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At glance she looks very nice. Panel lines are recessed and quite thin. Flaps are separate parts letting attach them down. The cockpit conopy divided into widscreen and slided hood. Interesting is that the conopy frame is a separate part too. There are two slided conopies included and one seems to be for the D variant while the second one for the K type. But there is attached the Hamilton Standard prop replic only.The main wheels have a tire thread and these tyres are a little flat at the bottom imitating the pressure when a plane stands on the ground, the tail wheel as well. The rudder is moulded as a detached piece. Ailerons aren't.The top wing halves have the wheel bay roofs moulded with them together and going into the fuselage up to its center line. Generally all details are moulded neatly. I haven't compared the model parts to drawings yet. So not much about dimensions of the model according to these plans.

Oh ... and I have forgotten.. it came with the P-51 together as well ...



 
Good haul there Wojtek. I'd guess the two different canopies are to allow for either a Dallas built 'D', or Inglewood built P-51D. A 'K' could be made by trimming the prop blades and using the 'higher' Dallas hood.
 
Oh yes... You are right Terry. These two conopies are for that.

And here the Bf 109E-4 sprue frames. The source: the net...





 
Looks good, almost a scaled-down version of their 1/48th scale kit, with a couple of compromises for the smaller scale.
Looks like they made the same error with the canopy though. The kits were designed using the Bf109E in the RAF Museum, which lost its original canopy during the war at some point, when under test with the RAE and RAF. The canopy fitted during restoration for Museum display was a 'G' type, from a 'Buchon'.
It'll be interesting to know if the landing gear legs are too long, as on the 1/48th scale kit, which might be due to measurements being taken with the aircraft on small jacks, to take the weight off the oleos.
 
Thanks my friend. I have three of the 1/48th scale kits to do, and I'm still figuring out the best way to correct the gear legs, that is, where to cut and pin, as the oleos are quite thin, or whether to just leave them as they are. I only need to remove the frames and polish one 'E4' canopy, as the other two will be 'E1' and 'E3' respectively, and a quick trial seems to show it should work out alright, even though the unwanted central frames are quite 'heavy'.
 
Dzieki Wojtku - both kits look great! I am now kicking myself too, saw that Mustang the other weekend in Pécs...(Doh!)

- Must get that '109 too some day..!

Couple of small criticisms:
-They shouldn't have seperated the canopy from the frame on the Mustang. Tamiya did the same, and it makes for a tricky gluing/filling job.
-Likewise the front windshield - much prefer when it is moulded one piece with the immediate fueslage section (as most companies do). Again, Tamiya made this same mistake
-Bf 109 tyres look extremely strange with that thick thread pattern. Wonder what they were trying to achieve.
 
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N4521U said:
Now would that be Guy Bordelon's Corsair????? Only Navy ace in Korea, I have an art print of his plane on my wall.
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Oh Yeah Bill, reason why I got it, you will have to take a pic of your Art print to see....

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Will be interesting to see, how you gonna deal with that 'edge' on the forward fuselage on that F4U-5 Mr. Little....
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you're right there is a 'step' won't be hard to eradicate that though, some careful scraping and sanding and blending...
 
Yep... the separate conopy frame is a copied idea of the Tamiya. Not too great though. Its attaching to the 'glazed' part of the conopy can cause nothing but troubles for beginners and less experienced modellers. It will require more attention to preparing of both contiguous surfaces of the frame and glass.

As far as these major wheels and tyre threads for the Bf 109E are concerned ... I agree that the thread pattern is too thick. But it can be easy corrected. The main problem is just the pattern and the diameter of wheel hubs. I think these are a little bit too small. Here is a pic of FalkeEins' finished model ( the image source: his site - FalkeEins Blog ) and the old Hasegawa one and the ICM Emil for comparing with the original one.









 
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Picked up this little sea bird for a little less than a tenner and two! (However, I'm a little disappointed because I searched the whole box and only found 1 tail! No sign of the other 55!)

 
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Looks like an interesting one Jim.
Just won this Hasegawa 1/32nd scale F-104 at a very good price. Just the right length and width to fill a cabinet shelf!
 

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Great scores guys!

Great pics too Wojtku, dzieki! The ICM and RS Models Bf 109X main wheels are the most accurate I've seen in 1:72. Most companies botch them.
 
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