BF-109E4-B Stab III_JG27 WNr765, Kozani Greece 1941

[major_setback]

Originally Posted by checkmysix

Hi major_setback
the two yellow rectangles on either side of the white circle are the area
around the Machine Guns muzzle of the Guns mounted into the Engine Cowling.
To find how all the different panels meet and where they are situated use
"Panel Finder" this uses numbers set into a multi coloured grid that overlays the aircraft making it a lot easier to find key points on a skin.
Hope that helps
Regards
Keith

Yes, I know the Panel Finder layer. It's very useful. Though sometimes I could do with a more refined way of finding parts. The Bf 108 has a circular air intake/pitot (on the side of the engine) which is made up of 3 small parts which are all located on different parts of the skin. Each is too small to read the number on the Panel Finder layer, and so they are very difficult to locate. The same goes for the small hold-handles on the Bf 108's top. They are virtually impossible to locate (and actually I think each one consists of several smaller parts). On the last skin I did I just forgot where the handle was located (I had found it when doing the desert 'Einak' scheme, and then forgot it), and left the handle as it was. I just couldn't find it anywhere on the skin.

I hope someone comes up with a way where you immediately can see where a part is located. It wouldn't be too difficult. You could incorporate the colours missing on the present panel finder: grey, brown, black, and instead of a number on each square have a symbol (circle, square, triangle) in the middle of each square in a different colour. Then each square would be immediately locatable, instead of how it is with panel finder where you can be looking among all 'purple/mauve/lilac/magenta' coloured squares to find a part.

Cheers.
major-setback