People – I have a confession…..

I have a few 109’s in the works. All the ones in progress are eduard kits. This topic will be about a 109F-4 that is quite a bit along the assembly line, but I will be starting it up from the beginning, and then at some point the postings will catch up with reality – hope you will forgive me for taking that approach. It has been posted on my ello.co profile ello.co/airbum – however you have to be logged in to follow it there, so to spare you creating an account there, here we go;

The cockpit had some detail added. The throttle was remade as eduard has cast it to the wall, and pushrods and the tailwheel lock mechanism had to be made too.

On the right wall the chartholder was thinned, wiring and boxes placed, and a handle fashioned from stretched sprue.

Looks good. I am looking forward to seeing a paint scheme that isn't normally used.

Great build, I will follow it!
You might find these photos useful. I built the V -07 recently in 1:72 scale, and found a few good photos of the Hungarian F-4s during my research. One of these is a rare original color photo of V -12.

2 attached images. Click to enlarge.

The office

It has been a while since my last posting. Sadly there has been far to few hours spent at the bench, but at least (as I said earlier) I have quite a backlog of pictures, and so this evening will be spent at the PC.
Now – here we have the assembled office

The small red handle was sacrified to the carpetmonster at an early stage, so I tried my hand on a new one of stretched sprue. Came out a bit too large I think!

The instrumentpanel is – apart from the handle – standard Eduard photoetch with the addition of Tamiya clear glasses

Speaking of glass – the by now usual navigation lights were fashioned from clear sprue, here we have the green/right/starboard one

next up will be assembled wing and some fuselage details

Thank you Louis - the font style and lettering is explained further on iModeler - it is down under tutorials at the bottom of the page. When you get it it is actually rather easy! For the headlines you just write heading in a "square" (alt gr+( and alt gr+) on my keypad) and after the larger text you do the same, only preceed "heading" with a "/". For italics just replace "heading" with "i". Have fun! (check the page on BBCode here on iModeler)

Windscreen and fuselage

109’s have a hole in the aft fuselage to put a broomstick or whatever into to add handling. The hole is actually a tube, and one has been fashioned here by a stretched handle from a swob

next up more detailing and guns – comments welcome

A broom handle hole? Who knew! I just received a Tamiya G-6 from a friend (1/72), and having not built a 109 in a 'coons age, I thought I might get to it soon. You're details are amazing - using you for inspiration (thought not near so much detail at my scale...).

The business end

a look at the cowlguns and some other details

The gun throughs were as usual sanded down to be a bit more flush with the cowling.

With the wings in place, ailerons came into play

And finally for this installment the rudder was glued into position too

next up more detailing and guns – comments welcome