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[Captain Canada]

Marking out where the gear will be. I used the kit legs, but cut off the bottom of the oleo and reattached it at a 90 degree, as they will retract that way.



Attached my rad to the Bf.55. I'm happy with the way this one turned out. You can also see where I glued the nose back on the D.520



Nosejob recommencing

[Captain Canada]

Glued a piece of card in so I could get the join cleaner without a lot of work



Opened up the gear as I want this one to be sat on the ground. As I said before I'm not going to paint the underside, going to leave the boy's artwork down there 



the gang at quitting time last night

[PR19_Kit]

I DO like that Me-109.5. It has a certain 'something' to it. 

[Captain Canada]

Thanks Kit ! Not sure where to go re: armament. Maybe a pair of guns in each wing ?

[PR19_Kit]

And a cannon firing through the airscrew. Plus you could always add some cowl guns like the 109-Gs had.

[Dizzyfugu]

I DO like that Me-109.5. It has a certain 'something' to it. 

It reminds me of the Latecoère 298 floatplane? 

[Captain Canada]

I kinda screwed up by not incorporating the cannons in the nose before I added the cowling. I guess I could have used a 109 engine but I wanted to use up the bits in this kit. Did they have cannons firing through the nose ? I guess I'll have to look into that. Maybe a pair of guns in each wing...I'm thinking a high altitude recon type maybe ?

[PR19_Kit]

Did they have cannons firing through the nose ?

Hell yes, almost all Me-109 versions had an engine mounted cannon AFAIK. That's the little tube thing on the centre of the spinner if you look closely.



Me 109E




Me 109F

[Captain Canada]

Nice ! The 110 prop spinners have holes, so perfect ! It's funny tho, I was reading the instructions for the Airfix 109 and they make no mention og the cannon !

[RAFF-35]

Loving the midge, if that's what you've decided it to be called  although, they're all looking very good, this GB is going to be very tough 

[Captain Canada]

Thanks ! ya I started out with pretty much a 'paint kit different' attitude so I'm glad these came along !

[ChernayaAkula]

Did they have cannons firing through the nose ?

Hell yes, almost all Me-109 versions had an engine mounted cannon AFAIK. That's the little tube thing on the centre of the spinner if you look closely.
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I thought the same, until I was told recently that only from the F onward did the 109 have working engine mounted cannons. They'd been tried with the B and C, but were plagued by thermal and vibration problems, leading to the removal of most engine-mounted machine guns and cannons. The D and E never had them (a projected sub-variant of the Emil was supposed to get them, but these were never built).

[zenrat]

The hole in the spinner of the early 109s was for cooling.  Of what I can't remember.

For the Battle 110 single, how about a 4 gun turret?

[Captain Canada]

Thanks for the tips regarding the cannon. I guess it wouldn't matter if they had them or not, as this one isn't a 109 and it's whif !

And I like that 4-gun turret idea, but I was thinking of doing that on a 109 to be more like the size of a defiant.

[NARSES2]

I DO like that Me-109.5. It has a certain 'something' to it. 

It reminds me of the Latecoère 298 floatplane? 

There was something I couldn't think of and that's it 

As for an engine mounted gun I thought the E-3 had one ? Now the fact it was removed from the -4 could indicate that it didn't work properly but I've not read that anywhere. Mind you I've not got any books dedicated to the type, so something to bear in mind