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Info EDUARD 09/2024, Page 5
Info EDUARD 09/2024, Bf 109 G-10 1/72 - What the new kit offers
Bf 109 G-10 1/72
When I submitted an article about the 72nd
scale Mustang kit and its benefits to modelers,
I was not reprimanded for it, and on the back of
it I promised that if the opportunity arose and
I was asked, I would write something else similar.
Little did I know that the opportunity would arise
the very next month and that I would be asked
almost immediately. I understood right from the
get go that it would not be so easy and that it
would be better to stick to the spirit of a famous
quote from an equally famous play. How can
I write something that will differ from the
previous article in more than just the name of
the kit? I thought about it for three weeks, put
together two Bf 109 G-10s in the meantime and
one other Messerschmitt from a competitor to
have some comparison and benchmark of quality,
value and the like. The third in the party was
the Japanese Bf 109 G-6, but that's okay. While
building two G-10 kits, I found two minor errors,
one on the molding and one in the instructions.
The result of my efforts and thinking is the
following writeup.
There really isn't much to add to the kit and
its construction either compared to the Mustang
or compared to the previous ‘109s. In terms of
every aspect, it is very much an Eduard kit. The
plastic sprues are cleanly molded and the parts
fit together perfectly. The first kits from the
series of Bf 109 F/G/K in 1:72nd, the Bf 109 F and
G-2/G-4 had one questionable part from this
point of view in the gun troughs for the fuselage
machine guns, which were glued separately into
openings in the engine cowl on each fuselage
half. The designers stuck to this solution, already
used on the 1:48th scale kits. They had a pretty
good reason for that, keeping the engine cover
compact. But the problem is that this created
a complex parting line on the mold along the
contour line of the openings for the troughs in the
engine cover, which is also the contact plane for
gluing the parts together. Any imperfection in the
molding here causes a problem with the parts
fitting together. And, unfortunately, thats what
happened, even though we played with the fine
tuning of the mold for a really long time, we even
redid the inserts for the Bf 109 F and adjusted
the technological process of mold production for
the G-2 and G-4. This helped, but many modelers
and reviewers continue to report a problem with
this aspect of the kit. For the Bf 109 G-6 and G-10,
the approach has been altered, with the upper
part of the nose with the gun troughs is glued as
a separate part into the hole in the upper part of
the fuselage.
The problem with the alignment of the gun
troughs is solved by using this method, but on the
other hand, it results in a visible joint between
the fuselage halves and panel that contains the
troughs. It was not a feature on the real plane, so
on the model the line needs to be lightly puttied
and sanded. It's no Grand Canyon, it's a line in
the order of a fraction of a millimeter that looks
just like an engraved line on the assembly. If you
don't cut into the plastic somewhere or damage
the part, you won't be able to putty much, unless
you really want to be absolutely historically and
technically accurate. In that case, on the Erla and
Messerschmitt models, you can putty the access
cover to the compressed air cylinder for the
MK 108 fuselage gun in front of the fifth fuselage
bulkhead on the right side of the fuselage, which
was only present on the Bf 109 G-10/U4, the
WNF machines. There is no need to putty the
joint between the fuselage and the vertical fin,
which is glued in the same way as the Bf 109 F
and G, as well as the Mustang...just inserting it
inbetween the fuselage halves before they are
glued together. In fact, this part does not even
need to be glued in place at all, just inserted
between the fuselage halves just before they
are cemented together. The fin pulls itself into
the correct position and locks in place. Similarly,
the undercarriage legs settle into their correct
position. These are again glued into a tunnel in
the wheel wells that creates a housing for the
pins located on the landing gear leg that seats
them in the correct position.
There is even no need to putty the joint
between the wing assembly and the fuselage.
At its trailing edge, the joint connects to the
engraving of the fuselage bulkhead and, after
installing the wing in the fuselage, creates a line
of width identical to the width of the panel line.
This is actually one of the innovations employed
since the 48th scale kit, where the joint between
the wing and fuselage was a constant target
of criticism. The same can be said of the older
solid position lights. In the 72nd scale kit, these
are transparent and separate items. By the way,
this is an element that we included in the kits at
the request of modelers and reviewers. We didn't
really want to get into the separate position lights.
I myself was against it for a long time, because
I considered it, and still do, a difficult element
that complicates the construction of the model,
and offers no major advantage when considering
the additional construction complexity. Even
separating the part from the frame and cleaning
the sprue gate is a demanding operation for me,
requiring strong nerves and a steady hand. I'm
nervous doing that, and at least one of those
slippery little buggers are guaranteed to escape
the grip of my tweezers and disappear into the
oblivion of the cosmos. Irreversible. I've never
found one of these after the fact. However, I'm not
lamenting and you shouldn't be lamenting either,
you got what you wanted. Most of you, anyway.
To make things a little easier for you, you have
spare lights on the clear sprue. Who else will do
that for you?
I consider the wing solution to be the highlight
of this kit, especially when it comes to its design.
It is completely separate, and allows the control
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