Kari's Revell 1/32 Bf-110 C-2/C-7

[speedgraflex]

Wonderful. Apologies, I must go on about those oil washes and rust effects... absolutely perfect. I feel a need to absorb these techniques as much as possible, and to send you my very best regards—I must compliment you on such beautiful work: your technique as well as your sense of how these components function. That is critical and too often misunderstood. Bravo.

My takeaway from the barrage of reviews I read (also initial reviews and later release reviews for the Dragon kit with the caveat that parts are retooled):

Instructions are terrible. Assemble the cockpit in halves against the locator pins. Assemble the engines without motors.

At least that is what I read quickly this morning.

However all reviews were unanimous that the kit built a masterpiece.

Interesting!!

[KSaarni]

Thanks Bruce!

Can only agree, those instructions are terrible!
i have used a couple of times Eduards 1/48 instructions for their own kits, to "understand" what Dragon try to tell ...

- Kari

[speedgraflex]

I honestly am planning to write to them. They could use a few of us to build their kits and edit their instructions... but what do I know?

[KSaarni]

I was thinking a little bit the same, but I would write to Revell, who re-boxed the kit but did not do any quality checkups with the instructions. Took a short-cut and just put some own Revell design in the pictures.

One would somehow have thought, that someone within Revell would have built the kit and then you need to follow the instructions.

- Kari

[KSaarni]

And by the way... The belts have not arrived yet ...

- Kari

[KSaarni]

And the belts and masks arrived a moment ago !

Hurrayh, now the finalisation work with the cockpit can finally start and eventually the first big Milestone is reached, closing the fuselage halves.

Masks for the "greenhouse"


The belts


Close up, the "lux" model, they are pre-cutted already!


And buckets, there will some extra left-over buckets even!


Let's see how to tackle this ones now, they need to look good, that is the main thing!

- Kari

[Floki]

I'm glad you went with them belts they are going to look amazing in that pit.

[pzl66]

Those are gonna look SAAAAWEET in that beauty of a cockpit!

[speedgraflex]

Congrats!

[KSaarni]

Ooh, those are really cool pictures Bruce!

Many thanks! I must change they were sort of "chock-therapy", but absolutely in positive sense, truly something "out of the box". Especially the 2nd pic, where the pilots belts are attached into the upper horizontal frame.. Must research a little bit..

Cool stuff all in all !

- Kari