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Revell 1/32 Bf109G-10 Erla


Thunnus

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I'd go with RLM 76 painted undersides.

Partially unpainted wing undersides are photographically documented throughout the G-10 series - Erla, WNF/Diana and Messerschmitt.

 

Only one example of partially painted underwing surfaces - Erla Bf 109G-10, W.Nr.491407, A.N.R.

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If you feel better with RLM 76, go for it!

Due to the lack of photographs of the undersides of Hartmann's mount, speculation/RLM 76 is your friend.

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Thanks for the helpful comments.  I guess RLM 76 undersides is a good choice.  I'll probably go with that.  Getting closer to painting as I add the final details to the cockpit before closing it up.  I've added the little lights on the forward cockpit walls.  I lost the resin pieces to the carpet monster.  I cut off the lights from the kit cockpit sidewalls since they weren't used and proceeded to lose one of those as well.  I fashioned one out of a 1/48 machine gun barrel.  Futzing with those lights also knocked out the optical glass from the Revi sight so I had to cut some new ones from clear acetate.  Can't see it well but I painted the edges of the rear glass a clear blue/green.

 

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The clear canopy parts can now be glued into place.  I've also attached the horizontal stabs and wing ailerons.  Those middle flaperons are just snapped into place for now.

 

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One the bottom, the center panels including the ammo chute openings have been glued into place.

 

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I'll have to do some minor fill work on that bottom panel area as well as the windscreen and canopy.  But I'm that much closer to painting!

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Upon looking at the close-up pics of the exhausts, I wasn't quite happy with the results, so I decided to do a little more work on them.  I resprayed them with Duraluminum but sprayed lightly so that it did not cover the previous work entirely.  I thought this might create a little more depth.

 

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The exhausts were given a re-mist of Exhaust Manifold.

 

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And again, the bases were sprayed with a darker metallic color.

 

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The dry-dabbing of the rusty color was performed more carefully this time, making sure that my splotches were not as big.

 

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Finally, the tips of the pipes were highlighted with black.

 

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A test fit onto the fuselage to see how the painted exhausts look.

 

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I hope the LSP community is having a wonderful holiday season!

 

The Erla G-10 build continues although the busy holidays are keeping many of us from spending too much time on the workbench, including me!  I've put a coat of primer (Mr Surfacer 1000 thinned with Tamiya Lacquer Thinner) on the G-10 prior to starting the painting. As usual, the primer revealed a lot of little errors that need correction before I start painting so I've been addressing those.

 

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I don't always primer the entire model before painting but on my last build, I experienced some paint lifting during the masking of the markings and I wanted to avoid that here.  One thing I didn't like about the primer coat is that it seemed to be burying the rivet detail little by little.  I backed off on the application of the primer so that's why it looks a bit splotchy.  I've decided to carefully re-do the rivets which is taking a lot of time.  It's a pain trying to wheel the Rivet-R exactly over the existing holes.

 

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So I'm inching towards the paint stage of this build.  Hopefully, I'll be able to get some paint on within the next few days.

 

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