Relic Plywood pieces from a BF-109 G10

[Antonio Argudo]

Hi everyone, wanted to share these pictures from a polywood tail pieces  from a   Me109 G10/U4 W. Nr. 611008  that I recently acquired. it  crashed near Schoenberg due to flak fire,  they  are in great condition and show RLM 74/75/76. 

 

Edited August 10, 2019 by Antonio Argudo

[Antonio Argudo]

here are some examples of other polywood 109 examples, they also show that  distinctive green protective undercoat paint and dark magenta stains, I'm guessing it is the glue used

 

 

Edited August 7, 2019 by Antonio Argudo

[RBrown]

Very cool..thanks for posting!

[Antonio Argudo]

it's my honor mate, cheers

[Troy Molitor]

Agreed.  Thanks for sharing this.   I like the soft edge mottling in the period photos or the Lux picture in particular. You never see this on remanufactured Luftwaffe birds these days.  

[Guest Vincent]

The anti fungal coating could be bright yellow as well depending on the batch. As its hue code was 99, it could be any color

[Gazzas]

Great pics!!

[Out2gtcha]

Wow, that's pretty unique!  Definitely something you dont see every day.

[Antonio Argudo]

8 hours ago, Troy Molitor said:

Agreed.  Thanks for sharing this.   I like the soft edge mottling in the period photos or the Lux picture in particular. You never see this on remanufactured Luftwaffe birds these days.  

yes mate,  the mottling was  applied quite fast and superficial and with a gesture movement,  as you said modern reproductions fail on this, using masks or oversaturating the paint over the mottling.

cheers

[Antonio Argudo]

6 hours ago, Vincent/MDC said:

The anti fungal coating could be bright yellow as well depending on the batch. As its hue code was 99, it could be any color

Thanks Vincent, I didn't know it was an antifungal, I guess it is the same type like the yellow/green one used in the radio wood panel as well.

 

cheers

[Antonio Argudo]

I  did a dissection  of a paint piece which fleaked apart, I used a scalp to go through the different layers starting from the bottom one, what I found was:

the first layer on to the wood was the green antifungal,  as I continued scrapping  a thin metallic layer appeared, I have no clue what it was but was very supercicial, then a grey layer shown, very thick, it remind me of squadron putty texture, there was a lot of it, next another thin layer of the metallic paint, this was the last before the superficial paint layer, at this point it was so thin that it started to break which also demonstrates that the top coat color paint was super thin itself.

cheers

 

[D.B. Andrus]

Excellent, Antonio!  Thanks very much for posting the photos.

 

Cheers,

 

D.B.

[Antonio Argudo]

1 minute ago, D.B. Andrus said:

Excellent, Antonio!  Thanks very much for posting the photos.

 

Cheers,

 

D.B.

no problem mate, my pleasure

cheers

[Antonio Argudo]

So,  these relics are prove  of my suspicions about the RLM 74 color (called Dark grey and also Grey Green)  being on the dark blue side  with almost nothing of green from what paint and model makers companies  are normally rendering, more and more relics are coming to the surface everyday that show this, these are some examples as well , cheers

 

[Antonio Argudo]

7 minutes ago, Jennings Heilig said:

It would take me literally five seconds in Photoshop to prove your suspicion wrong, and that the VOLUMES of factual evidence on the color of RLM 74 being a grey green and not in any way blue are in fact correct.  Those photos are all over the map in terms of color.

well you can photoshop any picture but you can't photoshop the relic I have in my hands and I can tell you in the flesh it does not look any green at all,  my relics have no corrosion or rust been wood have preserved so well than metal relics,  where is all that Volumes of factual evidence that you mention?

cheers