They might be giants! Eduard 1/48 Bf 109 G-6
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Yes it's that subject of much interweb teeth gnashing, hand wringing, mud throwing and name calling ........ the Eduard 1/48 Bf 109 G-6. Rather than join in with all the sabre rattling I thought I'd just buy one and build it see if it really is that bad. It helps that I like Bf109 so even if I did find the finished model so over scale it barely fitted in the house it'd be a learning experience all the same ..... and you can never have too much mottling practice, plus by posting this here there will be some incentive to finish something for once!
Anyway it seems that it's not too bad after all, 2mm cropped off each wingtip and a shaved bulge at the wing-root and you're pretty much done. Then it's just an OOTB build, unless like me you swap the exhaust stacks, the kit examples are a bit chunky, so I'll be using a set of Quickboost resin items.
I'll be building it as kit option 2
Cockpit is pretty much there and just needs the fuel line added. This is a clear part so the glass section can be masked. After that it'll need the dash which is a lamination of pre-painted etch.
Anyway it seems that it's not too bad after all, 2mm cropped off each wingtip and a shaved bulge at the wing-root and you're pretty much done. Then it's just an OOTB build, unless like me you swap the exhaust stacks, the kit examples are a bit chunky, so I'll be using a set of Quickboost resin items.
I'll be building it as kit option 2
Cockpit is pretty much there and just needs the fuel line added. This is a clear part so the glass section can be masked. After that it'll need the dash which is a lamination of pre-painted etch.
Edited by 72twink on Friday 19th September 00:19
A little bit of progress, the dash is a lamination of pre-printed etch pieces, it'll get a coat of flat along with the rest of the cockpit and then the dial glasses picked out in clear.
I then turned my attention to the exhausts, the kit items are lovely slide moulded, hollow ended, weld seamed items ....... that look nothing like 109 stubs so I'm using a set of Quickboost items.
Being slimmer in profile the holes in the cowlings are too big and so need reducing so the resin items don't look lost. Luckily the cowl edges have a returned lip or edge to them and it is a simple job to shave the moulded one off and then replace it inside the space with a similar sized length of Evergreen strip.
I should be able to close up the fuselage soon and start to actually build a plane!
I then turned my attention to the exhausts, the kit items are lovely slide moulded, hollow ended, weld seamed items ....... that look nothing like 109 stubs so I'm using a set of Quickboost items.
Being slimmer in profile the holes in the cowlings are too big and so need reducing so the resin items don't look lost. Luckily the cowl edges have a returned lip or edge to them and it is a simple job to shave the moulded one off and then replace it inside the space with a similar sized length of Evergreen strip.
I should be able to close up the fuselage soon and start to actually build a plane!
Edited by 72twink on Thursday 25th September 09:17
Brett Green spotted the exhaust issue in his first look at the kit when it was launched and suggested running a file over them to get a squarer profile but they are slide moulded with open ends so I can't see that being a complete solution. I've also seen at least one other build using the Quickboost items.
There doesn't seem to be too many being built (unlike 1/24th Typhoons), not openly anyway, all the builds I've seen are ones that have ended up in magazines.
There doesn't seem to be too many being built (unlike 1/24th Typhoons), not openly anyway, all the builds I've seen are ones that have ended up in magazines.
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