The inner wings that are joined to the fuselage have a long strip of metal running across the width of the wing.
As you can see from these pictures, I’ve highlighted one in Red.
I have never seen this replicated on any scale model 109.
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Huh, I’ve just had a pass at some 1:24 kits. You’d expect with some more scale to play with, they would be less inclined to gloss over details like this but neither Airfix, Heller nor Bandai get this detail. I think that’s probably because that lower lapping of the aluminium skin is right at the wing root. This is a join that’s ordinarily going to get absolutely creamed by so much filling and sanding that it’s not worth detailing. Oddly they all capture the next row of riverts above…
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I’ve looked at most scales and every one is the same.
Because I’m building the Eduard 1/32 kit it’s fought me all the way with large clumps of flash on the cowling and many more fit issues.
Last night I spent almost 2 hours trying to join the wings to the fuselage and now it’s glued it has a 0.5 mm gap that needs filling and sanding.
I hate this as there’s detail like rivets right next to the join.
So I’ve just bought some styrene sheets to replicate the aluminium strip.
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What you highlighted is part of the wing to fuselage aerodynamic fairing.
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That will look great in 1/32nd. How are you going to model the rivets?
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I haven’t got any rivets small enough so I’ll have to use my blunted airbrush needle to simulate the rivets.
Or I could cut them out of a stretched sprue but getting the right size might be a task too far 
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Buy a riveting tool. You can find one for about $20.00.
I watched a guy on YouTube who uses UV resin and a homeade kind of a dropper to create his own rivets and it looked really cool. I’d probably just use a hypodermic needle to dispenser it.
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Those came out really well, Karl, I’ve never seen anyone accurately portray that piece before! I’m especially interested in the rivet detail you added to the new pieces.
How did you actually make those rivets? That’s the part of your technique I’m really curious about, because I can see myself wanting to do something similar on a future project.
They look very convincing in the photos.
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The rivets are from an old 1/35 Nashorn I had left over from my model armour days.
I could only manage 10 per side as I wanted 13, I just carefully sliced them off with a new blade and used extra thin to attach them to the strip.
Fairing strip is cut from 0.2mm styrene sheet.
Thanks for replying 
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Nicely done! Never was aware of these strips. Do they conveniently cover the wing joint?
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Yes they just cover the joins.
All E’s had these single reinforced strip fairings up till the early F’s,late F’s and G’s had a single curved panel coming down from the fuselage.
Example of a G wing root
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That’s a great old-school modeling solution. Need rivets? Find something else in the stash that has rivets and steal them. 
I really like that kind of problem solving. I’m getting more interested in scratch-building little details like this instead of assuming there has to be an aftermarket part for everything. Thanks for explaining how you did it!
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