Next installation of the BK5. Instructions say to mount it on the floor panel, but when you leave the weapons bay open you have to find another way.
The original was hanging in the bomb cradle with some support beams. So I added some thin wire and drilled some holes in the in the top of the weapons bay, roughly in the places as the original and fixed the gun with superglue.
There are pictures in the net showing the installation from the original German manual
The decals are nice, but very sensitive to decal softener I had a little problem with the spinner spirals.
Last thing to install was the canopy hatches and antenna wires.The antenna is made of hair
and insulators are tiny small wirecoils
I m sure I will find some small things to fix or improve but otherwise it is finished
Overall it is was a nice build.
I would not regard it as for absolute beginners due to the difficulties to get the fuselage cockpit and canopy mated in the nosesection.
My personal pros and cons:
Pros:
-real nice moulding ( I now like the deeper panel lines, they get not so easy sanded away)
-very clear canopy
-cockpit
-weapons bay
-engines
-instructions (though I not like the sequence)
Cons:
-Fiddly cockpit installation in the nose
-Canopy installation more difficult due to separate top -panels
-Gear legs more simplified than in the older kit
-I do not like the shape and size of the props and spinners (
hello aftermarket
)
The Meng-kit is really good and I would buy it again. But I will not throw away my Promodeller for it is not bad either. Anybody a nice idea for a conversion into a special Me-410?
I really hope Meng will bring out a different version (Maybe a more colorful Hungarian Me-210 with a different wing and nacelles
)
Greetings from Shanghai
