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Wing fillets done.

Mike, you alone are responsible for over half the build logs of kits from this manufacturer we don't see every day, which I suppose makes you our resident expert on them. Whatever became of the box stern and the buy boat?

The radiators are finished. Note to future self (I have two more Halinski 109s in my stash): Notice that the port side cover fits better than the starboard cover. That's because I discovered that the internal parts are all about 0.5 mm too tall. Trimmed them all down by that much and got a much better fit. The next step is to add the wing fillets. That means this is the last time you'll see these two sub-assemblies apart. 😮

Sometimes, yes. But most of the time, our cats are pretty chill.

Okay, I said an extra "wow" when I noticed the cloth grommets on your sails!

Very nice planking job!

Welcome aboard! That is not bad work for a first model -- a lot of first-timers don't even make it this far, so you are ahead of the curve. And it's clear from the photos that you've learned that a wood kit is very forgiving of some 'rough' work if the builder intends to paint it afterwards. Neatness will come with practice. Cheers!

Further to my last post, in this screenshot taken from a Bf 109 walkaround, you can see the flap and radiator door in the lowered position.

You are a braver man than I! Well done!

I guess they must have thought a little extra challenge was in order.

BTW, here's one for the airplane nerds out there: According to what I have read in online sources, the 109's radiator doors were linked to its flaps, the idea being that since the lowered flaps partially blocked the flow of air through the radiators, the flow would be maintained by automatically enlarging the rearward aperture via the linkage. Thus, a model should match the positioning of the radiator doors to the angle of the flaps, i.e., flaps down -- doors down, flaps up -- doors up. The construction diagrams show the doors fully opened, but since I intend to display the model with the flaps up, I will position the radiator doors to match.

They are by no means unique in that regard. Misspelling one's native language is a shared human experience!

A challenge, perhaps, but at least Corel kits typically have good-quality wood. P.S. I have edited the log title, including correcting the spelling of Größe to Große -- the first instance is a noun, the second is the adjective form. Those pesky umlauts!

There is quite a bit of work involved in getting the wing ready to mate to the fuselage. So far I have added the wingtips and gun blisters. Still have the radiators left to do (26 parts for the two radiators).

Some dimensions would help narrow the field a bit. The construction of the stern galleries is quite crude.

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Welcome aboard!

Welcome aboard!

Ah -- the sort of vessel "Lucky" Jack Aubrey would have been snapping up during his time in command of Sophie.

This is a normal feeling to experience. I felt the same way after Helene -- my house was untouched, as were most of the others in my neighborhood (young neighborhood = no mature trees to fall down and crush things), but all around us there was devastation everywhere. Glad to hear you are safe!

Okay, the fix turned out to be not nearly as difficult as I anticipated, and the second wing skin is on. I can now dry fit the structure to the fuselage and make airplane noises. 😋 NYEEEEERRRRRROWWWWW!

Haha! Hold that thought! The problem with wings is that there are two of them, providing the modeler with twice as many opportunities to screw something up. I'm working my way through a fit issue on the second wing skin at the moment. Stay tuned!

One of the problematic parts of the assembly process on the E-4 was definitely the wing, so that's something I wanted to 'get right' on this build. First step was to add the central ventral skin ('central ventral' -- catchy) and wheel wells. The wheel wells on this kit are really rather simple and posed no problems at all. The sort of 'antennae' looking bits are fairings/joiners that will wrap around the wing root and blend into the fuselage. Now this is a shot from the E-4 build. The part I've circled was supposed to have been folded upward to be the trailing edge of the wing, but that wasn't clear to me from either the instructions or diagrams, so I left it un-folded. 😬 Fortunately, it's on the bottom of the wing, so very rarely does anyone see it. Here's the properly done E-7. And here's the dorsal side of the wing, with tips yet to be added. You can see how one of the 'antennae' bits has been wrapped and mated to the wing skin. Now, you may have noticed that the wing skin consists almost entirely of a single skin. For anyone wanting to try a model like this, I've found it to be much easier and neater to not attempt to glue the skin on all in one go. Instead, I work in sections, starting at the wing root and working toward the tip, using the various bits of framing to align everything properly (I should mention that I gave the entire wing frame a light sanding before starting this process). You can see in the photos that everything has come together very well at the various junctures, e.g., wheel wells, radiator wells, skin edges and frames, seam between dorsal and ventral skins. This is a testament to the excellent design. There will be a less-glowing testament once the wing gets mated to the fuselage, but I'll save that for when we get there!

HMS Shawshank??