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Our brand new Bf 109G-6 has already been
feeding various Internet discussion boards for
five weeks now, and it doesn ́t seem like things
are about to change. Despite there being plenty
of discussion regarding the details of this new
release, this has been totally eclipsed by many
forum ‘flames’ which singled out the dimensions
of our new kit. Unfortunately, we do have to ad-
mit that our kit is definitely larger than the scale
for which it was designed, and therefore oversi
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zed. It is our fault. We admit that. We wrongly
calculated the expected dimensional attributes
of the final model, in comparison with the master
model we were using. In our case, this is a virtu
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al 3D master model. If we accept 9020 mm as
a correct length of the real aircraft, then we are
about some 3 mm longer in scale, which means
the kit is about 1.5% larger than it should be,
and therefore gives an overall scale of 1:47.26.
Concerning the wingspan, we are wider in ove
rall span by about 2.6mm on each half of the
wing, giving an average oversize of around
2.5%. I want to let you know that I’m personally
very sorry that this has happened. We are cu
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rrently finding ways in which we can fix this pro
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blem, but please understand that acquiring the
correct dimensional accuracy and implementing
this with tooling re-works requires time.
The destiny of this release is in your hands now.
You have to decide, if the dimensional problems
are so huge, and so dominant a factor, that it de-
stroys the other qualities of this kit. By this, I mean
the quality of our overall detail. I also mean the
quality of the surface details and the fit of the
parts, which are exceptional, without a doubt.
We are searching for a way
in which to make wing shorter
without loosing the proportions
of the kit. As the kit is larger
in scale than it should be, it
is important that we keep in
proportion the parts of the
model as a whole. I already
read about one solution, which
was to cut the wing down in
the last outboard panel, be-
fore the wingtip. Don ́t do it!
The wingtip shapes may look
strange, and you may proba-
bly not find these shapes and
dimensions on any published
drawing of the Bf 190G-6, but
I assure you that it is indeed
correct. We traced the actual
shape for this area around a
real aircraft wingtip. This also
answers the question about what we do in the
museum; if we don ́t actually record the correct
scale dimensions. It is simple. We never take ge-
neral dimensions. We always verify the dimen-
sional details for problematic areas/shapes of
these most noticeable areas. There are plenty of
such problems during the design of any kit, and
because 2D drawings are not always correct,
these pictures often depict the shapes of these
areas in an unclear manner. Cross-sections can
be particularly problematic, with the side view
and subsequent plot not matching as they should.
What we are really interested in is how they
look on the actual machine. How does this subject
really look? As I have already said, we never
take general dimensions. That’s simply not the
way that Eduard works. The topical issue here is
a technical error; not one of unknown dimensions.
The published dimensions are correct, the length
of 9020 mm, the wingspan of 9924 mm. I am
sure we will find a solution to these issues, and we
will have these corrections implemented for the
boxings which will follow the Royal Class edition