1/48 Bf-109FCorrected late style prop and spinner

product # CEC48357

$5.99 from Meteor Productions

Review by Steve Bamford on Apr 24 2003

This new resin set from Cutting Edge Modelworks is for the Hasegawa Bf-109F.  The set includes 3 propeller blades and the spinner hub.  The blades will need to be cut from the casting blocks but this is east to do with a razor saw.  The spinner hub will also need a tiny bit of time to remove it from it's resin casting block.  

The parts are beautifully and flawlessly cast in the standard gray resin as all resin detail items from Cutting Edge Modelworks.  The blades themselves are ultra thin and have that 3 dimensional curve to them that is very hard to describe, but very badly needed when you are building a 3 dimensional model of this famous Luftwaffe fighter.  There is no indication of how to install the blades into the spinner hub to get the correct pitch, but this can easily be figured out by referring to the kit prop.  This ability to adjust the pitch of the blade also permits the more creative modeller to steam the blades and install them for a belly landed Bf-109 in a diorama.

A very nice product and well recommended.

Photos and text © 2003 by Steve Bamford