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Part of a series of end-of-year KUTA builds, which was prompted mostly by a very enticing looking GB calendar for 2023 and the disturbing realisation at the size of the stash when looking through it deciding what to build. I had intended to bunch them all together out of shame of clogging up the boards with more of my rubbish, but in the end opted not do on the basis that seperate threads might make future searches easier. This is the recent Revell reboxing of Cyber Hobby/Dragon's Sea Vixen FAW2 kit. The book on this kit is that it's well engineered, builds beautifully, but has a plethora of accuracy issues both large and small. I'd say that's a fairly accurate assessment, the fit is excellent, and the build a joy if one is able to resist the urge to modify, which had been my initial plan. In the end I made a fair few changes, most notably that I modified it to an earlier FAW1. Given the original CH tool was of this Mark, the modification is not as wholly involved as it might otherwise have been, since the later extended 'pinion' booms are just extra parts on a separate runner that overlay the existing FAW1 shape. Specifics can be found in the WIP thread linked below, but a quick summary of the changes from the instructions would be: Nose replaced with Aires Quickboost resin (I would recommend the shape of this one over the Pavla personally) Way out-of-scale kit pilot seat was replaced with a lovely Barracuda resin one. The random addition of a single Firestreak missile, stolen from another CH kit (the 'blue jay' boxing of their Sea Venom), since the kit only comes with rockets and redhats. In terms of kit modification: The observer hatch required sanding down and a decent amount of fettling required to fit the (fortunately still included) FAW1 clearpart to the reshaped FAW2 fuselage. The FAW2 wing booms were simply omitted various minor changes such as the painting of the canopy, choice of stores, and omission of the refuelling boom for the (also still on the sprue) earlier FAW 'horn'. There are of course other issues with the kit that may or may not trigger you (most notably the canopy shape), but being both unobservant and lazy, I opted not to correct them. I've given a more thorough list of post build thoughts on the kit, some of its issues, and some suggestions for modification at the end of the WIP thread for those also planning to build one. This model represents XJ586 from 890NAS operating from HMS Hermes in 1963 (shown below, from this video) and appears to be a later configuration of FAW1, which had the later style ridge beside the cockpit, and many of which (if not this particular aircraft) also had the FAW2-style refuelling boom. Being a cheapskate, I selected one from the video whose markings I could mash up from the kit decals (which incidentally were inconveniently thick, but well behaved). There are of course a few further inaccuracies in marking arising from this approach. These aircraft appeared to carry a single yellow training round firestreak (thanks to @Dave Swindell for a plethora of useful info on that), which is still on the pylon when landing, as this aircraft is depicted. The build was a bit of a love letter to Gunze, being finished mostly in Mr Color lacquers and varnishes, with the odd bit of Tamiya thrown in here and there, and some rather ineffective oil work over the top. It's also inadvertently turned into a bit of a showcase on how many different stages of weathering and shading you can put into a build without any noticeable effect on the finished model! Following my usual practice, I continue to serve up half finished dross to the RFI boards in the knowledge that, owing to my lack of enthusiasm for the necessary remedial action on the various issues (partcularly the massive glue damage on the exhaust underside), a 'properly completed model' is unlikely to ever occur. So with very little shame, I'm depositing my dog-eaten, coffee stained, partly missing homework here and then running off to play with some shiny new kits. Thanks very much for looking, thanks everyone following the WIP with helpful suggestions, tips and generally enough encouragement to allow the build to occasionally progress in spite of my laziness. WIP Cheers, Andy

#19/2020 After the Yugoslavian Bf110, here´s another one with non-German markings. Cyberhobby/Dragon kit, built it almost two times. The model was already in a progressed state when it had an accident....bought a new kit and my dad started all over again. Painted with Gunze H67 RLM65, Tamiya XF-22 RLM Grey and Gunze H64 RLM 71. Oversprayed the German markings with Gunze RLM02. EZ Line for antenna wires, brake lines and life raft ejection system , Eduard seatbelts. Build thread here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235071717-babylonian-schmitt148-messerschmitt-bf110d-3-sonderkommando-junck/#top The model shows one of the ZG76 aircraft that were sent to the middle east and served under Iraqi markings in May 1941. infos here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fliegerführer_Irak DSC_0001 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0002 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0003 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0004 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0005 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0006 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0007 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0008 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0009 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0010 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0011 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0012 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0013 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0014 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0015 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0016 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0017 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0018 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0019 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0021 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0022 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0010 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr