'Wie ein floh Aber oho' 1/32 Wunderwaffe. "FINISHED"

[Gadfly]

With the Bf-109 coming to a conclusion and the happy realisation that this GB rolls on for another 6 or so weeks.

I thought I'd give this a go...



Unsure on scheme at the moment but it won't be the all over red one...

More once the Bf-109 is finished...

[Gadfly]

I had a bit of a look at this yesterday and decided the kit seat was pretty hopeless.

So I have made a replacement out of some 'soda can' Aluminium.






That looks a bit better and with some seatbelts in place it should be ok.


Cheers
GF

[iggie]

Nice work!

[Kevan Bailey]

I know it's a 1/32, but how big is it, actually?

[Gadfly]

The seat of the aircraft?

The grid in the cutting mat are 5mm squares.

[ShaunW]

This is a great subject IMHO Gadfly and I would imagine the finished model will be quite a manageable size even in 1/32 as the real thing is not exactly huge. I see the dimensions are on the box in your photo but I can't quite make them out (I have the old Dragon '163 in 1/48th that is quite small and in 1/72nd the aircraft is positively tiny). I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work with this one.

[Kevan Bailey]

Yeah, like Shaun says, 'ow big is the plane? Some of these 163 models are a choke hazard.

[splash]

I'm all set to watch this masterpiece, I have pulled up my chair opened a can of beer and a packet of pop corn.

[Gadfly]

Right I'm back from my overseas jaunt.

I took the Komet with me and knocked out a bit of re-scribing while I was away. Business travel is pretty boring so the Komet was a pleasant distraction along with Netflix on the laptop.

Here are the main parts taped up for an indication of size.



And some close up of the re-scribing. Which is mostly a rivet job I suppose. I used a compass point an a chuck for the large rivets and a RB productions rivet tool for the smaller ones. The panels were scribed in using a set of Hasegawa templates.







So that's actually meant that the week has been reason t productive modelling wise.

I'll now dip back to finish the 109 before continuing with this.

Cheers
GF

[Gadfly]

So with the Bf-109 compete I've been chipping away at the Komet...

Here is the cockpit. I used my fabricated seat adding a cushion maxed from epoxy filler and some home made belts out of aluminium and fine wire. I painted the stitching in these which I quite like.

The IP I did following some advice from Wayne Hui. Wayne produces some great builds using older Monogram kits.. his technique with raised detail on IP's is to paint a base coat in white acrylic then the top color in enamel paint then use a cotton bud moistened in thinners to reveal the detail in a contrast colour. I did this and painted the dial surrounds with a fine brush.



The fuselage halves are now together I have built the wings and need to do the rear fuselage. Progress should be fairly quick now the pit is done.

Cheers
GF

[Kevan Bailey]

The IP I did following some advice from Wayne Hui. Wayne produces some great builds using older Monogram kits.. his technique with raised detail on IP's is to paint a base coat in white acrylic then the top color in enamel paint then use a cotton bud moistened in thinners to reveal the detail in a contrast colour. I did this and painted the dial surrounds with a fine brush.

Wish I'd read this two days ago.

[Gadfly]

So the main parts are together.





Cheers
GF

[iggie]

That cockpit looks excellent and is good to see the whole thing assembled now. Any more idea as to the choice of scheme yet?

[Gadfly]

Something with mottling and splinter on the wings...

[Gadfly]

Further work on the Komet.



The seams are sorted. I added some BMF and aziu tape on the spine to recreate the stepped panels covering the ammo boxes and refuelling points. I also bent up a small bracket to locate the armoured glass in the cockpit and added a fuel dump tube from fine brass tubing also adding some inspection ports to the wing using some punched out discs of BMF.

More later
Cheers
GF