Global Scale Modeller

My next project.

I must say that I am quite excited about this one. First off, I haven't built a 1/32 scale plane in 30+ years. Second, this will be my first foray into after market stuff in about 25 years. Third, and most importantly, I am going "outside the box" on this one. Literally.

I am not going to be using the kit decals, or paint schemes. I have a little some thing special in store.

Construction has begun on the Revell Bf109 G-10.

I have been working on the first few steps which involves putting together and painting the cockpit and instrument panel. So far, so good. There are a few minor things that need attention and I will deal with those in the following photos.

The first thing to do is cut the parts off the sprues. One of the first items, are the rudder pedal. As you can see below the parts aren't molded all that great. Quite poorly in fact. But, with a samll bit of work they look fine after they are cleaned up. And I discovered they look quite good with paint. More detail than I first thought.



the floor of the cockpit is molded very nicely. Somewhere along the line one of the pegs that the rudder pedal attaches too, was broken off, so I had to get creative. Those extra Panzer IV spare road wheel brackets came in handy.



There are a few small, finely detailed parts that attach to the cockpit sidewalls, but all of those were perfect. After all of that was assembled, I turned to the instrument panel. First I painted it then brushed a fine layer of Future on it in preparation for the decals then gathered up everything I need.



Here is the result after a few coats of Solvaset.




So, there it is so far. If the kit continues on as is, it should be a fun, pleasant build.

Great looking panel.

Great start!!

Looking forward to this build got one of these lurking in the stash, looking good so far
Glenn

Great start. The instrument panel looks great.

Thanks guys.

I hadn't realized until today how long it's been since I posted any updates about this project.

For starters, I am not getting quite as much done as I would like due to a major remodeling project in my house, but I am getting some done.

So far, this kit is going together nicely. I have to say that aircraft model kits are a far cry from my former forays into model building. In the '80s, when I was building with some regularity, I avoided aircraft kits at all costs. I do NOT like filling and sanding and all of that, and it seemed that aircraft kits of yore were quite needy in this area. Not so anymore. Kit manufacturing has come a long way.

First up is an exhaust comparison photo. On the left is the kit part, and on the right is the Barracuda resin replacement. Not too much of a difference from this angle.


From this view you can see that the resin part is a little broader, especially at the curved, base section... a little truer to the real deal.


And here it is looking at the exhaust opening. The kit part is sold and needs to be hollowed out to look right, whereas the resin part is already hollow at the tips. Once painted and the inside of the exhaust blackened, it will look a bit more realistic.


Here is the exhaust installed. Also note in this photo the resin supercharger intake. The kit part isn't too bad and would be usable, but this one is molded in one piece, thereby eliminating a seam mark on the inside of the opening that would be a little more difficult to correct.


During this assembly step, I made a note (hopefully as a help to others) indicating the sequence in which to assemble the landing gear bay parts. I dry fitted the parts a few times and it seemed this way worked the best.


Here are the parts I am working with now. I primed the portions of these parts that I am going to paint prior to further assembly.


And, finally, here is a closer shot of the installed cockpit.

Looking good so far!!