BarryW
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They say, 'All kits have issues' but this one has no issues so the rule does not apply.
This has to be the best model I have ever built, absolutely loved this build, brilliant design and superb engineering. if pressed to find something wrong I might refer to the aerial mast on the fin, as being moulded in its also very vulnerable, mine broke before I worked out how to protect it. Some plastic card resolved that one.
This late 109 demonstrates the challenges faced by Germany' manufacturing late in the war. Kotare explain in the instructions how panels often didn't fit and they reproduce this by design, not to an extreme extent, just enough to satisfy those wanting as accurate kit. Also it demonstrates the vagaries of paint supplies with panels being painted in different RLM76 shades or even left unpainted. The top camo comprises different schemes and overpainted numbers. It was painting that offered the biggest challenge.
This has to be the best model I have ever built, absolutely loved this build, brilliant design and superb engineering. if pressed to find something wrong I might refer to the aerial mast on the fin, as being moulded in its also very vulnerable, mine broke before I worked out how to protect it. Some plastic card resolved that one.
This late 109 demonstrates the challenges faced by Germany' manufacturing late in the war. Kotare explain in the instructions how panels often didn't fit and they reproduce this by design, not to an extreme extent, just enough to satisfy those wanting as accurate kit. Also it demonstrates the vagaries of paint supplies with panels being painted in different RLM76 shades or even left unpainted. The top camo comprises different schemes and overpainted numbers. It was painting that offered the biggest challenge.
