Eduard Messerschmitt Bf110G-4 1:48 Profipack

[qeialto]

Hi all,
My second WIP thread, hope you'll enjoy it.
This box is the birthday present from my Mother in law, I need to be careful here....



It is a box full of very nice staff, lots of PE, maskings and so on. Got to love it, hope it will go well together.

At this stage I'm already assembling the cockpit, so I decided to take pictures from the web to show the inside of the box.























The decals are coming with swastika as well, in the picture below has been cut away



In the next days I'll post the ongoing work.
As always comments, suggestions and feedbacks are always welcome.
Cheers,
Antonio

[Avgas]

[Homerlovesbeer]

Ooo nice

[qeialto]

Hi Mates,
Some progress...

I assembled the cockpit seat, FULL of details and PE stuff, really nice.





Background colour is Vallejo Air RLM02, I did some light dry brush with light silver and used one of the panel liners I purchased last week:



After that I started to work on the gunner area, this one too full of details and PE. I must say that I loved the seat with all the details, this picture is before applying the seat belts:



I also tried the black painting panel liner I purchased last week, I'm not impressed with the results, I need to understand if it's me that I'm not good at it or what... it appears to be basically a dirty white painting, not really the fluidity you would expect from a panel liner:



Below is the completed cockpit as just glued together:





So far so good, lots of details and fitting quite nicely.
Until next, as always, comments and feedbacks are very welcome.
Cheers,
Antonio

[Howard]

Looking forward to seeing this.

The only thing I can think of regarding the panel liner was they don't always follow capillary action if the surface isn't glossed up first.

Hope that makes sense
regards
Howard

[Svenne009]

Awesome plane and even better - the nightfighter version.

Build is getting along nicely, will keep an eye on it

[qeialto]

Looking forward to seeing this.

The only thing I can think of regarding the panel liner was they don't always follow capillary action if the surface isn't glossed up first.

Hope that makes sense
regards
Howard

Thanks, that actually makes a lot of sense. Though the fluidity of this panel liner is a bit different when compared to the others.

[qeialto]

Hi all,
Some update, I progressed a while with small details and bigger steps.

First fitting issue, don't know if it's me or the kit (probably me) but managed to improve a bit the situation:
Here is immediately after glueing...





Here some improvements after pushing A LOT to fit:





Machine guns in place:





Above is also showing some results after lot with filler and sanding to get a decent situation.



Last picture for tonight is the beginning of the wing adventure... wish me luck...

[Homerlovesbeer]

I don't think it's you regarding the fit as I've read in a few threads that the fit of this kit is pretty average.

[Howard]

Agreed, the fit isn't the best in the world in some areas for sure!

Hopefully you'll beat it into shape!
Although I've not used that type of panel liner I do find some of the AK stuff needs a REALLY vigorous shake and mix before it flows really nicely. I also find I have to give them a shake after every few minutes too just to keep the colour density up!

Howard

[Smiffy]

Great looking build so far, really like the detail in the cockpit. Scary fit on the nose, good work making it fit properly.

[Stokesy44]

Looks really good, great work on sorting the nose out. I would have been in the corner sobbing if I had to deal with a join that bad. Super skills.

Loved the jazz music gun set up in the cockpit too. Not seen that modelled before. Fearsome weapon when used properly.

[demarcation]

Nice work mate!

[qeialto]

Thanks all for the tips and comments, really appreciated.

The build is progressing, lots of details as I'm trying to work them to the best of my capabilities. This kit is very nice from a detailing perspective, unfortunately not the best I've met in terms of fitting. But still fun and challenging...

Now it's wing time, assembling the engine and the gear pit, again, lots of details that are a pleasure to weather, including the PE stuff...







After that I spent some time to assemble the engine exhausts, paint them with Vallejo Metallic colour and weather them with Ultimate Rust wash. A bit of tone over tone perhaps but the effect looks nice. I'll finish the engine weathering (stains and leakages) once connected to the main engine part as I'll do them all together.



As a side note, I start to have big problems to spray the Vallejo metallic paints, I need to understand what's wrong....

I then connected the wings to the main body, it's quite a big bird for being a WW2 airplane, not far from an F14 size, pretty decent...







Until next, comments and tips always welcome.
Cheers,
Antonio