Love your kit bashing modifications, my friend @airbum!
Yes, the forthcoming Eduard might make things much easier, but I love seeing all your great craftsmanship here!

This is interesting, Erik. A real skill building project. While lacking in details, the HC kit doesn’t look too bad in the shape and dimension departments compared to the Eduard 109. I built one of those HC Avias when they came out and was pleased with it.

Thank you gents.
@fiveten, hopefully I will get this one done before Eduard gets their S-199 out
@johnb, I usually start in the kindergarten when I have something I compare to other stuff, and also when I do not quite know what it is going to be in the end regarding markings and such.
@j-healy, The base kit is indeed not bad at all, and will build into a fully acceptable model – and if you add AM parts intended for the kit it is going to look great too.
@gblair, stay tuned. I have found it rather pleasing after a few resin conversions, and I could just have done some riveting and stuff on this one, but once the ball gets rolling. . . .
Another update here;

Too close, I think

Having had a fair share of armchair aviation, I find the intake is too close on the exhausts

I did address this in the kindergarten, but lets just re-visit. From pictures it is quite obvious there need to be just a fraction more space in this area

I cut a large chunk of eduard cowling from the sawn off part

Then just for the fun of it, laid it all out to check alignment and such

I am indeed having fun with this one, and off camera the wing is getting assembled – I also have to get started on the other half of the fuselage.

looks very nice! I suspect that with such a scope of work I would already go crazy 😉

@johnb, thank you, but in real life it is not too good. Will get it there though
@lis, I were crazy even before I started so no harm done
@fiveten, The fun-factor is high as you have discovered with your numerous mods on the PFP projects

Another update here;

Wings and another half

In order to get all the finetuning and dryfitting done I assembled the wing

Standard Eduard assembly – no surprises there

With the wing cured it was time to get a major fit check

now I will have to get some armchair-time to check the openings, but I am rather convinced they need to be covered and another ejector thing made. It is not in the kit, but perhaps the resinparts have them?

Some modifications to be done Erik. @airbum
In your hands it will turn out nicely.

@fiveten, @johnb and @lis finally I got around to this one again.

Nose.

One of the very obvious differences is of course the nose

I did not get around to filling yet, but at least I glued the bulges in place before my absence

I glued the nose to the left fuselage half

and before you tell me that eduard has plans to make the S-199 and a lot of other stuff, their newsletter mentioned no such thing for the first half of 2022 – who knows, I might even get this done before I can buy a complete new nice kit of it. . . . – but where is the fun in that?