James Rademaker Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Mike, First it great to hear that your eye got better. I also had blood in one eye a few years ago due to high BP. That has been corrected and it never happened again. Very impressed with your build. I have a question regarding 109’s. What is the difference between a ME-109 ( early version, like a E) and a CE-109D? Looking forward to more pictures. Jim MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles87 Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Like the colours. It looks like you're eventually beating it into submission. John MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted December 16, 2020 Author Share Posted December 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Biggles87 said: Like the colours. It looks like you're eventually beating it into submission. John Hey John , I think 'it's beating 'me' into submission. 8 hours ago, James Rademaker said: Mike, First it great to hear that your eye got better. I also had blood in one eye a few years ago due to high BP. That has been corrected and it never happened again. Very impressed with your build. I have a question regarding 109’s. What is the difference between a ME-109 ( early version, like a E) and a CE-109D? Looking forward to more pictures. Jim Thanks Jim , my eye is better but still not back to normal. It's like there's a sheet of white silk in front of my eye. Other eye's fine. The CE just stands for Cuttting Edge, the name of the now defunct company that marketed the D resin conversion. The differences between the D and E series are mainly just that , the nose from the firewall forward and the underwing radiators. Thanks again , stay tuned . Derek B, Gazzas and R Palimaka 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 I think that the pirate look suits you Mike! lol (I hope that you recover soon). You are doing a really good job with your 109 Mike, and as I also have the same conversion set, I have been following your thread with interest (I am not particularly a Luftwaffe fan as such, but I do fancy making mine as a night fighter variant of some kind eventually). Cheers Derek MikeMaben and Paul in Napier 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted December 16, 2020 Author Share Posted December 16, 2020 Hey Derek , thanks , yeah not many D's saw combat but they were still being built when the E series started. That one in the foreground is a late one as it has the E style exhaust that a few had. When you start yours, don't hesitate to drop me a line if you have any questions. Shiba and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Lund Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Looks great. I used the AlleyCat conversion to do a B and a D version using Eduard kits as a starting point. Actually easier to put the resin nose on than to build the Eduard nose... so very very nice coversions. I have no experience with the CE... Derek B and MikeMaben 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartmann52 Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 7 hours ago, Derek B said: I think that the pirate look suits you Mike! lol (I hope that you recover soon). You are doing a really good job with your 109 Mike, and as I also have the same conversion set, I have been following your thread with interest (I am not particularly a Luftwaffe fan as such, but I do fancy making mine as a night fighter variant of some kind eventually). Cheers Derek (Nacht)/JG-26 Staffel Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted December 18, 2020 Author Share Posted December 18, 2020 On 12/16/2020 at 3:48 AM, Thomas Lund said: Looks great. I used the AlleyCat conversion to do a B and a D version using Eduard kits as a starting point. Actually easier to put the resin nose on than to build the Eduard nose... so very very nice coversions. I have no experience with the CE... Thanks Thomas , yeah in retrospect I would recommend using the Eduard E-1 kit as it has the proper wing bottom without the cannon bumps. Kind of a pain filling those in on the Dragon E-3. Shiba 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 After spending some time creating the cut images for stencils (hours), I finally got some more paint on this puppy. Early in the 109s development there were quite a few changes / evolution in the size and placement of factory markings. Not fretting over total accuracy but want to get things to fit into a general time frame , late 1938ish. Next is some red , then black. Gettin' there, putputput scvrobeson, R Palimaka, Landrotten Highlander and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Looking good Mike. Something different and love the color combination going on here. MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeroen_R90S Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Looks very different in this scheme -nice work! MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Nice progress Mike, coming along very nicely and your perseverance is paying off now! Regards. Andy MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themongoose Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Markings look great. Did you go for a subtle fade between camo colors? It was hard to tell in the photo but the demarcation really drew my eye. Looking sweet MikeMaben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted January 17, 2021 Author Share Posted January 17, 2021 (edited) Yeah hey thanks guys, I tried to keep the masks up off the surface as much as possible but some areas blended better than others. I know they used masks of some sort . Edited January 17, 2021 by MikeMaben Derek B and Greg W 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 (edited) So ... a little more color, black this time, only red left. I've been spending alot of time messing with my new Cameo 4 ... nice . My main problem with stencils like Oracal Oramask is that they don't slide, which means you have to nail the position first thing or you have to pull up and start over. I am 'not' good at nailing these things at all. Also, when you pull them off the backing paper, they (mine anyway) are all static electricity and want to suck up to my fingers . So there were those two major hangups for me. To get rid of the static, I figgerd I'd dip them in water. Well that worked (of course) so I also thot if dipped them in hot water with a fair amount of dishsoap in it, they might slide a little better. So that worked too and it also made them a little more flexible. Two birds with one stone (I've never really thrown a stone at a bird ). Another thing that helped is that I finally got my right eyeball back. There was a sheath forming behind the lense replacement I had some years back and it had wrinkles in it. The Doc zapped it with a laser 25 or 30 times (no pain) so now I have my distance vision and more importantly my depth perception . So rolling on towards the finish line ... pocketa pocketa pocketa ... Edited February 8, 2021 by MikeMaben Uncarina, scvrobeson, Brett M and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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