Bill Cross builds Eduard''s Bf 109E-7 Profipack kit.

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Thanks!

It's a real beauty


Cheers Nick

Thanks, Andy, for taking this one "live."

Thanks, too, Nick, I appreciate the kind words. It's a challenging kit to wrestle to the ground, but the results are very nice if you can stomach the work, LOL!

Great work Bill, your build looks really well done. Not bad for a self-proclaimed treadhead :-) Take care JIm

Thanks, Jim. I will have a built review of Pacific Coast Models' Hurricane with metal wings in the next few days. I enjoy building the larger scale planes, and have a number of them in my stash. You guys teach me a lot here, and I'm glad to have a break from disputes about the right transmission covers on M4A1 Shermans, LOL.

Hi Bill

I'm jealous at the prospect of your Pacific Coast Hurricane! The kit's been on my wish list since it came out.

All the best

Rowan

Rowan, it takes some wrestling to the ground, especially the wing root issues. But it builds up into a honey.

Battle of Britain is my passion-- have the RoG JU-88 in the stash, and Mal is making up masks for a Spitty Mk.I. Trying manfully to resist the lure of the new DML Emil, so I guess you could say we're even in terms of envy, LOL!

Bill, which Spit do you have? What squadron are you planning to model? i think we're all pretty lucky, after all, we all deplete our stashes one kit at a time, good time to e a modeler!

I have the old, but very nicely-done Revell/Hasegawa 32 scale Mk.I/II. The fuselage needed rescribing, but it wasn't horrendous (try doing a Bf110 from RoG which has ALL raised panel lines). I got some resin weighted wheels and the Eduard Mk.V PE upgrade, though I didn't do the open flaps. Probably should have, but I'm happy with the results. It turned out very nice.

Mal Mayfield has promised me some masks so I can do a Spit from 602 Squadron flown out of Westhampnett by Osgood "Pedro" Hanbury in August 1940. I'll be doing a "mask build" showing the marking of the completed kit.

well if I'm not mistaken, that was the kit i finished and posted here a bit ago on my adversaries post. Is the cockpit devoid of any real detail? If s we probably have a match here. I had to scratchbuild most of it and throw away the rest. keep us posted :-) Jim

Not sure, Jim, but I think it's a different kit (Ia, as opposed to I/II). I got the 411 from Arie Donker, who did this excellent build.

The Eduard Mk.V interior upgrade took care of any problems with the cockpit, though I also used the Barracuda resin seat with leather backpad to replace the oversize seat that comes with the kit or the Eduard set.