June 2021 – Håkan Ekberg Music, tarot

20 June, 2021

Bf110E – Figure painting

As can be seen in previous posts, I’ve started painting the pilot figures. The other day when I decided to continue, one of the arms fell off. For some reason it wasn’t glued properly.
Even though I have plastic carpet, the arm were nowhere to be found. So I decided to make a replacement arm with two component clay.

After some painting the figures turned out like this.

The pilot with teh re-made arm — The pilot with the re-made arm

Perhaps I could have put more effort, but I think they turned out ok.

Now they will be put in place and next I’ll start masking the canopy. First time using a masking set. Have to see how that turns out.

11 June, 2021

Bf110E trop – update

I’ve painted the propeller blades, spinners and engine nacelles.

I’ve also done some filling and sanding, and assembled the tail and nose. In the pic I’ve also test fitted the nacelles.

Lastly I’ve started doing some work with the fuel tanks and bombs. Not sure which loadout to use.

Still have things like landing gear and other details to paint, and a large canopy to mask, but I’m getting closer to paint.

4 June, 20214 June, 2021

New build, Bf110E trop in 1/72 by Airfix.

As a member of the groupbuild group on facebook, I decided to join their latest groupbuild called all things Airfix. Meaning that any kit produced or boxed by Airfix could be built.
Which means that the variation could be rather big.
My contribution will be the Bf110E trop in 72nd scale.

I started with the cockpit, as usual on many plane models, and painted the interior in RLM66.

I also started painting the figures.

Then I did some assembly and painted the main wheel wells in RLM02.

I added the instrument decal, which is barely visible in this pic. I afterwards realised that I should have painted the panel in a lighter grey colour, which would have made the instruments more visible.

As I needed putty and new brushes for this and coming builds, I ordered some Mr White putty in two different versions.

And the brushes I got in my local hobby shop.

I haven’t tried the brushes yet, but will as soon as I continue painting the figures.

Fitting the cockpit into the fuselage halves took some time, and required sanding and checking. Luckily I checked the fit of the bottom wing half. I had to sand the bottom of the cockpit down a bit to get a smooth transition between body and underside of the wing section.

underside of fuselage — Underside of fuselage

Once enough material was sanded down, the wings fitted quite well.

The upper wing halves was quite easy to get in place and the fit was very good.

Lastly I testfitted the coolers. Looks nice, I think and only need some painting before I can glue them in place.

Next up is the the tailplane and the nose with its guns and hopefully I’ll managed to paint the pilots, so I can fit them before adding the canopy.