Messerschmitt Bf-109Z by cog - FINISHED - Eduard - 1/48 - PLASTIC - twin Bf-109G-2

[cog]

Very short build log, since I started this last year. I found information on the net for the Messerschmitt Bf 109Z (Zwilling) I partly used information of the ME 109Z (Zerstörer) and anything I could find on the net.

 

Eduard has, besides their full kits, overtrees for certain models which are in fact stripped boxes. No PE, no decals, just the plastic parts. I used two of their BF 109G-2 (82116) overtree since I had to do a fair amount of kit bashing. I started to modify the centre wing by cutting a righ and left wing, one from each kit. Created the center bottom part making a very large wing. After that I build the body with the cockpit, with the standard plstic interior, and the new colsed fuselage for thge other side. After that, the difficulties started. I had to heat the under side of the centre wing to bend it and get both fuselages vertical, after that I could start with the top of the centre wing. I preshaped styrene, and filled the wing as much as possible to be able to glue the formed styrene to the lower wing between the two fuselages. After that ther was the rear wing which had to be scratch built. I used laminated styrene to get the right thickness and sanded that down to shape, after wich I used putty to smooth the scratches out. Once that was done I could start to paint.

 

Here goes

[cog]

Next step: rattle cans ... First grey primer. more sanding and yet more primer. Since I wanted to do same shading and weathering, I used a previously applied method of black basing. Hence the black body colour - got that from an aussie builder on the Tube (not RGL ) Next step painting the panels with an airbrush, a light colour to define the panels, and then layers of the final colour or camouflage. The weathering has been done with a brush (all AK paints/powders) Paint used:

Grey primer: Tamiya (rattle can)

Black primer: Vallejo (rattle can)

Airbrush Mr Paint (need to get the colour numbers, memory isn't that good )

 

 

Edited January 19, 2021 by cog

[Old Collingwood]

Great seeing you back on the build front Carl.

 

OC.

[cog]

Last but not least, the display. Since I wanted something flying, I started looking for moving props, which I found State side. Propblur, but to make it look like the plane is actually flying I couldn't let it be just slightly above ground, and I thought about it flying above, or through clouds. I experimented with coton, and I finaly decided for aquarium filter coton, and here is the result

 

 

 

Edited January 19, 2021 by cog

[cog]

Thanks OC, there are still some kits to finish ... but this brought back some fun in building

[Edwardkenway]

Quite an eerie scene you've created,  it looks  marvellous 🙂

[Old Collingwood]

13 minutes ago, Edwardkenway said:

Quite an eerie scene you've created,  it looks  marvellous 🙂

I agree  with Edward  - what a super way of showing her off  - great imagination excellently done.

 

OC.

[cog]

Thanks gents, much appreciated! It seems I managed to create a flying German Gemini

[Canute]

Great presentation, with the a/c zipping along in a cloud-top. Very menacing looking

[popeye the sailor]

hey there....long time!      great looking project......very nice dio too!   I haven't kit bashed a plastic model in years.........I do it to wood now.   I saw a kit of this very plane out there.......really neat how you did it!  

[lmagna]

I was hoping you would post your build when I saw it yesterday Carl. Looks even better in the closeup pictures! I still almost would call it a scratch build rather than a bash. Congratulations 

[popeye the sailor]

with as much as you did to it,  I would too   

[cog]

Thanks gents, "likes" and comments much appreciated. It was a fun project, even if it took me quite a while ... probably due to the COVID-blues Time to get the Ferrari 330 P4 back on the table. The kit will also be slightly bashed, it gets an open engine bay, and an engine I bought through ebay. I got another engine through Modelbuilders Ware House which is by far more detailed and looks the part (for the second kit I've got)

[Old Collingwood]

Waiting inpatiently Carl.

 

OC.

[Landlubber Mike]

Wow, that's really cool looking!  Love it, very unique display!  

 

Those Zwillings were crazy designs.  

[cog]

Thanks Mike. The Germans had few more such designs. I've found a few kits i.e. the Ho 229  (Hoorden) and another Messerschmit: ME - 329 (a flying saucer) To be built sometime in the future

[Canute]

Getting into the Luft '46 realm.  Many designs that never made it off the designer's drawing board. And there are a few manufacturers of resin kits for some, too.