Kit bashed 4* into ME 109
10-10-2008 | 05:47 PM
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Kit bashed 4* into ME 109
I know there have been ALOT of threads on four stars, and kitbashing. I wasn't really sure where to post this so I started a new thread, This plane goes way , WAY back ! It has to be at least13 years old.. Has an old FP 40 on it, nothing hi-tech about it. But I thought some of you might get a kick out of it. I didn't go all out on this bash, it was just a simple tweak that I think made it more fun to fly. I raised the stabilizer in the fin to look a little more authentic. I made gun blisters ( a little big ), air scoop, exhaust headers, new canopy...little stuff here and there. Also ( not shown ) I put wire landing gear in the wing.
Also there is someone on rcu that built a nice 4* 120 ME 109, with a glass cowl and some trick parts I believe...
I also helped design and build a 4* spitfire that was in SIGs calendar, years ago. I even had a very bashed 4* 60 that was a typhoon with a killer paint job, and as embarrassing as it is It fell off a wall rack I was building and got creamed on the cement floor, I should have saved it and rebuilt, but I just stripped it out , kept the wing.
Also there is someone on rcu that built a nice 4* 120 ME 109, with a glass cowl and some trick parts I believe...
I also helped design and build a 4* spitfire that was in SIGs calendar, years ago. I even had a very bashed 4* 60 that was a typhoon with a killer paint job, and as embarrassing as it is It fell off a wall rack I was building and got creamed on the cement floor, I should have saved it and rebuilt, but I just stripped it out , kept the wing.
10-10-2008 | 07:15 PM
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RE: Kit bashed 4* into ME 109
Lets see, yes the shop is a mess !!! ha ha I could blame it on the flooding we had this year, ...but, honestly I get much more done when I have projects going everywhere, and I can't find a thing !
The tail struts were not needed, but even though I know it was a bandage fix on the fullscale plane, I always thought they looked cool..So I put them on.
As to the wing, I rounded the tips, and shaped the ailerons a little bit, but other than the landing gear in the wing its pretty basic..
Someone asked about how it flies..It always flew as easy as any other 4*, in fact I had a few people convinced it lands better with wire gear mounted in the wing...
The tail struts were not needed, but even though I know it was a bandage fix on the fullscale plane, I always thought they looked cool..So I put them on.
As to the wing, I rounded the tips, and shaped the ailerons a little bit, but other than the landing gear in the wing its pretty basic..
Someone asked about how it flies..It always flew as easy as any other 4*, in fact I had a few people convinced it lands better with wire gear mounted in the wing...
10-10-2008 | 07:24 PM
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RE: Kit bashed 4* into ME 109
Nice job.
I'll bet they are right about the LG being on the wing. I've had two 4*60's and a third in the garage waithing to be bashed and assembled. The two that I flew were hard to land in that if you still had airspeed when the mains touched down the long movememt to the tail let it drop and you were air borne again. I'll called it my bounce and go. I finaly found that I could push the nose down and prevent it from stalling when it did this, but a greaser was a rare event.
Again, great job.
Don
I'll bet they are right about the LG being on the wing. I've had two 4*60's and a third in the garage waithing to be bashed and assembled. The two that I flew were hard to land in that if you still had airspeed when the mains touched down the long movememt to the tail let it drop and you were air borne again. I'll called it my bounce and go. I finaly found that I could push the nose down and prevent it from stalling when it did this, but a greaser was a rare event.
Again, great job.
Don
10-10-2008 | 07:31 PM
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RE: Kit bashed 4* into ME 109
Someone asked about the wings, so here is a picture of the small 40 size 109 wing, and the larger 60 size typhoon wing, also a bottom shot of the gear install on the 60 size.
