Here's my latest all action ground/air diorama supposedly set in France in
early 1940. The Me110 is another of Hobbyboss's Easy Builds. It has more failings than some of the other kits in the range mostly centered around the
cockpit. This has two seats, for example, but both facing forward equipped with a control stick. Also, there is a fine instrument panel decal - but no actual panel. Then there is the rear machine gun which is the size of heavy
canon and, if added to the kit as instructed, would point almost vertically upward. Some modification needed here then. More, the main wheels look
rather thin to me and should the cockpit windscreen of an early version really have an armored panel? Aside from those gripes it goes together
fairly well and looks the part.
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As usual, I finished the model (as with the other bits and pieces here) with Tamiya acrylics, artists' acrylic washes,
and drybrushings of the same. Kit decals (which are amazingly comprehensive - to the point where I got fed up trying to apply all the tiny, tiny servicing stencils: Easy Build?) but with the fuselage codes mixed up to give an anonymous generic machine.
The tanks are the old but truly excellent Matchbox set which come complete
with the rear wall and are a little underscale, but look OK here I think.