Hardcore
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Not judging the model - just the box art…. which is a bit wonky.
Box art is an important factor - how many Hasegawa kits are sold because of Koike Shigeo's artwork…. or Airifix kits inspired by the wonderful work of Roy Cross….?
I may order a poster from Hobbylink Japan. That with the K's and crimson sky.
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Anyone else that think the box cover art of the 109 looks wrong? That mess got a strange nose imo.
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It's like using spiderweb:p How am I supposed to drill holes and glue it place?
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I forgot!
Messerschmitt 209 v5/v6
Messerschmitt 309
Messerschmitt 609
and the
Messerschmitt 109 zwilling, of course.
Prototypes and paper projects, but what the heck! And the me 209 v5/v6 really is foremost on the list.
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Delta twins for Jets:
The Mirage III have some beautiful color schemes
. I am thinking especially of the bare aluminium french machines, and those in Israeli camouflage.Options and aftermarket sets would make it easy to make variants, especially those heavily modified SAAF aircrafts.
Then there is the Saab Draken which was quite exotic and exported to several nations, unlike Viggen.
Shelf space would be less of a problem for these Deltas, than for Liberators
Props then: Dornier 217 night-fighter and missile carrier, perhaps? Good looking and cool; It sunk Roma showing the coming rise to power of guided weapons
.But the Ju 52 is a classic.
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@LDSModeller,
The expression you were looking for is "being NINJAed". Very common and fun too!
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And here I thought everything could be found on the web...
Perhaps Plastic modeling porn then?;-)
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looking for a forum dedicated mainly to quarter scale,ie. 1/48.
Anyone who can share a link?
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Does the nose need be fixed? This review showed some error
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Yeah
Great work.
With regard to the overall RLM 76 blue 109's, have you see any of the pictures?Yeah, but I don't think I got any decals for those. I think Eaglecals got a set or two, and then maybe Owl? We'll see how many Messerschmitts I end up with
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What more to ask for? Hm... that it build itself? I think I will stay away from all those wires. Except maybe for a Siemens-Shuckert. Maybe.
Thanks for making reviews for us!
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I wouldn't mind new 1/48 scale messerschmitts by revell. The G-10 is both looking quite basic, and is not that cheap to get.
While they still are at it I figure they could do one or two.
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I have just about started modeling for real. By that I mean actually finishing what I build in a way i never got around to as a kid. I couldn't afford an airbrush back then. (I still do not own one, btw.) What instigated my present build rush was the realisation one day that I could actually do some cammo schemes using spraycans and careful masking! In the stash there was a He 177, and a Hase Bf 109 G-14, bought for "that day" when I got around to buy an AB. Suddenly that day was here!
This Messerschmitt is Hasegawas "Hartmann"'s G-14 with winter cammo. Rather than spray it white I bought a cool Eaglecals decal set on ebay. I am not sure why the subject I chose was the "White 21" but here it is anyway. First picture shows the basic colors applied. Some Tamiya tape is still sticking to nose and rudder. I used lots of Bluetak style stuff for the making soft edges to the cammo pattern.
Here is the mask for the tail. It gives a hint of the how the model was literally covered in Tak and tape!
Here we have moved on to weatheing stage. Quite heave use of a silver pen, but I do not care. (In fact my carefree attitude has been a help in the build process!)
Also, the Messy is to be used for wargaming purposes, and consequently short service life. The blotches were done using Eduard photoetch.
While I was working on the Hase 48 scale 109, Airfix decided to produce a new small one. Dirt cheap and cool I bought one as soon as saw one in the shop.
What would be the harm in a superquick build in between the sessions finishing the bigger project?
Also, the smaller and simpler the more carefree i was; As you can see there are quite some errors.
I had allready used Tamiya blue-grey as primer for the other modell, giving me the option of going all mono color if i liked. (I had just learned of the Rlm 76 painted machines Luftwaffe used for nighfighting 109's and High altitude operations. Weird. Three decades of being interested in LW stuff I heard of that only this year!)
The small airfix was a natural candidate for the this type of cammo, and the work on the normaly painted Hase continued on course.
Red landing gear looks pretty, so that was what it got.
Having bought MMPs book on Late war cammo for 109's I discovered a ton of fantastic schemes. This one in particular. (There are at least three interpretation of it's markings^^) It's a Revell kit that I bought as project no. 3.
Brown and green look so good I could eat it! At this time my club (wargames and stuff) had an AB and compressor. The green is Tamiya spraycan color while the brown is Xtralcrylics. Yummy!
It is interesting to note that there were other machines with this uncommon scheme. This suggest that, rather than the engine cover being scavenged from another machine, it was delivered painted, in greys, from the manufacturer. But then, why was the hood not painted green along with the rest of the machine at the assembly line?
It might have been a sign of bad times for the Germans, but I think aluminium underside simply look good. I have bought Alclads airframe aluminium, but this is hand painted with Tamiya silver(?).
The kit is a Revell oldie, and to make it a G-10 with long tailwheel I used a piece of a paperclip. I simply heated it and carefully pushed it into the plastic.
Lastly there is a Jagdpanter. As a kid a built a Matchbox one with a similar cammo. This time I use Airbrush, rather than a cropped brush to get the spots:) When I get around to finish it I may make a diorama.
So, this was something of a presentation of myself. A thanks perhaps for questions being answered in the the threads:)
Oh, yeah, the photos were taken by my HTC Aria. Good thing IRfan could make colour adjustments.
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OK, then I figure I will try the Vallejo primer to fill the seam; it is hair thin after all.
Thanks for your help guys!
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To be clear it is the seamline between the fuselage halves. I suppose the 500 is for larger gaps rather than the hair thin lines?
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1. Is it water based?
2. I need a quality that fill the thin line under the bf 109 nose. 1000 or 1200?
3. If not water based, any experience with Mr Surfacer spray cans?
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Thanks a lot! Yeah, there is a clear difference behind the cockpit, but the Tulip could be all cammo colored considering how invisible it is. Then we have the color of the fuselage; Sky, or 76?
Ouch, the madness!
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Clever! Still leaves me with an Mono-green black four, however. I haven't found any photo on web either. Then there is the Rlm 82/83 Eduard Fw 190 D waiting in the stash.
It doesn't bother me really; when I started building again the good feeling of being creative turned up. This is an art form really; the model is your canvas and you have your idea of what you want to do. I will make a Mono-green black 4 when the package from Japan turn up. I like the combination of green and Tamiya Sky.
However... I am really curious how the author of the above mentioned book come to those conclusions. They are no mere typos nor sloppy research. He has had a long list of reference material (helpfully listed on the last page) .
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One reason to travel to the Med is to see the wonderfully blue sea. That the LW researched a new color for that theater make sense to me; gray greens would work better in North sea and the Atlantic.
While it doesn't make more sense of the German color system we get more fun cammo schemes! A blueish ju 188 would be nice. But wait, I already got 12 kits to finish. Darn.
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FalkeEins blog says this in their review "As I mentioned, one or two of his colour choices will raise eyebrows, for example the well-known 'Green 7' of JG 300 (P73) has here become a III./JG 6 machine - 'because JG 300 were never based in Prague' - when we know that the rump of this unit was indeed in Prague, thanks to the accounts in Lorant and Goyat's JG 300 history quoted in this volume's bibliography."
This seems such a glaring error that I wonder if the author of the book know something others don't! I have considered mailing the company and ask but haven't got a around to it yet:)
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I have an Hase Bf 109K-4 on the way from Hobbylink Japan, and then there is the new revell G-10 in January.
They should be great builds!
Problem is the cammo schemes. As usual there are as many variations as there are sources. The aircrafts I am going to build are well known, so no doubt i can get some good opinion here.
For the K-4 I think the red tulip adorned "Black 4" look nice. I have one in 48 scale that I am finishing according to MMPs book "BF 109 LATE VERSIONS. Camouflage
& Markings". The author describe it having single colored (Rlm 82) top fuselage and wings! I figure the more recent publication the better the information. At least for something focused on a specific subject.
Other, older, sources like Eaglecals suggest Rlm 74/75 top from what it appears. That is quite different, isn't it?
Then we got the (almost) mono green G-10 "Yellow 7" from outside prague.
Or maybe it's Red 7. The Reich Defense bands are shown as red-white-red in the book but on an Aeromaster sheet they are blue-white-blue.
I would have provided more info but the book is at home, and I am not;/
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Not only cloudy canopies, it improve clear ones too! And thirdly it let you redo bad paint jobs simply by dissolving the Polish. The paint, which is on top of Polish, will be washed away in the process.
Btw, alcohol seems to work as Polish remover. At least for Johnsons.
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I figure he is asking about the Revell machinem. Being a modern kit, and such big scale, I am pretty sure the answer is yes.
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Do the Revell (Hasegawa) Bf 109 K-4 share the same shortcomings as the Hase G-6? I am thinking of what would be my first real 1/32 build and don't want a kit with obvious errors.
(I like the scheme on one JG 52 plane that has the red tulip nose and RLM 82 top and RLM 84 sides.)
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Oob then. At that scale there won't be much stuff in the aftermarket. Like new tracks...