There are several notes I need to provide to aid you with the enclosed package.
The original kits
used 1/16" balsa. Since I wanted to print these directly on balsa sheet I developed the parts for 1/32"
balsa sheet. My printer will handle up to 1/20" sheet, but I find 1/32" is a little easier to handle in the
printer. As a result, some of the parts have been drawn to allow for cross grain laminations. The
fuselage formers are a good example. This works fine as long as you are using 1/32" sheet stock.
I like to use a removable nose for winding. The parts have been drawn with this in mind. The nose
former has been drawn so a removable nose plug can be used. A colored nose plug has also been
drawn. Back the colored nose piece with 1/64” plywood. This assembly will then plug into the
opening formed by the fuselage structure. I like to use a Peck thrust bearing for 1/32" prop shafts in
the removable nose plug.
When using 1/32" sheet for the fuselage sides, I was concerned about the load of a fully wound
motor on the rear motor peg. I like to use a piece of 3/32" aluminum tubing for the rear peg. This
makes holding the model in a winding stooge very easy. To create a bit more strength at the rear
peg, I apply a 3/8" diameter disk of 1/64” plywood to the inside of each fuselage side at the peg
location. This has proven to be plenty strong for a fully wound motor of 1/8" Tan II rubber. A piece of
3/32” OD aluminum tubing is used for the rear motor peg.
The landing gear parts for the Me-109 have been modified from the original kit. This was done to
make bending the wire and installation easier. A drawing showing the modified landing gear
installation has been provided. The location of the gear legs has been printed on each wing panel.
You will see a line with a circle on one end. Push the landing gear wire through the printed circle.
The bent wire will line up with the printed line.
Another modification made to the original kit layout was to include a pilot figure. This was done in the
same manner as the Jigtime models. The profile pilot figure is simply glued into the slot provided in a
new pilot support piece that fits between the fuselage sides.
The original kits came with a vacuum formed canopy and an injection molded prop/spinner. The
canopy is easy to make from bent flat clear plastic sheet. A pattern has been provided. The original
kit spinner came molded with a three bladed prop. A separate spinner has been drawn for use with
a better performing two bladed prop.
The original kit had minimal markings printed on the balsa pieces. This reproduction drawing package
uses enhanced markings based on the kit box art.
I do hope you build and enjoy a model from this plan package.
Paul Bradley
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Pilot Support
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Landing Gear
Make from .025 music wire
Wheels are .75” diameter
The canopy is made from thin clear plastic sheet.
Plastic page protectors are a good source. Print the
pattern on white shoe box tissue (art tissue). Glue the
pattern to the plastic sheet using rubber cement. Apply
a thin coat of rubber cement to the tissue and one to the
piece of clear plastic sheet. After it dries for several
minutes place the tissue on the clear plastic sheet.
Using a sharp knife or single edge razor blade carefully
cut the tissue so the panels where clear glass is located
can be removed. Make several very light cuts along the
lines so the clear plastic is not cut. When all the interior
lines have been cut lift a corner of each panel and peel
them off. Any rubber cement residue can be rubbed off.
After all interior panels have been removed so the
canopy glass areas are exposed cut the perimeter lines
of the canopy. Bend the canopy so the sides and wind
Pattern for forming screen bend down. The “flaps” on the front edge of
each side panel also need a slight bend inward. Use a
canopy from flat sheet canopy glue that dries clear to glue the seam formed
between the wind screen and the side panels. When set
glue the canopy to the model.
Spinner
Keil Kraft EeZe Built Me-109
Modification to the nose to allow for a
removable noise piece for stretch winding.
Peck Thrust Bearing
Glued to Nose Piece
Removable nose piece. Use a
piece of 1/64” plywood to
back the printed 1/16” balsa
nose piece
Landing Gear Modification
Wing rib glued on
each wing panel.
Landing Gear leg
goes through the
wing and is
cemented on top.
Use the printed line
and dot on the top of
These pieces sandwich the gear leg the wing as a
piano wire. The gear cover is a two location guide.
piece lamination glued to the rib and
the gear leg.
