Anyhow, after opening the kit and looking over the parts, I find that Fujimi has done a very nice job of making a very nice clean mold and probably some of the best panel lines ever . They are extremely consistent throughout the kit.
The shortcoming is that they forgot to add all the little scoops and bumps present on the real airframe .
The real bird looks more like a hippo with warts than a Ferrari to me :coolio
So, I began on the engine cowl by adding NACA intakes, scoops , fairings, opening gills and adding some fasteners.
By then day one was over
On day two I worked on getting the prop centered on the cowl .
I also notice that with the gills opened I needed a rear half for the radiator
Going back to the outside I realised that the air box was nowhere close to the real thing...
So, I set out in search through the excess plastic that resides at my house and came up with this BF 109E intake.
Some Dremel work and some glue latter, it looked pretty close.
Finally, I had noticed that the kit exhaust were weak on detail, so I rounded up some Quickboost exhaust which I dearly love.
Here's a sample of the ( 2 ) supplied kit exhaust and the Quickboost which is already primed in black .
On day three , my pigments and washes arrived and I set out to properly dirty up the right one ( in picture ) but it's on a dark back ground, so it's hard to see.
Anyhow, both are done now and much to my surprise, they did not fit in the kit slot the way they normally do.
Chisel in hand, I made them fit !
That's all for now folks . Cheers, Christian B)