A minor update on the 110. After working my way through the nacelles and office I wanted to take on a few less complicated steps
PIC 1: I glued together some external 300L droptank. Truth be told, I did cheat a little bit on this. I want this 110G-4 to be all out, the whole meat n potatoes radar, drop tanks etc. only to find out the G-4 weekend edition doesn't come with drop tanks
....no sweat...with three Eduard BF-110 kits in the stash I looked in those boxes, and sure enough the BF-110E Weekend Edition (for which I already have made plans that don't include drop tanks) provided a few drop tanks. Gotta love the multi-version parts-breakdown Eduard used for their 110 series. The racks I need to use for the drop tanks do come (also) with the G-4 weekend edition, so with that sorted out I was good to go. On a sidenote, I did look at the 1/48 Me-410 Andy is putting the finishing touches to, and kinda liked the way he made the drop tanks have a few visible dents and scratches to them. So I decided to try and do that as well 'cause I really liked then way that looked on Andy's Me-410. Basically what I did was file a few dents into them and slightly smooth them out with some sanding paper. If you look hard you might be able to see them already, but ofcourse they will hopefully show up more cleary with some paint on, and various techniques to pick out those dents. So since it seems right to give credit where it is due... Andy, thanks for that little bit of inspiration. BTW, I need to look up some decals for the drop tanks, since the 110G-4 weekend edition doesn't come with drop tanks, I doubt it comes with decals for them :S...oh well...that's something to work out at some later time.
PIC 2: show I glued together the exhausts/flame dampers. Fit is OK, but still requires some filing and perhaps a little filling/sanding, but I take it that won't be too much of a problem
PIC 3-5 these pics show I also made preparations for the exhausts to be installed on the engines (at some later time ofcourse) This involved glueing a few mounts onto the nacelles. These required some careful sanding/trimming as they are quite delicate (I cracked one in half too, but that one still came out OK, and with the exhausts placed on them it won't show anyway) Even with those mounts in place I'v found they can still can do with a little additional trimming to make them flush with the nacelles, but that will be easy too.