Hi everyone,

slowly, this bird is getting close to look like a '109'.

The landing-gear:

for this i used the aftermarket gears from Scale Aircraft Conversions, very good quality, and they are solid like a rock :evil_laugh:
With this, i used also some eduard PE, for the brake system, and some plastic from the box, and also some scratch copper wire.

When all is glued together, it looks like this:



The wheels are from Quickboost.



The rivets, on the surface of the fuselage and wings where made al little deeper with a needle.





Both main wheelbay's where fitted with self-adhesive foil to represent the canvas.



Also, some Eduard PE was added to some parts of the wheelbay.



The two MG17 barrels are from Master Details







Thats all for now.

Greetz

Danny

For now, i made a little further progress on the '109'

the horizontal stabilizers together with the elevators are glued onto the fuselage, together with the stabilizer struts.







The wing half's are now glued together, and some reinforcements styreen is glued into the space between the upper and lower wing half's.
This was done because the wing didn't quit match with the wing-root on the fuselage.
The upper wing half was lifted some 1/2 m/m when the styreen reinforcement was installed.





After that i tackled the engine cowl.
For this i used some Eduard PE part's, to give the cowl a more realistic appearance.
For me, the difficult part was the supercharger air intake, because the kit part was no more then a plastic part, with no realistic grills, that where closed also, so, i needed the help of Mr. Eduard.
Eduard gave me a nice little PE sheet, that had to be folded together with the help of my Etch-Mate.
After the air intake was folded, it was time to use my soldering iron, wich was very helpfull to give a solid bound to the tiny PE part.

This is the PE part, compared to the kit part.



Also, the Master metal MG17 barrels where fitted to the cowl.









The quickboost exhaust are glued with 5-minutes epoxy glue.



Because the '109' has a rectangular opening, aft of the propeller spinner, with no grilling, the interior of this compartiment show's allot of piping.
To get this effect also, i added some copper and styreen rods, to give a somewhat interior look.

Inside the engine compartiment, the wirering is glued with 5-minute epoxy glue.



Outside, it looks like this



That's all for now.

Greetz

Danny

Hi all,

the '109' slowly comes together, with some little extras, it is near to put the first layer of primer on her.

Today I finished the whole wing area, regarding the rivets, these where made a little bit deeper, for now, the whole plane is done regarding the rivets.

Some panels where glued onto the fuselage, some gave a great fit, for other, the fit was not so good.
Like this one, this is the panel that covers the two MG17's.



Time to get the Tamiya putty on the bench, with the help of some tape, this job was done in a second.





Also the other side, same problem.



The side panels, together with the engine cowl, where glued onto the fuselage.

Some dry-fit of the wing with fuselage, the fit seems to be fairly good.





The front and back leading edge's of the oil cooler, where not equally line up with each other, resulting in a more or less sloppy fit.



In a later stadium I will solve this problem.

For now, the two radiators are glued onto the lower wing section, together with some Eduard PE, it will give some boost to the details of this part.



I wanted to open the two radiator doors, so I used some Eduard PE bits.

Also the oil cooler door, I dropped a little, same story here, some Eduard PE was used for this.



You can also see that the leading edge's of the oil cooler are fixed, using some styrene.



The wings are glued to the fuselage, for now, only some minor details need to be added, before I start with the filling of the seems, and some sanding.





That's all for now, thanks for looking.

Greets

Danny

Last update for this weekend.

The fuselage and wings needed to dry before I could make an attempt with filling the seems.

In the meantime, I took a look at the propeller and spinner, and noticed the absence of the round tube in the middle of the spinner.
This hole trough the spinner made it possible to fire a canon trough the middle of the spinner, but in the 'E' version, this was never installed.
This tube with four holes in front of it, was very visible, so i decided to scratch it.

For this I used an aluminum tube, sanded the edge a little thinner, and drilled four holes in it.

This is the result.





This little tube was glued onto the propeller, just like the real one.



Four attempts where made before i was happy with the result.

In the meantime, the wing and fuselage was dryad enough, so I could begin with the filling of the seams.





Some more layers of putty are needed before the end result.

Thanks for watching.

Greets

Danny

Hi Danny,

Excellent work! The result should be tunning. I hope you will allow us to feature your model on the frontpage once it is finished...

Jean-Luc

Hi Jean-Luc,

that should be no problem, but still i first want to ask for permission by the owner, after all, it is his model, but like i said, i think it will be no problem.

greetz

Danny

Great looking model. I'm following your work as I'm building one myself. Mine will be OOB but I'm picking up lots of tips anyway. It will be my first German aircraft build. I look forward to seeing the end result.