After almost 2 months, she is finally up on her feet


The canopy masks finally arrived. I still have to paint the greenhouse aka canopy, attach the drop tanks + WGr 21s and the props. I have a busy week ahead but i am trying to finish it by the next weekend.

Beautiful Uhu, Anthony. It looks great. That camouflage came out excellent!

Raj, nice progress on your 110. Looking forward to see more.

I have been promoted at work and are relocating to the US. This is of course fantastic, but it means I have to work on some smaller projects as I will be living in hotel rooms for some time. Therefore I have decide to postpone my Eduard 1/48 Bf 110 to another time and instead go for a Matchbox 1/72 Bf 110C/D. I will be building it very old school without any airbrush painting, strictly what brush painting can be done in a hotel room

I will use the kit decals, but have not decide on what version yet.

More to follow

@Raj
Your Zerstörer looks stunning, mate! Congrats on that! Hope my 110 will look a bit that good ....

@Jesper
Good luck for you over there in the "New World" and with your old Matchbox kit.

I made some progress on my Me 410 as I've promised. It's completed now and Future is on. Now comes the best part of building kits, the decals. I hope to finish by next weekend ,,,,, Pics follow then.


The Bf 110 will still need some time but I hope I finish it by the end of this campaign .....

Happy modelling!
Torsten

I am getting there, construction almost complete, barely. I must say the instructions for the Dragon Bf110D are not very clear when it comes to part numbers. Alot of trial and error, and some careful dissections and re-gluing, and some putty in spots. But I am ready for primer.

Hi everyone,

Just to share a few pics of my ongoing Bf.110 G-2/R1
model
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the end business of this version, a BK 3,7mm Kanon, the gun being from Master with some Milliput (yet to be retouched) acting as the gun sleeve

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In my next post hoping to have all cockpit subassembly finished before glueing
the fuselage halves.

Hope you all enjoyed, comments are welcome!
Best
Pedro

Thanks for the kind words, Torsten. Looking forward to see the Me 410 with decals on.

I actually started the Matchbox Bf 110 yesterday and it goes together very well. Of course with very limited detail, but that was expected. I think it will still turn out as a decent model.

Kevin, the Dragon Bf 110 is coming along nicely. I just bought that kit myself and it looks great. Mine even comes with two complete engines(!) Very nice. I will continue to follow you build with interest.

Nice progress on the cockpit, Pedro.

Jesper - be careful with the instructions, my plan was to mount and show off one engine, and when I got to that part, realized I had the two firewalls wrong, but I followed the instructions. The engine would not fit properly, unfortunately. There was also an issue with mounting the tanks. I am thinking about just leaving them off. I like the kit, but am very disappointed in the instructions, unclear is some areas, and wrong part numbers in others, especially hard when parts look alike. The molding is very nice and the fit seems ok. Priming and painting are next, will update when I get through it.

It seems there is a lot of progress in this campaign. I especiali like the 110s from Dragon, they look like preaty good kits.

@ Jesper: I have built Matchbox s 110 some 20 years ago and I still have it somewhere. Its a nice little kit. I have some new decals for it in the stash and Your choise brought me to the idea to make a re-make of this oldtimer. Looking forward to see Yours finished.

In the meentime I made a lot of progress. The Dornier is ready for paint. The fit of engines and canopy was a nightmare. It was back to the basics with geometry and a lot of putty. I must stop buying these awefull kits.

Alright I was finally able to get some work done on my toryu...

Applied a base coat of Gunze gray-green...



and applied the camouflage by brush painting...





Overall I am quite pleased with the results... can't wait to finish this bird!

p.s. and yes Torsten i opt for the closed canopy lol

@ Lawlzw: The hand painted camo is great, and the "flakes" arent the same, which adds to the reality of it. You have huge skills with the brush.

@ lawlzw - Very impressive, looks great, the camoflauge must have taken some time. Can't wait to see the finished model.

Hi all,

Howdo I add pics to the gallery??

Hi Anthony. Click on the link to get to the gallery, then you will need to make sure that you are logged in again (top right corner). Once you are logged in click the "upload photos" link (top right corner again) and this will let you select the pics from your PC that you want to load.

Hope this helps.

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Well, my 1/32 Dragon BF110C has ground to a halt. I have already finished building the cockpit and installing the Bf110C Interior Set from Eduard. I then started the seatbelts and was going fine until I realised that there was not enough of one of the pieces to complete the three belts.

I have email Eduard about the problem but have not received a reply as yet.

More news as it comes to hand..

Warren, I had a similar issue with my Eduard 1/48 Bf 110D kit. One of the aerolons(or however you spell them, the things in the wing that move so that the aircraft can bank right/left) were missing although the packaging was intact.

I contacted Eduard and they responded (very politely) within a few days. Then they sent me the entire sprue for the missing part. I'm sure if it's a mistake on their part, they will take care of the situation, but it might take them some time to respond. In my case it was four days.

Thanks Emre..

But one wonders about how a company like Eduard could design a sheet of PE without the correct number of parts for the kit, 5 instead of 8???

@ Warenni: Doesnt make sense to me. But wasnt there something like the middle seat wasnt used later in the war ? I hope You will solve this and show us a nice huge Zerstorer

As for my Dornier, the camo is on. I went for the Do- 217J-2 GE+EA from an experimental unit. There are like 3 or 4 pictures of this plane, and most people think its all black. Well I do interpret the pictures a bit diferent. Since there are some lighter "flakes" on the upper side of engines, wings and fuselage, I think the plane had grey or green spots on the upper parts. This would be the same problem as with the german armour Panzer Grau / brown controversy from Fall Weiss. In the end I decided to go for it and make green camo on the upper surfaces. The colours used are Valejo Air, which is a new thing for me, since i mostly use Tamiya colours. Valejo colours are Ok when You dont need to paint free hand complicated camo like I did, since they tend to dry fast on the tip of the airbrush with small diameters >0.2mm.

Well, this is an unusual luftwaffe night camo scheme!
Very attractive, as are all experimental camouflages.
By the way Naseby, I encourage you to get "handy" with vallejo paints, even in fine spraying. You're quite right to say they tend to dry fast, thus clothing the tip of the airbrush, but try to dilute with tap water in 1-6 ratio(or even 8 ) in darker shades with low air pressure, and proper fine lines will flow evenly. I'm sure you will be pleased with the results.
Keep this Dornier build posted, can't wait to see the end stuff

Hi Naseby.

Your Dornier is looking great so far!

You may be correct about the middle seat, but even without the belts there there still aren't enough for belts for the two other seats...

Cheers
Warren

@Lawrence
Awesome painting you did on your dragon killer! I'm really impressed by your skills with the good old brush! But why is there no camo on the canopy?

@Naseby
You have also done some fine and unusual camo on your Do 217! I remember your problems with the kit when I built my ship sinker earlier this year, also a Do 217 but in 1/48.

@Warren
As far as I remeber the 3. seat in a Me 110 was only used in the G-4 nightfighter for the navigator. Someone had to look at the radar monitors ....

My Me 410 is 99% finished. Today I painted the final satin coating on it. It has to dry now for 2-3 days before I can paint the last few things like guns and position lights. Last thing will be removing the canopy mask. Pics follow soon .....

Happy modelling!
Torsten

What she looks like right now. Still need to do a bit of touching up and add the aerials. Hopefully should be ready in a day or two

Awesome to see the Matchbox 110 alive again. I did two of them (badly) as a kid. Fond memories of that kit.

@ lawlzw, that is a great camo scheme you did there.

Still no word from Eduard... I am thinking of just using the kit belts for this one and save these belts for the inevitable Bf-110G when it is released.

@Torsten: my bad! I thought the canopy frame was without camo lol... went back and did some touch up on that... will post pics again when I have some more progress!

Well I have made a decision and will leave the belts off the centre seat, and to diguise the lack of buckles for the shoulder harness I will shorten it enough so you wouldn't have been able to see the buckles anyway.

So the zerstorer is go again. Progress pics later.