Photo Review of Trumpeter's 48th Scale Me-509

[Sharkmouth]

The sprues are all separately packed in their own plastic sheaths.

The canopy received styrofoam wrapping to protect it. The PE is also wrapped in plastic/

The instructions are easy to follow and complete the aircraft in six steps. Both decal options are obviously fictional. No swastikas are included.

This looks like fun for the Luftwaffe 1946 fans.

Regards,

 

[chukw]

Looks like a German p-39! Like.

 

[Sharkmouth]

If you build it & blog it, it is yours...

Regards,

 

[chukw]

Oh, you tempter! It would only have a million planes ahead of it!

 

[chukw]

Dammit, now I keep coming back to this! Saul= :evil:

:yipee

 

[jknaus]

Dammit, now I keep coming back to this! Saul= :evil:

:yipee

I concur

 

[Sharkmouth]

It's a $33 kit but it is yours (for shipping) as long as you build it so we all can see!

It isn't my cup of tea but you can join the SciFi campaign with it!
:hmmm

Don't feel bad, my son and I have the Kayaba Katsuodori Ramjet Fighters to build together. You noticed that I didn't offer those?

:evil:

Regards,

 

[Sharkmouth]

Oh, by the way, even though it has an instrument panel decal, the plastic piece has lovely relief detail. Best approach would be to punch out the dials from the decal and use them. The gear bays have separate walls ensuring nice internal detail too. Obviously, it is all conjecture!

The wing tip navigation lights have a mounting pin that you paint in the color you want, then paint the rest in chrome silver, attach and polish.

The armament and exhaust pipes need hollowing out or replacing with metal tubing and Ultracast exhausts (either those for the Bf109F-K or Macchi C-205 work) and you are set!

Regards,

 

[chukw]

It's ON!!!

 

[SA Dave]

Go Chuck Go - I would love to see what you can do OOB

 

[Sharkmouth]

Some close up photographs to show details:

Regards,

 

[kryptosdaddy]

I'll take it for shipping! That is interesting- never built a trumpy kit before.

 

[Sharkmouth]

I'll take it for shipping! That is interesting- never built a trumpy kit before.

Sorry Chip,

Chukw beat you to it! I posted these images so all he has to do is build. One thing to note is that the bulges on the wings are different sizes. Not a problem as they really don't belong there and should be sanded off. The wheel bay internal detail won't be affected.

Regards,