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As I said the cockpit is poor but with all that framing and quite thick plastic you're not going to see too much (unless you open it up, so I decided not to :-). So I went more or less with the kit parts, even using the decals for the main instrument panel and side console for speed. But I felt I had to do something so the pilot's seat was replaced with a Bf-109 seat from True Details and the MG-15 was replaced with an Aries part. The cockpit (painted RML02, I figured it was quite early so that was more likely) was then installed into the fuselage halves and basically I just followed the build from the instructions with the exception of the nose. As the nightfighter was going to have the second Eduard set from my stash I thought I should do something for this one, so I dug out an Aires nose gun bay set (4104). I know it's intended for the G-2 kit but it's the same layout as the C and I figured I could squeeze it into the Fujimi kit. So I cut the kit nose part along the panel line, did some "adjustments" to the main resin part and the lower part of the nose and it more or less fitted :-) Don't forget to open the appropriate holes in the wing (bearing in mind that the kit 300 litre tanks are undersized as previously mentioned) and fuselage underside for the fuel tanks/bomb rack (whichever you're using) and the pitot. Also on my kits I had to open up the hole for the inboard aileron mass balance, it's not mentioned and I can't see why it would be flashed over but all mine were.

At the stage of the main construction being finished, to make painting easier (and so I wouldn't knock them all off), I left off the landing light, crew ladder, aerial mast from the cockpit top, the exhausts, the loop aerial, the props and spinners, the main wheels, gun barrels, under fuselage aerial and the aerials on the lower rear fuselage. In fact for these last ones I eventually didn't use the kit parts anyway, I used the parts provided by Eduard. I'll also mention the exhausts here. I know I should have drilled them out (at least the ones pointing up) but I was making five of these, OK? Even just doing the ones pointing up that's 60 little fiddly holes. I just couldn't face it. So I painted them black. Call me a wimp if you want, I stand by my choice. It's not like there not enough stuff to do, the masking of three of these canopies with little bits of masking tape took quite long enough, thank you.

So onto paint and decals. The airframe was preshaded with black and the standard scheme of RLM65/70/71 applied. (I quite like doing the splinter schemes, it's not too tricky a masking job compared to some.) For this aircraft I was using the 110 option off the BoB FCM sheet number HB4801 (which covers LOTS of aircraft from both sides, not just 110s, though it doesn't provide national insignia). It represents ?????'s aircraft and has a striking sharkmouth and code letters top and bottom of the wings and looks rather good. Because I had never used FCM decals before I thought I would be smart and despite the gloss finish of the Xtracolor paint I also gave the areas to be decaled a coat of Future to help combat silvering. And I used some sharkmouths from the early SuperScale sheet as I figured they would behave a little better, I couldn't see the quite thick FCM decals going round those curves (the SuperScale ones struggled, as you might expect, though lots of Super Sol and slits with a scalpel got them down). Mostly. And the FCM decals silvered anyway :-( The national insignia came from a variety of sources, including the kit decals which behaved perfectly well.

Then it was a coat of matt with a little semi matt to give it a slight sheen 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.

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Last updated 04 November 2007

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