[1/32 Revell Bf109G-6/AS Hohenjager]

Hey John, great to be catching up with your work again - fantastic as always.

 

Cheers, Kirby

[Matchbox 1/32 Bf109E-3 Resurrection]

Greetings all, this is my first post here. I'm afraid I've been off the modelling bench for almost 2 years now due to the unwelcome intrusion of work into my spare time, a situation I've decided needs to change! What has bumped me out of my modelling inertia is that a friend has given me an old kit to build which was left to him by a housemate way back when and has been sitting in storage for however many decades. The kit is the venerable old Matchbox 1/32 Bf109E-3 first produced in 1977. Here's the tattered old box I was given.

 

 

When I first opened it I was confronted with an array of partially built and painted sub-assemblies and parts. An audit of the parts indicated that, amazingly, everything seemed to be there.

 

The sprues came in several different colours and, interestingly, from my initial faffing around the different coloured plastics seem to have different properties. For example, the black pastic seems to be harder and more brittle than the rest. Don't know what Matchbox's logic was here...

 

 

The build instructions were covered in paint but still legible, however the painting and decalling instructions were missing. The decals look pretty old and not up to much and I don't really like any of the supplied schemes, so I'm going to go with another scheme anyway.

 

A piece of 40 year old history in my hand, from a simpler time...


 

I'll be back shortly with my thoughts on how I'll proceed with this build...