Hi Smilo,
Seems like you enumerated the options pretty well.
I have already chosen not to drop the hot potato. Whether or not it eventually comes out as something worth releasing is another story.
At this point, there is more stuff in this model that I have built or modified than what was original.
I believe the Tail Section is pretty much free of bleeds which took some serious doing.
The canopy frame has had some serious modifications though the general shape and dimensions have not changed very much.
It is now textured with minimal bleeds. Note also the single frame at the top rear that replaces the earlier construction.
The spinner and extreme nose section are significantly modified. The spinner is actually 0.20 feet lower and significantly longer and wider.
The spinner is now textured and the the opening is unaffected by the texturing.
The entire fuselage behind the cockpit is rebuild with the exception of Stabilisers, the forward part of the fin. The two tailplane struts are the same dimensions but moved about 0.90 feet aft and are now separate top and bottom facing polygons.
The rudder has also been significantly reshaped in both profile and cross section.
I checked all the longitudinal locations and adjusted many of them but didn't check the vertical dimensions.
That is the current status.
I have thought about redoing the wings and landing gear, but at that point, there would be nearly nothing left of the original model.
It is a pull between fixing things I don't like and putting a lot more work into something that really isn't mine.
Regarding building the Me 109A and the rest of the line:
Although the designation remained the same, I am not convinced the 109E and earlier have much relationship to the 109F and later.
I have never been all that interested in the 109E though the amount of time spent on this model may mean that I end up doing my own version at some point because I have worked out most of the construction and assembly details even if the dimensions are not entirely correct.
Some of the techniques are transferable to the later 109 which is why I still experiment a bit.
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- Ivan.
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