Fanes Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 Yesterday's wheater was too good for model building, so I did some road cycling. With some new motivation I hit the engine nacelle again. I spare you the pictures of scraping, sanding, filling and so on. I wasn't even finished when I took the pictures. A quite prominent feature of the 110 is the engine instrument panel. There's two on the inner side of each cowling. Dragon supplies the clear parts surpringsly labelled in a correct way. But there's always a downside - the dials itself aren't supplied. I used individual dials from MDC, apllied from the inside. Of course the printed side isn't that sticky, so I secured them with some gloss coat. With the cowling in place I did two important dry fits: 1st prop and spinner 2nd Quickboost exhausts. The former was a bit tricky since there was a huge gap (1.5mm) between spinner and cowling. After some surgery on the Dragon engine everything is fine now. The Quickboost exhausts are surprisingly a joy to deal with. They look nice and fit the kit parts! Before sttling on glueing the wing halves, I drilled the holes for the drop tanks. Dragon supplies all small parts for the tanks but not the tanks itself This quite horribly colourized picture of W.Nr 3454 shows the typical 300l drop tank. (Source asisbiz.com - not mine, for discussion only) I went through my stash and found four drop tanks: The upper left is from Revell's Fw 190F-8 (two included) and features in my opinion nice weld seams and okayish detail, but a blunt end. Hasegawa's Bf 109F-4/Trop (right) has a drop tank as well, there are only panel lines, but crisp detail. The Eduard offering (Bf 109E-7), well I don't find anything nice to say.. What's your opinion - which drop tanks should I use? Erwin, Out2gtcha, BloorwestSiR and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Nice work! Those dials looks great! Håkan Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Ahhhh Joachim, if only you had said about the drop tanks I could have sent you some spares that I have from other Dragon kits along with those twiddly handles! Still yours if you want them, but I'm away in Turkey from tomorrow till 5 March so bit of a long wait I'm afraid. You may remember from the G4 builds that Andy and I did that we said the engines nacelles are the trickiest part, and that included the modified G4 upper nacelle in resin. Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 (edited) 20 minutes ago, mozart said: Ahhhh Joachim, if only you had said about the drop tanks I could have sent you some spares that I have from other Dragon kits along with those twiddly handles! Still yours if you want them, but I'm away in Turkey from tomorrow till 5 March so bit of a long wait I'm afraid. You may remember from the G4 builds that Andy and I did that we said the engines nacelles are the trickiest part, and that included the modified G4 upper nacelle in resin. I wasn't thinking about the drop tanks and today it was: stupid me, could have asked earlier! If I find nothing until then, you'll get a PM. I use the (by the way excellent) G4 builds as a reference quite often, but I thought the nacelles were tricky because of the resin parts. But now I know better Edited February 17, 2019 by Fanes monthebiff and mozart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Brilliant work and as Max and I can attest to is that the Dragon nacelles are very difficult, build from the bottom up always!! Regards. Andy Fanes and mozart 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 2 hours ago, Fanes said: I wasn't thinking about the drop tanks and today it was: stupid me, could have asked earlier! If I find nothing until then, you'll get a PM. I use the (by the way excellent) G4 builds as a reference quite often, but I thought the nacelles were tricky because of the resin parts. But now I know better That's fine Joachim, just let me know if you need them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 Joachim, nice work so far. The nacelle instruments are there, just not mentioned in the instructions. They're part G16. They attach to the inner engine cradle so you have to drill a hole in it from the inside. The nacelles are definitely a fiddly but of work that's for sure. Carl Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted February 17, 2019 Author Share Posted February 17, 2019 2 hours ago, monthebiff said: Brilliant work and as Max and I can attest to is that the Dragon nacelles are very difficult, build from the bottom up always!! Regards. Andy I started with the lower cowl but couldn't get it to fit properly to the exhaus panel. In the second run I used some (a lot) force and CA to fix the warped lower cowl and fit is indeed a lot better on the other parts, too! 1 hour ago, BloorwestSiR said: Joachim, nice work so far. The nacelle instruments are there, just not mentioned in the instructions. They're part G16. They attach to the inner engine cradle so you have to drill a hole in it from the inside. The nacelles are definitely a fiddly but of work that's for sure. Carl Thanks Carl - now I found them. In comparison with the decal "solution" I think it's more work to align and paint these dials. Okay - I have to admit I really like the individual instrument decals Uncarina 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloorwestSiR Posted February 17, 2019 Share Posted February 17, 2019 I agree. I think the decals have a better chance of being visible than the kit panel. Carl Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 I spent the last weeks on my two Bf 109s and moved on withe landing gear and wheel wells today. There was an interesting discussion over Shawn's thread on the brake line with a good photo from Mike So out with the copper wire! I got the first line finished, took a photo and realised that I got it wrong. Photos of the fixed part will follow later. There's one other thing that I want to tackle in the wheel wells: The linkage of the door retracting mechanism. In the last group build there was some discussion regarding this thing. I'll try to do this with my trusted 0.2mm wire and some aluminium foil. For the springs the wire is coiled up and the eyes of the linkage are done by simply twisting the wire. I'm not ready for pictures yet, still trying to get the look and the dimensions right - stay tuned for more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted February 25, 2019 Author Share Posted February 25, 2019 Quick shot from the bench: Azgaron, Fvdm, MikeMaben and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 (edited) I could spend some time at the bench today and here's the result: The linkage is incredibly fiddly and I get now why you don't see it on most builds. It's by far not perfect but that's as good as it gets in one afternoon. Test fit on the wheel well (mounting points on the doors corrected and shortened wires) With some adjustments and cleaning up it may look okayish but this will need a lot of patience! Edited February 27, 2019 by Fanes Uncarina, florin13, Out2gtcha and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Excellent! That looks terrific. Yes, very fiddly, but seemingly worth it! Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Very nice work! Håkan Fanes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ray Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Nice work! Hmmm...wonder if I could get the Wifie to put her jewelry wire skills to the task... Fanes and Shawn M 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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