1/32 P.1101 at Oberammergau / Build review

[crazypoet]

7 hours ago, JeroenPeters said:

A bit on the fence about the wheels. I’ve read the wheels came of a Bf109K. The wheel hubs of the kit match these, but the radius of the tyres is bigger than some resin wheels i have for the 109K. What to do…

Different tires on the same hub?  That’s the only thing that would make sense to me

[JeroenPeters]

Spent the evening cleaning up parts. Decided to swap the rudder pedals for 3d printed ones from Eduard. Sawed off the kit pedals from the bar and simply glued the new ones on. 
 

[JeroenPeters]

So. I stopped by the Aviation Megastore today to get a Me262 cockpit set and some HGW seatbelts. The Ta152 blue-ish ones appealed to me. I cut off and sanded off all the instrument details and am using as much PE as i can. 
I contacted Quinta studio to check whether they’d release a set, but a blunt: check our FB page for news… was all i got. Seemed logical they would release a set, since they also released a 1/48 set for this plane. Ah well.

Already added the blind flying panel and did my best to match the Eduard RLM66.

 

[Count0]

I love HGW seatbelts but the fact that they are only printed on one side really bothers me. But they are kinda the only game in town.

Photo etch belts really don't make the grade, IMO, beyond 1/48 scale. And even then they need some finessing.

[JeroenPeters]

Cutting up the me262 Photoetch panel to fit the P.1101 panel. The fuse rack is similar to the 262’s so the placards fit. Not much will be visible after installing the cockpit combing. Another thing: i don’t think this pit should have a gunsight, seatbelts and would maybe be missing a lot of equipment since it was never meant to fly. But i’ll forget that thought. I won’t add a gunsight though…

 

[Martinnfb]

Nicey!

[JeroenPeters]

I stand corrected. The tires correctly state 740mm which corresponds to an outer diameter of 74cm. Converted to 32nd scale that translates to 23,13mm. I measured about 23mm. I also sanded and polished the wheels a bit, so that checks out

The story that this mockup used Bf109K wheels is therefor not correct. Maybe the wheel hubs, but not the tires.

[JeroenPeters]

Decided to add the oxygen hose again. Made it from thin lead wire and an Anyz coupling. Having a kot of fun adding all the Eduard PE from the Me262 set.