Messerschmitt Bf-109 ½ x2

[Tophe]

Thanks Dumaniac to confirm I am not the only one in the World working on this twin-engined 109 subject...
Well, the nose of the Unicraft kit, like the enclosed 3-view drawing, makes it look like a 3-engined plane...

[Tophe]

Well, the nose of the Unicraft kit, like the enclosed 3-view drawing, makes it look like a 3-engined plane...

I will probably keep the initial project but I have considered this 3-engined basis also:

The propeller blades are moulded separately and I have 2 kits x 3 plades per engine x 2 engines = 12 blades, that could make a 2 blades per engine x 6 engines...

[Tophe]

The nose engine hypothesis has disappeared into putty this morning...

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I have tried to fix the scale puzzle:
the single-fin fuselage is 21.3cm long and the twin-fin is 19.4cm long
That would mean Bf-109 1/42 or Bf-110 1/62
1/48 Bf-109 would have been 18.6cm long and 1/48 Bf-110 : 25.0cm

I am still puzzled. (Pleasantly )

[Tophe]

I have read the instruction sheet: "enlarged and twin-engined Bf-109 which offered a twin-tail design as an alternative".
The drawing as figures: 12.36m for the twin-tail fuselage, which means the scale is 1/64

[PR19_Kit]

Remember this is WhiffWorld Tophe, the scale is what YOU say it is......

[Tophe]

Of course, Kit, of course... I was just trying to understand before butcherizing...
The big size is confirmed by the canopy on the 3-view drawing at http://www.unicraft.biz/germ/me110m/me110m.htm :
(picture published with the authorisation of Igor)

This is different from the box art which featured a standard Bf-109 canopy.
From all that, I am going to invent my own.

[Tophe]

Corrected drawing with the Real right canopy:


And playing with the scale:

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With better text explanation, sorry:

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As usual, since my XP-77Z failure, I will not use the thermoformed canopy but fill the cockpit with puty and paint in black the canopy, whatever scale it will be...

[dumaniac]

Good luck with that one

[Tophe]

Thanks dumaniac!
Well, sanding has started, at my very low speed...

[dumaniac]

Don't worry about your slow spped - I am still studying and it has seriously got in the way of witif's

Every time I am doing a cut-and=shut, and I rush into it - I stuff it up.

Have patience and go slow.

I look forward to seeing this one completed

Dumaniac

[Tophe]

Thanks for the psychological support, dumaniac!

Well, PSR is puty sanding REPEAT, right?

[Tophe]

Well, as the fuselages are almost finished, let us go on.
1: basic project of mine
2: with the new cockpits of mine (I don't want to build a 1945 Nazi warbird, nor a 1936 Nazi future-warbird, but a 2014 Civilian tourism-plane)
3: using all tail parts available, decreasing span to fit my shelves
4: new project of mine