I second Spiros opinion! Nice wood effect on the antenna. Oils?

A little more progress. I started to clear the model with Future. More importantly something I ordered a month ago just arrived. LMG makes jigs/fixtures for holding your model in place for building, decals and yes even painting.

I saw this on a post from somebody on Facebook and looked into it. I would recommend it. It is laser cut plywood, and goes together very well. what you see is put together without any glue, the fit is that good. It is adjustable for different size planes and high, low and mid wing mounts. For me it will also help in not breaking off antennas and such and beats the hell out of what I have been using for years.

This is used for holding Rebar off the ground when pouring cement.

Anyways Decals are next and looking forward to putting them on.

Thanks for sharing your positive experience, Walt.
It does look very handy and I do recognize the breaking of external parts.
Will have a look for this kind of fixutre myself.
Your 110 is making great progress as well.

Thanks, @fiveten, @johnb and @airbum, I knew I needed something better when I did the the B-17 and was having so many issues with the antennas on the Bf-110. I also know as big as this is, it won't be big enough for my next project, but it will hold sub-assemblies for me nicely. The next project will probably be one of the bigger projects I have built, and I have built the Monogram 1/48 B-29 a few times. The Wingspan I think is about 29 inches when put together.

Thanks George, @gblair, I have used my rebar holder, paint bottles, boxes, and other "fixtures" too. I finally decided to quit fighting it. I broke all the antenna's on the Bf-110, and just decided, I want to enjoy my hobby that much more by getting this fixture. There are others available, but this one will do for me.

This is my second Monogram/Pro-Modeler/Revell Bf-110. It really is overall a very good kit. Some runs had molding issues, this kit was one of them. I have another and I checked and the molding appears to be very good. Detail is good, fit is decent if you take your time. It really does build up to a pretty good looking kit when done.

Definitely a very good start, Walt @luftwaffe-birdman
Perfect placement of the decals.
Fully recognize the partner not being that interested in modelling, just occasionally.

Well I made a bit of progress this weekend. I started with wash, but didn't like the way it was going on, so I fell back to another method I have used. I used a Q-tip dabbed it in the tubes of oil paint, then rubbed it directly on to the aircraft, making sure to rub it into the panel lines and crevices. Then I would wipe it off with a paper towel an clean Q-tips. I actually do like this method in part because the oil paint actually does stain the clear a bit giving it a bit of a filter effect on panels, as well as highlighting the panel lines. I still have more weathering to do, but am off to this start.

6 attached images. Click to enlarge.