Good to see such a nice kit of an early 109, and that Wingsy are still shipping despite the war. I look forward to seeing more from them! Thanks for the review!
Thanks Jason. I do like your builds, especially the voice over. You seem to have a knack of explaining all the important points without droning on for too long. Hmm, I promised myself not to buy any more kits this year until the Airfix Avro Anson comes out but that does look good.
Hi! Love your videos... and love me some 109's! I picked up each of Wingsy's 109 offerings, and indeed am very impressed... Re: your question about the top & bottom fuselage seams... the way I handle this with 109's that works really well... i just sand a very slight bevel in the mating surfaces along the aft fuselage, and then once you join the fuselage halves, you end up with a very nice looking seam. Just a few passes of a sanding stick will do... you have nothing to fill, and nothing to scribe. Just be sparing with the extra thin so you don't fill the seam with styrene goop.
Amazing kit there. I have the 1/48 Eduard BF-109 E7 Tropical Weekend Edition that I was about to start, but now after watching this build video of the new Wingsy, I feel I should toss mine into the waste basket. I need to locate one these instead.
Nicely done. Looks a good kit. I get that making the cockpit a separate sub-assembly makes it easier to build, but surely it makes the cockpit walls about a foot thick in scale thereby shrinking the rest of the cockpit.
That antenna cable looks crisp too - can you point to any tutorials on how to build it like that? Not just the wire being used but also the other parts like that coil attached to the post being created?
How do you mask the anti exhaust-stain stripe? Tape doesn't really want to stick, because of the exhaust pipes which push the tape up, so I can't get a clean seal.
Nice kit, but Tamiya's G-6 Me-109 comes with an engine too! Wingsy kits are a bit pricey at ¥ 7,000 . Eduard is too fidgety for me .... nice job on the kit !
Unfortunately there isn't much need for kits for beginners. I'm 59yrs old and my generation built things, most of the young ones today spend their time in front of a TV or computer, nor do they know or appreciate history. Doesn't bode well for the future I'm afraid.
It's a similar process to making printed circuit boards. A light sensitive etch resist is applied and selectively blocked in the pattern you need and then acid removes the metal where there isn't etch resist.
Not sure what the problem is with a obviously top notch kit. I'm a big fan of the Bf 109, and accurate, high quality kits are hard to come by. In contrast the P-51D is available in every imaginable scale, and quality from poor to great.
