**** DONE: Matchbox 1/72 Bf110 VVS group build

[Crimea_River]

Haven't had time to check fully Lewis but I would expect a yellow theater band on the fuselage just behind the trailing edge of the wings and in front of the unit codes.

[magnu]

Cheers Andy Did a bit of digging and was able to find a few Wespen kites. From the codes mine looks like being from VI ZG 1 I only found one with the same codes which did have the theater band so I have given it two coats of future to protect the decals and will mask and spray that on tonight

[Crimea_River]

[Wayne Little]

I concur with Andy , have a number of shots showing the yellow band in the forward position....and a couple in the rear position too....

[magnu]

Did the band last night and added the long aerial on the underside one part made from stretched sprue the other from wire Lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth involved in that job with a few "Pings" just for good measure. Now have a better idea of how to go about it on the Airfix build tho. also added the D/F loop and one of the long range tanks will get the other on tonight along with the rest of the aerials and the mass balances. Will post pics when done.

[magnu]

Pics as promised






Not sure of a few things. Paint mass balances/pitot to match yellow outer wings ? Tone down white on canopy or do it all grey? Centres of spinners black or drilled out?
Let me know what you think

[Wurger]

[Crimea_River]

Hi Lewis. Looks nicely grunged up, mate- just like it should!

My thoughts on your questions. I doubt that anyone would have taken the time in the field to mask the mass balance so I'd go with the yellow at that location. Pitot tube - care would have been taken to not get paint into the tube so some covering of the instrument end would likely have been done but I would not extend the yellow out the length of the tube. I'd leave it the base green/gray or have the white wash on it. The instrument end would be a natural metal finish. I might have left the canopy frames in RLM 74 or 75 as the white wash was field applied and generally not applied to the frames - at least in most pics I've seen. The center of the spinners on the 110 C/D/E were open, exposing the prop shaft so if you want to be accurate, you should drill them out - see pic below.

[Vic Balshaw]

Lewis you have done a fantastic job, it really looks the part and a couple of good tips for us all from Andy.

[Airframes]

Nice work Lewis.

[magnu]

Thanks guys
Andy I was thinking along those lines but wanted to confirm my opinion Thanks for the input
One more thing I wanted to confirm was the upper distemper finish matt ? Oh boy a fun time doing a half matt, half satin final coat.

[Wayne Little]

done Good Lewis!

[Crimea_River]

I think flat would be conducive to the overall grungy look.

[T Bolt]

Very nice job Lewis! I would defiantly go with all flat. I think even a slightly gloss look in that scale takes away from the realistic look of a model regardless whether the real thing was gloss, satin, of flat.

[Wurger]

With all here.