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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 7/24/2006 8:34:04 PM   
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This is a great build thread. When I tackle these plans myself I'm going to use this thread as build instructions. You have given us some great tips and pointers along the way. I hope that the other's that have contributed will continue to do so as well.

Tubig you have a great looking airplane coming together, I hope you will keep posting all the way through with some video of the maiden when its complete.


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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 7/25/2006 3:55:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		thanks brian, i appreciate the nice words. i will continue to post (as long as i continue to progress ). i had hoped to complete this one within a year but it looks like it's going to be much longer. however, i am in the detailing phase now and i just have to decide how much of that i want to do.

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 7/26/2006 12:32:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		filled in some smaller areas that needed to be touched up on the wing. nothing really to show there. but i also added a couple small details to the fuselage before finishing the priming/sanding stage. i added a small hole on the right side forward fuse that was used for the engine crank handle which was just opened up with a round file. and i added a hole on each side of the rear fuse which was used to insert a bar for raising the tail. for this i cut a 1/4" piece of 3/16" aluminum tube and sealed one end with balsa. this was then inserted into holes opened up with a round file.



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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/19/2006 3:39:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		today i closed the gap between the wing fairing upstand and fuselage. really not necessary because there is a fairing on the full size that covers this gap but it also helps the wing to seat better. i used the ol tried and true monokote dam/microballoon filler method. i applied monokote to the fuselage sections at the rear and along the fuselage side of the wing/fuse gap and at the forward ply former that mates with the cowl. troweled on the microballoons to the wing side and screwed on the wing.

pic 2: close up after drying and sanding.

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/19/2006 3:42:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		while the 'balloons were were drying i went back and recovered the tail control surfaces. when i covered them originally with Skyloft i managed to dope the tissue to part of the trailing edge of the fin and both elevator halves giving a scalloped look to them which was REALLY ugly. any i cut out the Skyloft in the open bay areas, lightly sanded and put on Solartex. i'd heard good things about Solartex and wanted to give it a try. it's good stuff. i think i'll get more.

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/20/2006 12:34:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		a little more accomplished today. added the wing/fuse fairing from 1/32" ply (the last of the laser cut parts). and finished sanding the bondo from the fuse and wing.

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/20/2006 12:43:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		i also started working on the fairing pieces on the horizontal stab. since the horizontal stab's incidence could be adjusted it had a fairing between the horizontal and vertical stabs. BT used lithoplate for this but i've not been able to find any in asia (probably not asking the right question) so i used K&S's soft .005" aluminum. first i bent a 3/32" wide strip at a right angle and then cut off the strip after measuring out another 3/32". then using a ruler i pressed the aluminum piece in place and ca'ed it down to the horizontal stab only and again using the ruler pressed the opposite piece against the fin. i've only done the bottom of the stab so far but i think it's gonna look ok. just need to see how it looks with primer on.

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/25/2006 12:59:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		finished the top of the stab fairings along with a shot of both sides from the front. the little bit of aluminum in front simulates a small trim piece on the prototype.

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/25/2006 1:09:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		got a head start on the wing cannons. started by drilling a 1/4" hole in the wing for the cannon to sit in and then widened it out to 3/8". and the beginnings of a MG FF 20mm cannon. it won't be permanently installed until after leaving the paint factory. i will probably have a small stub glued into the wing for the real cannon to slid into thereby making it removable.

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/25/2006 1:14:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		finally for today i permanently glued on the horizotal stab struts and began work on the strut "boots". to make the boots i layed out several layers of masking tape and cut out a mask to fit around the strut ends. then i troweled on some 'balloons. now for the tedious work of sanding to shape.

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/26/2006 12:50:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		here are the finished boots after an afternoon of sanding. just needs a little putty to fill in some pins holes and some areas that pulled away with the tape.

and thought i'd thrown in a couple of motivational shots (for me anyway as i'll be taking a couple of weeks off from this for now).

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/26/2006 10:14:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hmmm, that's an interesting spotted cammouflage paint job I haven't seen before...

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/27/2006 1:32:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		that's funny antonio. what do ya think? should i keep it?

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RE: BT Bf109E-4 - 8/27/2006 2:25:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		After further study, I am convinced it's a paint scheme developped by Adolf himself to blind allied pilots (due to its sheer uglyness). Only 3 prototypes were built and soon thereafter destroyed, after the ground crews would mysteriously go insane. Another secret weapon of the 3rd Reich revealed!

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