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I'm rediscovering the magic of model making, something that has not been a part of my life for nearly three decades!
I can remember the unbridled joy it used to give me as a young lad when, with pocket money in hand, I'd soon find myself of a Saturday morning eagerly scanning the rows and rows of boxes in my local model shop trying to decide which kit to take home with me for that week's enjoyment. Now I want to recapture that excitement and the pride of a kit well made.
If it's an X-Wing, why are they called S-Foils?
Such a small kit part - such a long video...
See that bit above the video...? 😉
Thought it about time to say hello in person and not with some white text on a white background... audio glitches an all!
To use internet parlance: OMG! It's finished! Many of you have been asking about this build, so here, at long last, it is. Hope it was worth the wait...!
Well, it went slightly differently in my head - and by differently, I mean better - but it is what it is and here it is!
PS: For all of you who have asked and waited patiently, part 2 of the Bf109E-4 will be arriving shortly! 🙂
Please excuse the multitude of white balance settings on this one - it's borderline multicoloured!
Where all future magic will (hopefuly) happen!
After a little teaser from the last video showing you how I vacformed the canopy for the little Stuka, here's the rest of the build.
Not a build video in the typical sense - that will be part 2 - but I just thought I'd show you all how I made my own canopy for this kit. Having built the cockpit from sctarch, the original one-piece canopy, being rather thick, would have [...]