Mikester

Sweet!

Funny that way, right? Yeah, the Aries stuff looks stunning but getting it to fit is another matter entirely!

OK, first up is the Revell kit. I've used the Aries cockpit for this. True to Aries some modification is needed even though it's designed for the Revell kit. The wing spar runs beneath the cockpit but there is no channel molded into the cockpit tub to accomodate this so you'll need to Dremel this out yourself. It's a little wide on the forward end too, but not real bad. Dressed up with some Airscale Luftwaffe placards and HGW seatbelts. Fuselage together, I've used the forward portion of a Hasegawa upper cowl to correct the gun trough spacing issue, now the fun part, lots of sanding, yay! And now the Hasegawa, I've used an older Aries resin cockpit here also spruced up with Airscale Luftwaffe placards and HGW seatbelts. Fuselage together and resin nose installed. Fit is pretty good, hopefully just a little sanding and blending to get it fared in.

Well I've been suffering from an extreme mojo drought the last several months. I really hadn't planned on doing any more 109s this year but couldn't really get motivated to do anything else so I took the advice of blues rocker Pat Travers and figured I'd "Go for what 'ya know"! So I thought it would be (mildly) interesting to do a comparison build between a Hasegawa and Revell Bf 109G-10 Erla kits. The Revell G-10 is pretty well documented and a fairly solid kit but I'll be throwing a fair amount of after-market at it to get it up to speed. I'll be doing Hartmann's aircraft depicted on the box cover using Anders' excellent profile as my paint reference: For the Hasegawa build I'll be using the OOP EagleParts conversion set mastered by Steve Gallaci. Shape wise more accurate than the Revell kit but grafting a resin nose on can be a pain sometimes and I suffered a major disaster trying this conversion with the old Cutting edge set so hopefully I'll get better results this time. This one will "Red 5" of 2./JG 300. A colorful aircraft that should look pretty cool when finished. I've already got some work done so look for an update soon!

Sweet!

Steve, That's kind of the way I was leaning myself, thanks!

In this photo it really looks like the they are small wing bulges, you can make out the kidney shape fairly clearly.

I've just started a couple more Erla G-10's. Looking at the sheet included with EagleCals decals it appears that Jerry C. thinks the trademark Erla serrated demarcation on the upper wings has been done away with by this point. The Barracuda sheet depicts a softer version of the serrated demarcation. Thoughts? Hoping you'll chime in here Anders!

Sweet! Really want to do this one 1/32!

Sweet! I need to pick up one of these soon.

Simply amazing!

A pleasure to be affiliated with such a great bunch of people, and Paul of course!

Well I'd actually have to build something to build British! I'll definitely pick it up, it will most likely languish in the stash for a good long while though.

Really nice work, Ralph!

Noice!

Took awhile for the Corsair to start showing in shops over here too, kind of strange but I'll wait for it to show up at Yodobashi, the price will be worth the wait.

Nice! really like the display base too!

Well that's quite a debut! Just outstanding all the way around!

Absolutely gorgeous, Ralph! Glad you were able to track that kit down!

Gorgeous!

Looking good, bro!

Just outstanding, Dan!

Like a boss!

Gorgeous build, Mike!