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  1. Good stuff! Between us I think we have enough 109s to fight a small war!
  2. https://uk.airfix.com/community/blog-and-news/workbench/impending-return-butcher-bird Airfix blog from this week focusing on this kit. More details on the schemes are included.
  3. Assembled the various bits on the canopy for the G-6/AS and did some more work on small parts. The next job is adding the wingtip lights and masking the canopies. Then these will be ready for paint. Here, everything is again dryfitted together for the photo. I'm thinking about painting the wings separately on these builds. The fit is more than good enough to do it, and it might make the task a lot easier. Unlike the previous Eduard Bf109s I've built, the prop on these is very loose. Too loose to sit correctly and will just fall forwards. To solve this I added a layer of primer inside the hole on the fuselage and around the prop axle.
  4. I started chipping away at some of the smaller parts today. One set of landing gear needs painting in RLM 23. Citadel Mephiston red was used to base them and then Vallejo rlm 23 was airbrushed over. I find Vallejo rlm 23 has quite poor opacity hence the red base to start from. I also did the armour panels for the canopies. Installed in one of the canopies, which was then glued in place on the model. I really like these Erla canopies. I only have one model with one in my growing collection of 1/72 Bf109s, which is an academy kit I built last year (link). Not the best kit.
  5. I'm currently building a Bf109G-6/AS and G-14/AS from the Gustav Pt.3 dual combo set (WIP thread: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235144856-adams-big-bf109-thread/). The kit supplies a variety of tyres and indicates that you should choose between parts U73 and V26. U73 is a smooth tyre with no tread and V26 has tread, but otherwise appear to be the same dimensions. The printed instructions also give the option of parts P14 or S14 which are the wider ones that as I understand it would only be seen on Bf109s with the larger rectangular bulges on the wings; this option has been deleted in the updated PDF instructions (https://eduard-cdn.oxyshop.cloud/out/media/2150.pdf). Gustav Pt.2 and Pt.1 similarly offer the choice between three styles of tyre. However, at no point does Eduard indicate which tyres to use for each scheme. Can anyone give any further info about the different tyres?
  6. I had a look at buying a set of small parts overtrees to make use of the extra fuselage/wing sprue in the Royal Class kit, as an alternative to sacrificing the build of a G-14. For a fiver I thought why not... But they wanted more than 20 quid in postage!! Don't think so. Would be cheaper to just buy a profipack with all the etch and masks included.
  7. Both sets of wings now have all flaps and ailerons in place. Dryfitting these, I've got two things that look a lot more Bf109 shaped! I'm now adding the front part of the canopies to avoid accidentally knocking the gun sight off.
  8. Not a huge amount to report today. I have painted the insides of the radiators and spent far too long reading up on how these are controlled and searching photos for a position I like the look of. I've decided for the G-6/AS I will be positioning them fairly open. The three eduard 109s I've completed so far are either in a position with everything dropped, which means you can't really see the detail inside the radiators and that etch goes to waste, or it's totally closed up with the same effect. Looking at photos of airworthy Bf109Gs, the upper part in a neutral position and the lower part steeply dropped seems to be possible configuration.
  9. Tamiya is masked up I'm adding the etch to the wing radiators as this will be visible
  10. I've started adding the various bits to the wing. For the G-6/AS I've modelled the outboard flaps dropped. For the inboard sections I want to do something different to how I've modelled them on my other Eduard Bf109s (closed neutral position or upper and lower halves dropped). I must admit that I'm not overly confident on which positions these could be in, but it seems from photos like there's quite a variety of configurations and the upper parts could even go to a negative setting (ie pointing slightly upwards). More reading is required! Despite all the great info Eduard provides in these dual combos, they offer no guidance on how to position these other than bend the parts or don't.
  11. Wings! Not much to report on these, it's pretty straightforward
  12. Tamiya is back on the bench. The canopy armour panel was painted up and installed. I didn't think that the masking tape seatbelts would interfere with the armour panel, but unfortunately they did. The easiest solution was to take a file to the bottom of the panel until it fit.
  13. Not the best photo but I did the radiator. Etch parts are provided for each face but I didn't feel that they are necessary. The moulded detail is quite good on this version. The smaller version which you can see on the completed G-6 doesn't have moulded detail so I would use etch on that version.
  14. To be fair I think the three part versions make sense. The base part needs changing for different versions and moulding the intake itself well as a single part may be challenging. There's a nice raised ridge down the side of the intake which can be used to hide the seam. I don't think they're that fiddly and don't really add much work to the kit. Even Airfix's Bf109F starter set moulds the two halves separately- though it doesn't have a separate base part as it doesn't need to account for half a dozen different versions
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