Marek BF109E 1:33 Build - Page 2

**Erik Zwaan** · #11 09-02-2015, 07:32 AM

Looking good Charles. I like the glue tabs on the inside wheel wells

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Groete,
Erik

**Ofanim** · #12 09-02-2015, 12:23 PM

Very good !
I bought the Swiss one two weeks ago so when I will build it I will follow this thread with attention
Regards,
Ronan

**Charles Swart** · #13 09-02-2015, 10:57 PM

Ronan, if I look at your F16 build, I might just have to follow your build and redo mine!

**milenio3** · #14 09-10-2015, 07:15 PM

Very interesting... I'm glad to see a "model by Marek" being built.

I'm waiting to see the complete nose.

**alzictorini** · #15 09-13-2015, 05:04 AM

Charles

What an interesting camo on this 109. Good build, keep it up buddy (I love 109s).

Regards

**sparrowhawk** · #16 09-13-2015, 06:31 AM

Looks very good. I prefer the early angular 109 A to E versions over the later ones, so I will follow your build closely.
BTW: Does Marek know of this build and is he member of this forum?

Cheers, Martin

**Charles Swart** · #17 10-14-2015, 11:55 PM

I almost gave up on this model after having it 95% complete, and thanks to my dog, Buster, getting hold of it. He destroyed the wings and a few other parts. Then I saw the models and stories posted by Hyair and it inspired me to get going again. I managed to salvage most of the fuselage and decided to complete that first before starting on the wings again. I built a template using the wire templates supplied with the model and used some plastic from a sandwich container. I found that some plastic shrink when heated, while others just go soft. For canopies I prefer the ones that shrink. To help keep the form I glued two flat sticks to the edges and put it under tension with some elastic bands. Canopy actually does not look too bad. Last photo just a test fit, still need to reform the wire former on the fuselage for a better fit. If I had to rebuild this model and go for a closed canopy, I would form all 3 parts of the canopy as a single part.

**eric_son** · #18 10-15-2015, 12:59 AM

Buster looks very remorseful.

Anyway, it's looking great!

**sparrowhawk** · #19 10-16-2015, 10:13 AM

Maybe you should not name your dog "Buster". He probably just tried to live up to his name. :D
BTW: I had a similar experience with a rubber powered model of the Ryan ST trainer when I was about 15 years old: Had it almost finished, came home from school to mate wings, fuselage and empennage just to see all that was left were shreds of balsa wood and covering tissue and a dog that looked very guilty.
I went quite mad about the incident. By today´s standards the model probably was rather crude and not worth the bother.

**Charles Swart** · #20 10-18-2015, 10:32 PM

I have finally completed this model. Looking back now, I would rate the complexity 3/5, but during the build I often thought it to be much higher due to the fact that apart from the very busy 3 page schematic diagrams, you have to do a lot of figuring out on your own. Some sections I had to redo 2 or 3 times to achieve the correct outcome. There are a few flaws in my build like the canopy not lining up 100%, will do the canopy as a single piece if I ever build this model again. Also while cropping the photos for this post, I noticed that I never installed the gun barrels (will rectify that this afternoon). All in all, this is a very good looking model and had very few fit problems that could not be attributed to my lack of skill.