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FOUR SCHEMES ARE

OFFERED:

• G9+DF W.Nr 720260 Oblt. Heinz-
  Wolfgang Schnaufer, Stab IV./NJG
  1, St Trond, Belgium April 1944.


• D5+AA Maj. Helmut Lent, CO
  Stab NJG 3, Stade, Germany
  September 1944.


• 2Z+FR Hptm. Wilhelm Johnen, 7./
  NJG6, Neubiberg, Germany 1945.


• G9+DC Stab 11./NJG1. Bad
  Langensalza, Germany, 1945.

These all have variations of RLM

76/75/74 camouflage, either with

the original splinter uppers or

with a heavy overspray of RLM

76. Eduard provides their usual
    clear instructions, with colour
    callouts for Mr. Hobby paints.
    Typical of Eduard, there
    are loads of spare bits on
    the sprues, (many G-
    weapons, the un-armoured
    fuselage, and smaller rudders,
    for instance) and at the time of
    writing, plastic-only overtrees
    were also available (#7094X)
    I decided to go with Hptm.
    Johnen’s machine, since it had the
    very late canted aerials and a tail-
    warning antenna, and appealed as
    something slightly different; the
    combination of radar and weapons
    probably categorise this machine
    more specifically as a Bf 110G-4c/R3.

BUILD

This will be familiar territory

to anyone who has built one

of Eduard’s recent 1/72 or 1/

Luftwaffe aircraft (or even seen one

reviewed!) Parts breakdown, use

of PE, and painting instructions

all follow the typical Eduard

pattern, starting with the cockpit

basics, and adding increasing

degrees of microscopic detail

through the use of the brass.

As always with these things, I

tend to find a natural limit to what

I’m able and/or willing to add, and

in 1/72 at least, this appears to be

about coincident with what can

be appreciated after completion.

The cockpit goes together

smoothly after painting the

interior plastic with Tamiya XF-

for the RLM 66, highlighted by

adding 25% white and shadowing

with a bit of dilute Mr. Hobby

H77 tire black. A faint dry-brush

with some lightened Payne’s

Grey oils adds some depth.

With the Eduard belts fitted to

the seats, the trademark multi-

layer instrument panel in place,

and a few other placards and panels

added, the fuselage halves can

be closed up. The fit is excellent,

needing only some minor cleaning

up and re-emphasis of a few panel

lines lost to minor sanding.

The wing is equally painless,

as long as you remember to drill

out the holes for the drop tank

frames and, if the ETC rack is

to be fitted, to not open up the

central shell case chutes. Each of

I used a Hold and Fold to make sure the template was square

The cockpit has some nice detail in the

instruments, radar/radio boxes, and the

Shräge Musik guns

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