Best 1/72 Bf 109 Emil?

[Master Zen]

If Academy had done an 'F', it would probably have the same sahpe problems as their 'G'. (Insufficent dihedral in the wings, wings too thin (depth) leading to lower fuselage lines being too shallow as well from the trailing edge of the wings forward, and a lower front fuselage that is too narrow for the inverted V-12 DB engine - kinda like all those Hurricanes with too much taper at the front end for Merlin to actually fit within.)

Regardless of cost, the FineMold F, G, and K are by far the best options for these in 1/72 if accurate shape matters.

Pfft, I still think it looks the part

[Touvdal]

Regarding the accuracy of the Acadamy 109, it is apps. 0,8 mm to narrow at the wing roots, but spot on at the front, also wing apps 0,8 mm to thin.

But this is hardly notiable in this scale, and the over all look is nice, the only thing to do is rounding of the tailwings.

The fit of this kit is very good, and goes together very easy.

I would also hope that Acadamy would issue a F, conveting the current G into a F, is to much work have tried recently. But doing a G-2 is a lot easier have just converted 8.

I know that Finemould is the best but to expesive, if you want to build 50.

Then of course I also have some E on the way, all from ICM

cheers

Jes

Edited September 25, 2010 by Touvdal

[Chuck1945]

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I would also hope that Acadamy would issue a F, conveting the current G into a F, is to much work have tried recently. But doing a G-2 is a lot easier have just converted 8.

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cheers

Jes

Yeah, it can be done, of course as soon as I did make that conversion, the FineMold kits came along.

[Ham]

I finally got hold of an ICM Bf 109E-4 kit. I see what you guys mean now. It appears to be a direct copy of the Tamiya kit excpept for the extension on the aft fuselage. Since I have three Tamiya Bf 109E's in the stash, I might try and cut the rear fuselage at the jacking point hole and add an exntension to bring it to the correct length. An extension made from sheet styrene would be pretty easy to fit to the fuselage shape. Has anyone else done that?

[christian Boehm]

I finally got hold of an ICM Bf 109E-4 kit. I see what you guys mean now. It appears to be a direct copy of the Tamiya kit excpept for the extension on the aft fuselage. Since I have three Tamiya Bf 109E's in the stash, I might try and cut the rear fuselage at the jacking point hole and add an exntension to bring it to the correct length. An extension made from sheet styrene would be pretty easy to fit to the fuselage shape. Has anyone else done that?

Yes !

I did it several times frst on the hasegawa Emil which was too short and a had heavy wrong nose shape , and last year on 3 Tamiya models

If you watch both Tamiya and ICM together with good plans and scale lenght calculation, you will notice that:

- the tamiya has the right lenght but, through wrong fuselage couple proportions, has not the wider last couple

- the ICM corrected this but through a 1 mm too long fuselage

I also built 3 ICM kits and decided to neglect this 1 mm overlenght !

christian

[Ham]

Regrading the overall length issue of the Tamiya and ICM kits, to quote Mr. Spock from Star Trek, "fascinating." I decided to do a little surgery on this Tamiya E-3. I cut the fuselage in two places and inserted card stock to make the length match the ICM kit. I used the ICM fuselage as a guage to determine where to make the cuts. You can see which panel lines are closer together when you match up ICM and Tamiya fuselage halves.

I'm not sure this is something I would do again but it is not very hard. Those are the ICM fuselage halves laying on the table.

Sorry, this photo is not very good. I should have put down a ruler and taken the shot from a 90 degree angle to the fuselage.