I decided to do a 1/24 scale to get some practice in for the sig next year so I chose the 109 it's a fairly easy kit but with some nice touches well so I thought when I read the instructions!
Let's start with the instructions, they start with the usuall cockpit and then engine and you follow this but there's a big problem, they instruct you to build the whole engine and cockpit with you thinking you can build this kit and have the engine showing or covered but you find out you can only do this once you get to putting the panels on you find that you can't build the engine if you want the covers on
In fact if you want the covers on you can only put two pieces of the engine in and that's the front of the engine for the propeller and the top for the machine guns the rest you will have to discard so you can get the panels on.
The other thing that would have been nice if you could do it is the retractable undercarriage, they come with pins at the top of the undercarriage that you just push in but they just break off so you end up glueing them anyway.
I will get another two of these kits though and build one with the engine showing and one covered because it is a nice kit and if the instructions were better explained you could do a very good model
Here's the completed build please feel free to comment/critisise
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Let's start with the instructions, they start with the usuall cockpit and then engine and you follow this but there's a big problem, they instruct you to build the whole engine and cockpit with you thinking you can build this kit and have the engine showing or covered but you find out you can only do this once you get to putting the panels on you find that you can't build the engine if you want the covers on
In fact if you want the covers on you can only put two pieces of the engine in and that's the front of the engine for the propeller and the top for the machine guns the rest you will have to discard so you can get the panels on.
The other thing that would have been nice if you could do it is the retractable undercarriage, they come with pins at the top of the undercarriage that you just push in but they just break off so you end up glueing them anyway.
I will get another two of these kits though and build one with the engine showing and one covered because it is a nice kit and if the instructions were better explained you could do a very good model
Here's the completed build please feel free to comment/critisise
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[ATTACH]91031.IPB[/ATTACH]
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