Walter Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Hello everyone Its finished I think, I'd like to spend a little more time on this but for now I'm calling it finished. This build took too much out of me. Starting with the kit by Italeri which I have to say is just average, with quite a few accuracy issues and build quality assembly harder than it needed to be. I did like the detail that was present though. This is my 3rd 109 and I've been buying kits from different manufacturers to see how they compare and this has been my least favourite, so I won't be buying another Italeri for a while, although I did buy a Me410 from Italeri before starting this one. Needless to say I won't looking at building that one for a little while I think. Apart from the ridiculous time needed for this build mainly due to fit issues, I had so much sanding and trimming to get things to go togethor as well as look right. Painting came up pretty nice (in my opinion) for my novice hands at air brushing and given I was getting extremely frustrated with this build I decided to use it as a test platform to test some airbrushing techniques, so it wasn't a total loss I was pleased with that. Then cam the final coat of matt clear. What else could go wrong! well when the clear dried it came up frosty. Now a little more sanding and respraying fixed that but I'm not going to do another coat of clear, too exhausted. Maybe another time when I've regained some sanity. 😖 The original plane pics are here as part of a colour discussion. Anyway here is my version of the test plane used to test the Fug217 radar system this eventually being used on 30 or so 109's and FW190's any various configurations. I only had to source photo's to go by and they weren't very good quality but none the less I did want to give it a similar apearance, although probably grittier than in real life but that was ok because I did like the look of the plane in those photo's. 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Monday Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Nice work on the conversion. Always good to out-of-the-ordinary types being built. BM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toryu Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 A true flying porcupine. I wonder how the aerodynamics worked. Great conversion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mig88 Posted January 11, 2020 Share Posted January 11, 2020 Great job on that conversion. Well finished! Miguel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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