Great little tip there Erik @airbum, I will clip this and save for the future. Looking forward to the rest of this build!

Oh no – my 109 had a puncture

And it aint even out of the hangar yet!

Oh well – I decided to try to make some “weight-on-wheels” tyres for my 109 fleet, and as there are so many extras in the box, I have plenty to experiment with. And so, it is not even certain that any will be used in this build, but nevertheless – lets go;

In order to make the tyres bulge, I set up a candle and found a dull blade. The blade was duly heated over the candle, and with the tyre still on the sprue it was a matter of hitting the right temperature and pressure.

Now, it was found that it would be a good plan to add a rim!

Now, how do I know – lets change focus to the tyre on the table;

That about says it all?

A bit heavy on the heat and pressure?

And so, with a little experimenting it all turned out to be more or less a success. In typical “iron-werk” fashion (here in the future referred to as HalfWorks – explained elsewhere) I then prepared a few sets of rims and tyres and went to the airbrushing.

Well – up till now it hasn’t been a lot of two-seater, so just one last picture to show that a bit of progress has been made;

The interior has been glued to the left wall, the right only employed for support and alignment purposes.

With the HalfWorks chaotic assemblyline in full swing, one never knows what is up next – stay tuned on this and my other 109 builds to find out!

109 tires are more difficult than the average tire because the landing gear sits at an angle. I think your "experimental" tires came out great.

Instruments gets glass and exhausts are secured

With the assembly of the fuselage nearing, exhausts gets secured and work commences on the instrument panel

My Swiss 109 G-6 lost its exhausts, and though they were recovered from within the fuselage it proved very difficult to fish them out and get them back in the right location from the inside of the assembled plane!

To save me from a lot of sweat and so forth, I plastered the exhausts on the G-12 with Revell Contacta and glued a piece of evergreen on the back of the entire assembly.

Hopefully that will keep it in place!

And on to the instruments – the rear had been made from some leftovers, and the front one will be eduard standard photo-etch.

I have mentioned in a previous build that the small red handle might be better off being located BEFORE assembling the panel

And so I did just that – worked like a charm (had to be re-glued though after some sanding to remove a locating tap)

Now, you may have seen the next step in one of my previous builds, but here we go again. To depict glass, I use Tamiya gloss clear, brushed to the backside and left to dry.

You may have noticed that one of the dials are perfect, the others had too thick a layer, so be careful not to use more than is needed!

And that is that – next up – well who knows? Stay tuned, feel free to comment

@gblair - I think I got the tip off youtube. Clearly it needs to be on a photoetch panel to work, but then it is very realistic, even though the light has to be at an exact angle to be noticeable. It is however those little things that makes a difference I think. Another update will be here in a few minutes.

I have a clue...More Great Modeling! Looking good.

Navigating the nightskies

This time the Navigationlights are added

I have showed how I make wingtip lights before, and this is just a very short update for this particular build. As usual I have started with flattening a piece of clear sprue, drilling holes and painting them red and green.

After painting the individual pieces are cut down to make the rear fit the wing, then it gets superglued in place, tape is used to keep the wing free from scratches, and it is a matter of filing a rough shape, then sanding down to the final polishing stick.

And it takes some 15 minutes to make a fine light with a bit of practice – roughly the same as just painting and touching up the paint I guess, and the endresult looks a lot better.

This build is about to round the difficult part – the canopy. Anyone care to share some wac-form links or tips and tricks, please do so! Any and all info is appreciated