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Messerschmitt Bf 109 Werke

Started by Erik Gjørup · 305 ≡ · ↻ 10 months ago · 1/48, 109, 109 werke, airbum, Bf109, Haldværk, halfworks, Messerschmitt, quarterscale

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John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Interesting kit, nice work from Wingsy Kits to do this.
Looking forward to that kit, as well as to your conversion.
Spiros Pendedekas said 1 year, 7 months ago:

Looks like we live in the golden age of modeling, my friend @airbum!
Erik Gjørup said 1 year, 4 months ago:
@johnb, @holzhamer, @starfar, @fiveten, @gblair and @faraomike, the two E-3a’s are about to move to their own topics, just one final digging in on them both, as the matter in hand seem to concern both Swiss and Romanian planes.

20 mm in the wings

In this last post on my two Tamiya 109 E-3’s the matter of the wing-mounted guns are discussed.

Back in 1914, a patent was taken out on a machinegun by german Reinholt Becker. As Germany was forbidden to make weapons after the end of WW I, the work was taken to Switzerland. The weapon ended up being made by Oerlikon, and exported to a lot of nations.
The machineguns were also manufactured in Germany at the outbreak of WWII. The German version were operated by electro-pneumatic re-loading whereas the Swiss version had to be charged on the ground by means of a lever.

This difference (a bit basically described I know) meant that where the german MG FF had a faired spring along the barrel, the swiss just had the barrel protruding. What to do?
1. WHAT! - japanese guns in German wings?

2. ABER

3. Master-Modell
Well – the Oerlikons were also exported (manufactured) in Japan, and the MG actually happened to be on the Zero! So, you just buy a set of Japanese 20mm guns and install these. Job done!

And now the two 109E-3a’s will get their own topics to enjoy. Please feel free to follow them when they eventually re-appear on their own!
Pedro L. Rocha said 1 year, 4 months ago:

@airbum
You nailed the 20 mm MG gun, those jap brass seem equal to those seen on Swiss Emils alright.

Are you planning on doing the Wingsy edition also along with these?
John vd Biggelaar said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Great information, Erik @airbum
Looking forward to see them in seperate topics.
Spiros Pendedekas said 1 year, 4 months ago:

Superb info and great implementation, my friend @airbum!
Erik Gjørup said 1 year ago:
Thanks @holzhamer, @johnb and @fiveten. The 109 werke continues here:

Washed and ready to go

I recently washed a handful or two Emils

I think I ended up with 6 Tamiya (one being the FineMolds repack)
1. Tamiya inside - plus a lot of extras!

2. Still a good base kit

3. A lot more complicated
1. Just put in to let the glue cure
I started with assembling all the Tamiya cockpits.

Then it was on to the intakes
1. original

2. original

3. no good any more

4. "new" part to work on

5. to be used

6. can be used to make closed version.
As there are two, one normal and one trop, in each kit, it is easy to make a better (split) version of the normal intake. For the trop you need to have two kits if you want a closed version.

Testfitting the lot.
1. There's a hole in my plane
1. seperated

2. Could do with a new front as it is a bit basic. But that will be a load of work. Anybody got a printer?
As usual on these kits the shroud around the exhausts will be thinned and the airintake to cool the plugs opened.

Time will tell if there will be more reports on these. Most of them will return to the stash to await decisions on decals etc. Tune in later to check.
John vd Biggelaar said 1 year ago:

A lot of trimming, Erik @airbum
3D printing would be helpful indeed, unfortunately I don't own one yet.
Spiros Pendedekas said 1 year ago:

Great jobs, my friend @airbum!
George R Blair Jr said 1 year ago:

Wow, Erik (@airbum)! That is a lot of plastic to work through. Good luck getting the right parts on the right kit.
Erik Gjørup said 11 months, 1 week ago:
Another month gone by @johnb, @fiveten and @gblair.
John, indeed 3D could be the helping hand.
Thanx Spiros
George, not really a problem here as they all share the basics.
This weekend I have been adjusting the depth of the forward part of the wings.

Slats

Too deep!

I have always found the cut-outs for the open slats left a lot of room for improvement. In real life the edge where the slat is parked is no deeper than a sheet or two of alu. I decided to try and reduce these.
1. too deep - or is it too steep
1. strip installed

2. LqS added

3. sanded
A thinned strip of evergreen glued in place did the most of the trick. I now have to experiment on how best to get It right. I shall start with the “tape-and-paint” trick that worked so well on my Zero and Rufe.

Tune back in later to check how it worked out – may be posted in one of the airframe-specific topics I have in (slow) progress.
George R Blair Jr said 11 months, 1 week ago:

The plans you have for this kit still include lots of scratchbuilding and rebuilding, Erik (@airbum). Looking forward to your tape and paint adjustment here.
Spiros Pendedekas said 11 months, 1 week ago:

Great procedure, my friend @airbum!
John vd Biggelaar said 11 months, 1 week ago:

That's a nice improvement, Erik @airbum
Erik Gjørup said 10 months, 4 weeks ago:
Hole?

I may make holes in them all!

The Tamiya kits have a “hole” in the aft fuselage just like the real ones. The kit version is too large, and I have given the lot a LqS treatment, and need to sand them down and redrill a smaller hole.
1. using a smaller tube when cutting to length to keep the round profile intact.
The smallest drill I have is smaller than the plastic hole, but still too large, so for now I plan to insert a tube – just like the real plane have it. This is used to insert a rod for all kinds og groundhandling, and sometimes even a broomstick has been used to ease pushing the fighter around!

next up I make plans for a few of them.

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Work in Progress – Aircraft

Messerschmitt Bf 109 Werke

20 mm in the wings

Washed and ready to go

Slats

Hole?