Despite being amazingly busy at work, yet another record breaking year I have still made time late evenings most days to do a little model building though my 'pace' has slowed.
In the mid-1930's a concept was developed for a large twin engined long range heavy fighter. The German Luftwaffe's expression of this concept was the Bf110.
Initially in the early months of WW2 the aircraft proved effective but the aircraft and concept showed its shortcomings during the Battle of Britain when the Bf110 faced small modern and nimble single engined fighters like the Hurricane and Spitfire. They just could not match the British duo in combat and so the type was relegated to a fighter-bomber and night fighter role. It was, however, a success in these roles and was very effective.
My model is the Dragon kit in 1/32 scale. The instructions for this model are best described as a 'rough guide to where most parts probably go' and, consequently, I had to do a lot on on-line research to work out how to build this model. The plastic was excellent however, the photo etched parts were poor and the decals superfiscal. I had to download the instructions of a smaller 48 scale Eduard Bf110 to get internal painting call outs and found that these instructions were more help than the kit instruction with what fits where!! EagleCal decals provided the extra decals needed included a lot of colourful 'stencilling' and swastikas that were missed from the kit.
The specific aircraft depicted was flown by Lt Karl Koch of 1.(Z)/JG77 from Norway in 1941. The camo scheme is the mid-war RLM74/RLM75/RLM76 scheme. Paints Vallejo Model Air and Gunze metallic buffables.
Overall, despite the shortcomings, this was a very enjoyable build with an excellent fit.
