Phil Smith

Thanks. Though the color is technically not incorrect, I agree with you. I would have preferred a grayer tone, but I’ve grown to be ok with it since the RLM 02 shade varied considerably during the war due to supply chain problems. There is much debate on the shade and even actual museum artifacts yield a wide variety of shades. I ended up using AK’s RLM 02 Grau (1941).

Excellent work!

Excellent reference for jet exhaust effects. Thanks for that. Great work!

Thanks all. Sorry for the delay - work and such has a knack for interfering with fun stuff. In the interim, I completed the cockpit and integrated it with the fuselage halves. The Zoukei Mura kit has a bunch of additional interior detail that, when the fuselage is buttoned up, one will be able to barely see through the radio compartment access door. I did a fair amount of detailing in there, but really much of it will not be visible. At least it was fun. With the fuselage put together, the empennage was installed and the engine glued to the front. The guns were also glued in (I would have preferred to get aftermarket brass guns, but I'm ok with the result). Mounting the engine in this kit requires great care, but the fit is excellent. With that done, I could then proceed to add wire harnesses and various flexible piping using different thicknesses of lead wire. This was a tedious process, and I only got about a third of the cabling done in a couple of hours. I'm happy with the result, but much more is needed before the engine can be considered completed.

Thank you, gentlemen!

A bit more progress on the Bf-109 during the past few weeks. I'm building three kits at once, which is fun but means that each is moving along at a glacial pace. The Bf-109 has moved a bit to include completion of the cockpit and I've no moved on to the fuselage. The Zoukei Mura kit includes a variety of interesting internal details for the aft fuselage, so I decided to go ahead and add these details, with wire harnesses and control system cables. A small percentage of this will be seen through the radio access panel, which will be open. So far, so good!

Looks spot on to me. Very well done.

Exceptional work. Very inspiring!

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Additional progress made on the engine and cockpit cage. The engine, which has been weathered, will receive more work in the form of adding wire harness details, but this needs to wait until it is linked to the cockpit assembly, which I see is a few steps away. The cockpit is more or less straight out of the box, though I clearly added HGW's excellent seatbelt set. I also added some photoetch items designed for a different kit, as I like the idea of adding more wire harness details which the Eduard photoetch set features (not terribly visible in the photo, unfortunately) The short version so far is 1) easy and fun assembly and 2) standard colors one might expect for this particular aircraft (RLM 66 and RLM 02). I

Excellent work.

Nicely done and interesting subject.

Excellent work!

Excellent work so far. Will be watching closely as this thing is on my to-do list!

Interesting - I look forward to this build!