Allan's Me 1101 Progress Piccies

Allan · February 10, 2007, 04:48:50 PM

Hi fellows,
Here's my model as it is so far, artistically posed on some peaches from the back yard. The cockpit was very fiddly and the rudder pedals can't be seen so I dispensed with them. Also there is no real place to put the etched metal side consoles so I just stuck them somewhere in the cockpit that looks good. The steel etched metal was very difficult to file and so I just left some of the small stubs on them.
The Me 1101 is not a pleasing design of a plane--I much prefer the Huckbein and wish I had one.
No idea yet what markings to put on this bird, but I think Don Gentile's Shangrila might be the go--but the stars and bars won't fit on the slender fuselage.

Allan in Canberra

John Howling Mouse · February 10, 2007, 04:50:56 PM

Nice progress so far, Allan.
The peaches, however, are clearly of the wrong era for that variant.

cthulhu77 · February 10, 2007, 05:27:31 PM

Allan, you kill me ! Great way to display a kit, by the way...looking good so far.

Rafael · February 10, 2007, 06:04:57 PM

I like the way the engine assembly is finished, and how it hangs from the fuselage.
Do you have a pic from the front, to see the inlet detail?
Very intriguing plane

Rafa

matrixone · February 10, 2007, 06:17:39 PM

Allan,
The steel PE parts are difficult to work with on these Dragon kits, for removing the stubs a Dremel moto tool is the best way to remove them. A file will work but takes a very long time to do.

Matrixone

Brian da Basher · February 10, 2007, 07:48:00 PM

Looking good, Allan! I love your detail work on the engine and it's great to see your work uniquely posed on some seasonal (for Australia) peaches!

Looks like a "peach" of a build!

Brian da Basher

P.S. For markings you could go either Pre-W.W. I U.S. or French which did not use fuselage roundels.

van883 · February 11, 2007, 06:08:53 AM

Hi
it looks just like the Revell kit I have just posted-if it is, I hope you make a better job of it than me-sensibly you have not mounted the undercarriage retraction struts from the engine "roof" panel. I did as per instructions and they ended up at a very wrong angle. If it isn't the same as the Revell kit, then my advice will make no sense at all...

best wishes

Van

matrixone · February 11, 2007, 09:43:55 AM

Van,
The Dragon and Revell kits of the Me P1011 are the same mold, the Revell kit does not have the steel PE parts, they are instead molded in plastic.

Matrixone

BlackOps · February 11, 2007, 12:45:31 PM

Nice start Allan, Nice to see the model in focus because the peaches look a bit fuzzy to me

Sorry couldn't resist

Looking forward to seeing more of this as it progresses.

matrixone · February 11, 2007, 01:00:20 PM

Wooksta,
Yes the Revell version of the Me 1101 is better but I would not worry about the low tail plane...wind tunnel models in post war testing of the design proved the T-tail version would have cured some of the handling problems the Bell X-5 (Me P1101) had. Had the Germans tried to mass produce the Me P1101 they would have discovered the problems in test flights and tried the T-tail. I think the idea for the T-tail use on the Me P1101 was in some of the captured documents brought over from Germany in late 1945 but it was too late to be included in the Bell X-5 design.

Matrixone