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an option would have been
nice. The etched parts are
typical of Eduard, the belts
and instrument panel being
essential in such a visible
interior, although as always,
the colour is a bit fragile and
needs care when bending
the parts so that it
doesn’t spall of.
Construction
looks
straightforward
and trouble-free, and
there are ive interesting
schemes provided in the
kit, and these are KG+EM
SonderKommando Blaich,
Libya 1942 – RLM 79 and RLM
80 over RLM 76, WL+IQBR
France 1940 – RLM 24 (blue)
over RLM 65, snake motif,
WL+IAWI Germany 1939 – RLM
61/62/63 over RLM 65, BK+ZS

Hungary 1942 – RLM 74/75/76

‘ighter scheme’ overlaid with

white winter camoulage,

and NF+MS Eastern Front

1942 – White (patchy) over

RLM 65. To add some inesse

to the kit parts, the Aires

separate tail surfaces set was

also available, and having

trawled the Eduard website

for potential Brassin add-ons,

I could only come up with a

wooden propeller to replace the

later metal prop and spinner

supplied, which is only relevant

to the SonderKommando

scheme ofered.

Construction began typically

with the cockpit, with an

immediate decision on whether

to it the four seats or use the

range-extending auxiliary

tanks in place of one of the

rear seats. I chose this option

because the yellow colour of

the tanks would cheer up the

interior. There are etched belts

for all four places, the centre

console and some detail for the

sidewalls and I particularly

liked the realistic attachment

of the front seat shoulder belts

to the structural beam behind

the seats. Before assembly, the

loor, sidewalls and

rear bulkhead

were painted a

combination of

Mr Hobby H70 (RLM 02) and

H61 greys, the seats Vallejo

Leather Brown and the tanks

H413 Yellow. The tanks come in

two halves with moulded-on

securing straps, and typically,

by the time they’re glued and

sanded, they’re distinctly oval.

I bit the bullet and sanded of

the moulded-on straps and

replaced them with much more

in-scale lead foil and a iller

neck from a tube. With the

tanks and seats in place, the

rest of the cockpit assembles

neatly, and I gave it a thin

brown oil wash to bring out

the detail. The Argus engine,

engine mounts and irewall

The kit wing with leading edge slat moulded closed

The slat cut free using razor saw and scriber

The inner face

closed off

The Brassin prop is a much

better shape to represent

the wooden item fitted to

most Bf 108s

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