Eduard 1/48 Bf109 E-1 Profipack

[dave]

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Work is well underway on the office, this was my first experience with PE and even with my reading glasses for magnification some of the bits were tiny.

I have a little bit of cleaning up to do on the back of the cockpit, I got a little bit of glue spilt on my thumb when I glued this in and unfortunately I left my mark.

[Guest]

Good start Dave, I've built the E-4 Weekend Edition which was a joy to make!

Cheers

Patrick

[monica]

nice start Dave,looking good with the cockpit,

[papa 695]

Looks like a very nice start Dave

[Guest]

Nice start Dave! And thanks to create a thread

[dave]

Time for a brief update, progress has slowed to a crawl because of a bout of pre-Christmas travel for work, but here is the engine nearly ready to go in to the fuselage. Apologies for the poor quality snapshot.

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[dave]

A bit more progress made over New Year, it is now starting to look like an aircraft.

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[Alan 45]

Good start I've got the weekend edition of this and it looks a cracker , I see this has got all the doo dabs like pe

Ps what's it like building in zero gravity

[dave]

Zero-G makes it easier to nudge in the small bits of PE.

My understanding is the weekend edition is the profipack without the PE, cockpit masks and fewer decal options.

I don't know if your going to do the engine open or closed. I'm doing closed and I am going to have to remove a few bits off the engine to make the cowling fit.

[Guest]

Cool detail! ;-)

[flyjoe180]

Nice work so far Dave, looks like a nice kit.

[dave]

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Here is the latest progress, I am now stalled for the rest of the weekend on the build as the camouflage scheme is an RLM02/RLM71 splinter and I forgot to buy any RLM71. So a trip to my local model store on the way home from work tomorrow.

In order to fit the cowling you need to take everything except the exhausts off the engine block and then file off the front top corners of the block.

[Alan 45]

Looking good dave and thanks for the heads up on the engine , why they can't tell you you can't fit the cowling with the complete engine is beyond me and further to this why can't they make the engine parts smaller so you can after all it's 'supposed' to be a 'scale ' model

[papa 695]

Nice work Dave

[dave]

Looking good dave and thanks for the heads up on the engine , why they can't tell you you can't fit the cowling with the complete engine is beyond me and further to this why can't they make the engine parts smaller so you can after all it's 'supposed' to be a 'scale ' model

I know its a bit of a pain. I suppose the argument is that the engine is correct in scale if you wish to build open, but due to the limitations of plastic the cowling is thicker than it should be for the scale which causes the problem. If your building closed all you really need is the bottom half of the engine block to attach the exhausts to and the aluminium bits at the front you will eventually mount the prop on.