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This is my first post on this site - although I have coming here for several years now for references & guidance. Partly thanks to Covid lockdown, I have returned to the hobby after a break of around 40 years, I have had to learn new painting techniques with acrylics and an affordable airbrush kit from Hobbycraft (originally intended for decorating cakes) I have made a couple of small single engined WW2 fighters, now I wanted to turn my hand to some of the models I made as young lad, and improve on them. Currently I am making a collection of WW2 nightfighers - with limited space I am going to stay with 1/72 scale for the time being. I have made a Blenheim NF I with AI Mk III arrays, a Beaufighter NF II with AI MkIV arrays, and I am currently building a Heinkel He-219 Uhu and a Bf-110-G - all from vintage Frog kits. This has given me a lot to research, and I have made a few minor mistakes (for example finding out the radar operator in the early beaufighters squatted with a greatcoat under his knees behind the pilot in the Blenheim, and not in the navigators seat in the cockpit as I had assumed and depicted when I scratch built the interior of my glasshouse 1940 nightfighter. For my Bf-110G I splashed out on an Eduard Brassin cockpit interior kit, and I have also amassed a small collection of antenna kits for Fug 202, 212 in brass or plastic - so heavy surgery was needed in the fuselage as I rejected the marshmallow puppets of the kit to allow me to install a full cockpit, with guns & radar equipment, and crewed by figures from PJ Productions in Belgium It looks like I will have to set up a website where I can host my photos before I go any further, I will set something up in AWS & post a few photos of the first stages - starting from this The hideous "Mr Blobby" crew figures can be seen at the top right of the bag in this photo- 53 replies
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Hi all this will be my second build for this group build i should be starting this by the weekend here is the boxtop and sprue shots and what 109 im going to try and model. Im going to use the Revell marking for this nightfighter from there E4/7 Trop boxing of the Hasagawa kit which is one of my fav kits to build and ive have build this 109 in the past but my kids and cat got hold of it and now it gone. This is the 109 im trying to do, now i have read somewhere that the codes on the side should be red but i havent got red codes and i dont care i prefer the grey codes. I also have the Falcon canopy set No 50 which includes the Peil IVG Direction finder cover but can anyone tell me how it fits on and what it looks like inside the cover otherwise ill just stick it on the bottom and leave it empty. More soon Thank you Richard