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A Nose Full of Teeth: The Bf110 Haifisch Zerstorer

Wing and Fuselage Assembly

The wings were assembled next, and the fuselage was inserted onto the completed wings. However, this did not go together too smoothly and gave rise to gaps on both wing roots. I fixed this problem by using stretched sprue, which I drew out to the thickness of the gap, and stuck it into the gap using superglue. After a little bit of sanding, the gaps disappeared.

The back wing assembly then followed without any more problems. A little bit of sanding eliminated a small step between the two halves of the fuselage. There is a small part at the very back that didn’t go together with the main fuselage completely, but using a nail file and some superglue as filler eliminated this irritant.

The propeller assemblies, excluding the nacelles, went on next. I figured I could always add the nacelles later, and anyway it could be a problem trying to paint the teeny-weeny nacelles once they were on the model. I rounded off this phase by attaching the bomb holders since they also had the same color as the undersides of the plane.