Bob, I'm really sorry to hear that and I hope you can come back to our hobby sooner than later. I know what you mean, I also had to make a full stop to building model kits in the month of May because of family affairs and preparing the model show of my club, which took place in Mannheim last weekend. That always grabs a lot of time ....
Anyway, now that the expo is over I finally got back to the Hs 129 and did a bit of surgery for that MK 103 Cannon. Here is Sprue J with the original plastik parts ....
.... and this is the brass made Mk 103 from Modellbau Schatton in my hand. Size is compared with a 1 Euro Cent coin. For all Non-Euro folks, the coin has a diameter of 17 mm ...
.... I used a saw to shorten the gun and drilled a small hole in the middle ....
.... this is how the gun should look like later ....
.... this is how the rest of the plastic sits inside the gondola ....
.... and some test fitting. Most of the plastic will not be seen in the end ....
.... I also did some work on the aircraft itself. Engine nacelles are done and covered with kitchen paper, exhausts are on and the canopy is masked with Eduard EX043 ....
.... after some white primer yesterday, this morning I sprayed the yellow Eastern Front markings with Revell No. 310 ....
.... in the next days I'll mask the markings. Next step then will be primer on the rest of the aircraft and spraying RLM 65, for which I'll use Revell No. 49. So stay tuned!
Torsten
