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ME110CDifferent!As usual, I intended to use aftermarket decals for most of these aircraft. I had the following sheets: BoB & Norway 110C SuperScale 48-537 BoB 110C/E SuperScale 48-538 Nightfighters Tally Ho 48 006 (-C and -G Nightfighter) Bf-110C/G Superscale 48-025 (VERY old sheet) BoB FCM HB4801 (Not just 110s) Nachtjäger Nr 001 Owl W.Nr 001 (-E Nightfighter) One of the on SuperScale options had a nice desert style camo, though it claimed to be a BoB aircraft. I figured they must have done their research (always a leap of faith, frankly) so I went with it, though for interest I thought I would use the large 900 litre tanks. Now that might be totally wrong but then who's going to believe it's a BoB scheme anyway? The panel lines were preshaded with black and then the aircraft upper was painted RML79 Sandgelb (the top forward part of the large tanks was also painted RML79, again for a bit more interest) and the undersurface RML78 Hellblau (all paints were Xtracolor, BTW) before getting to the hard part, the mottle of RLM80 Grun on the upper surface. This was achieved using the Airwaves mottle masks, both 32nd and 48th scale being used. Easy to say, not so easy to do, especially round the curves. But it looked quite good, and MUCH easier than any other method I would have come up with. Then the nacelles, wingtip undersides and the rear fuselage band were all masked and painted white or yellow as appropriate. The decals were applied, as you would expect from SuperScale they were in register, strong, thin and went down well. The only problem was the yellow "D" code, it's a little thin and the green mottle shows through slightly. Not a problem for the one on the white band, obviously.
Then it was a coat of matt followed by a few light sprays of light grey and reddish black where the exhaust staining should be and then onto the little bits. Most were fine except the landing light which seemed overly large and took some trimming, certainly worth dry fitting first (I didn't the first time, learn from my mistakes). The aerials from the mast to the tail were done with my favourite thin wire, the gun barrels were the last thing I spent time on. The kit parts are just lengths of more or less circular section rod, the real thing had flash suppressors and the like. I made some from appropriately sized bits of rod, again I should have drilled them out but having made 20 gun barrels I couldn't be bothered. I think I'm getting lazy.
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