Members Mikester Posted April 9, 2018 Members Share Posted April 9, 2018 Well sometimes you find yourself stumped and go off on a tangent, so here I go. I've been trying to repair some of the collection that was damaged in my move but several models were complete write-offs. This left me with a rather large collection of parts salvaged from the damaged 109 kits that in most cases I didn't want to use on a new kit but didn't want to toss either. So thinking to myself, "Mike, you've got a bunch of those 21st Century Toys 109s on the shelf, here's a great way to put those parts to use". So I set off with a fresh blade in the Tamiya hobby knife and a cold six pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade in the fridge. If you're familiar with the 1/32 21st CT 109s you know they're a little light on detail and a little clunky in some areas. For these builds I'm limiting myself to parts from spares bin or aftermarket parts from the stash that have been rendered obsolete that I probably wouldn't have used anyways. So these were marketed as Friedrichs but they're actually closer to Gustavs so I'm going to do them as G-2s. I'll be doing Hermann Graf's "Yellow 1" from 9./JG 52 and Hannes Trautloft's "<<-+-" from Stab/JG 54: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikester Posted April 9, 2018 Author Members Share Posted April 9, 2018 So first order of business is getting the fuselage sorted out. All extraneous panels have been filled in and missing details have been scribed. The solid fresh air scoops on the cowl have removed and will be replaced with resin parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikester Posted April 9, 2018 Author Members Share Posted April 9, 2018 Next is taking care of the wheel wells which are basically just gaping holes in the lower wing. I was able to salvage the nicely detailed strut bays from the trashed Revell kits and graft them in with the aid of some Tamiya Light Curing Putty. The upper portion of the wheel wells has been spruced up with some plastic stock. I'll fabricate the inner canvas liners from some lead foil later down the road. I've also cut off the landing and radiator flaps so they can posed deployed with replacement parts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikester Posted April 9, 2018 Author Members Share Posted April 9, 2018 I'm going to keep the cockpits relatively simple, just a couple of add ons before the RLM 66 goes on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumm Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 I have but one thing to say... " "IT'S ALIVE!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikester Posted April 10, 2018 Author Members Share Posted April 10, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators James H Posted April 10, 2018 Administrators Share Posted April 10, 2018 Always had a hankering to build a 109 with one of those tail squiggles. Sorry I can't be more precise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikester Posted April 11, 2018 Author Members Share Posted April 11, 2018 6 hours ago, James H said: Always had a hankering to build a 109 with one of those tail squiggles. Sorry I can't be more precise! Tail squiggles? Like so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingco57 Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Very nice and creative. Keep it up. Cees 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wumm Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Or this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted April 11, 2018 Administrators Share Posted April 11, 2018 Brave man!! Lovely work so far. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolboxx Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Loving this... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GusMac Posted April 11, 2018 Share Posted April 11, 2018 Some of those tail squiggles look like some of Slartibartfast's ideas for fjord designs! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mikester Posted April 19, 2018 Author Members Share Posted April 19, 2018 Got some work done on the cockpits, the detail is rather simplified so didn't go real overboard, some Airscale LW placards on the sidewalls was about it. The seatbelts are HGW and Eduard, can't finish fully installing them until the cockpits goes in and the fuselage halves are joined. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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