that these should be 1000mm. Despite this, the Eduard crosses look perfect for the fuselage. Can anyone confirm if 900mm crosses were used on the 110 fuselage?
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vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Beautiful!
Heinz
Captain
Looking fantastic!
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Fantastic build Andy, great detail
