I was hoping to get my next update in last week. But there was always one more thing to add. But finally I am ready to close the fuselage's up.
Firstly, the rear compartment. This is both the left side's of each fuselage. As I mentioned before, Eduard has you fit all the radio kit in both, but I made the choice of only doing it in the left one
And a close up of the left side of the left fuselage. The 5 Radio's and the ammo holders are all Eduard, the rest is scratched from spare PE and sheet styrene.
And the two right sides.
And here the cockpits. Theres still a bit more to do, but this can be done after I have closed it up.
Last week I realised I had made an error. I noticed in my reference pics that the box for holding the parachute, circled below,
are to far back. They should be under the forward window not the rear. This meant that the foot rail extends to far. This was all caused by the compartment floor being to long. The bit that the parachute box's are on was originally Eduard, I changed it for styrene as it wasn't wide enough. I took the compartment floor to that.
There should also be a seat on the right side, about here.
But again, there's no room due to the gunners foot rail.
I am not changing this now, but I have noted it for next time. I have a few more 111's in the stash, and I won't be making the same mistake next time. And I also don't want someone to use my pics as a guide and make the same error.
I would very much recommend the Squadron walk around if you plan on doing this. There is more to add than I have if you want to go full out, which I may do next time. But for my first scratch building at this level, I am pretty pleased with this much.
Just don't make the mistake I did, and make sure you checked the photo's properly.
Thanks for looking, hopefully i'll have more by the weekend.