Gpm bf 108 taifun

[dje]

Hi everybody,
I jumped into this great hobby for some time now and I'm feeling comfortable enough to share my work with you. hey, looking at others threads, there's strong modellers around there !

I wanted to do something different, so here my last build - for the next one I will try to give a more in time report - : GPM Bf 108 taifun

Let's skip the historical part and just jump into the model.

Got the book for 7.3€, laser cut at 3€ ; for the gear, I will use la5's resin from my stock (3.65€), they're match almost perfectly.

Looked not that hard, 4 A4 sheets with parts - not a lots of them - , typical 180g paper, 2 A3 with sketches and instructions, several photos from a finished model.
At first not so must difficulty, at least nothing I already got into, maybe the canopy will be challenging.
Decent detail for the interior but none for engine. No ailerons neither flaps. To bad that really enhance a model.
No swastika on the tail, and no optional part like with the bf109. I won't start a debate on that...

Let's be honest, price is correct but still a little expensive for what you got (ordered halinski for that price). Anyway that's not a common model.

Now the building.
Start with the cockpit, nothing much. I decided to glue inner to outer fuselage part first. Glueing to the frame it's a little tricky ; that fuselage its not as easy as it looks, there's not going to be much space for mistakes.

Continuing to the front. Definitively not that easy, doesn't look like but the shape of that fuselage is challenging. Parts are cut in a way not letting any room for corrections ! ; the doc is of no real help. Even with dry fit preparations had to unglue part #30 (with the logo) and #34 2 times - part #67 wouldn't fit.
And you can see the great engine details !

next part tomorrow !
bye

[dje]

Now rear fuselage and rear cockpit with the 2 windows. I think this section is the harder part of the model, seriously take me an all evening. Has to stretch paper and apply bend at 1/10mm, on 3 sections. It's where the full frame support of yg model are great. After hours and several glue/unglue ended short on bottom front about 1mm (!). No way I can get that fix. Also inner window are a little off.

Tail. No real problem, and last part of the engine, well kind off.

I'm building the wings together before align then to the fuselage,then fold up over the structure. Had to cut into a few bit for every things to fit. On pictures you can see support (32b) Finally they cause more problem than help, removed them.

[nighthawk78]

Great looking model, never really seen this plane before,
NH78

[YOAVHOZMI]

well done....impresive work

YOAV

[MacSongLi]

Very nice detailed clean work. She is looking great.

Gary

[sharunas]

Truthfully, very nice work.

[eagleclaw4935]

I belive this aircraft was used in the movie "The Great Escape" by James Garner and Donald Pleasance.

[dje]

Originally Posted by eagleclaw4935

I believe this aircraft was used in the movie "The Great Escape" by James Garner and Donald Pleasance.

exact !
Post war it took the place of bf 109 in several films. Both look really close, for a good reason, build as an high branch "tourism" plane it served as a test platform for the next one, the bf109. Will post a picture of both together.

Thanks all for your nice comments and encouragements !

[dje]

Last part !

gear, canopy and few details.
As expected, canopy give me some time. First try end in the trashcan, I managed to save the frame. Glued point by point in order to bend the transparent film (it doesn't hold shape). Not perfect, you can see some space at the bottom and between the wind shield.

In conclusion It's a nice model, actually not that difficult, the problem was me, I was too confident and should have studied it more carefully first, would have avoided some issues !

Bonus, picture with big brother, bf109 (gpm too)

[ccoyle]

Very nicely done!