Greif8 Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 (edited) It has been a few months since I posted any builds. I have been focused on road cycling for the past several months but I have built some kits during the spring and summer months; I just have not photographed them until now. First up is Hasegawa's BF109 F4 built to replicate an aircraft flown by Hans-Joachim Marseille circa mid-June 1942. Marseille was one of the most successful German fighter pilots; flying exclusively over Western Europe or in North Africa he was credited with 158 victories in 382 combat missions before his death. Modern historians and researchers generally agree that his claims are 65-70% accurate, making his actual total closer to 105-111 victories (depending on which records you want to believe). Marseille was born in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg in 1919. His early career as a pilot was marked by a fair degree of ill-discipline and he was not very successful or popular, with either fellow pilots or his leaders. He was transferred out of two different Jagdgeschwader (JG) for disciplinary reasons being assigned to JG27. Though still more than a little free spirited, Marseille came into his own while assigned to this unit. He flew with JG27 for the remainder of his career becoming known as Der Stern von Afrika (The Star of Africa) after he had achieved around 75 victories. His career, and life, would come to an end on 30 September 1942, returning from a mission his engine began smoking heavily and he was forced to bail out. His plane had entered a dive and he struck the vertical stabiliser being either killed instantly or rendered unconscious falling to his death. His final reasting place is in the Schöneberg district of Berlin. I took the photos under some fairly harsh direct lighting to try to replicate the desert sun. In a departure from the norm for me, used Lifecolor acrylics to airbrush the colors, mainly just to see if I could get them to spray well. I faded the paint fairly extensively as I thought the harsh desert sun would have done that on the actual aircraft. Edited November 2, 2022 by Greif8 Cheetah11, Anthony in NZ, rafju and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 (edited) Some more shots. Edited October 30, 2022 by Greif8 Hartmann352, rafju, Stokey Pete and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafju Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Hi Congrats! absolutely beautiful model! got a question: With the indicated period (mid june 1942) and after reading at the book from Air Power editions, I found at the n°16 aircraft (WNr. 10137) of H-J Marseille and the illustration are not given a red rudder, what do you think about? Greif8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted October 30, 2022 Author Share Posted October 30, 2022 1 minute ago, rafju said: Hi Congrats! absolutely beautiful model! got a question: With the indicated period (mid june 1942) and after reading at the book from Air Power editions, I found at the n°16 aircraft (WNr. 10137) of H-J Marseille and the illustration are not given a red rudder, what do you think about? Thank you for the nice compliment Rafju. I don't have the Air Power book, but there is some debate about the rudder color of Marseille's aircraft at this time. I don't have exhaustive sources for this particulair topic and to be honest, as there are some conflicting opinions about the color of the rudder, I just flipped a mental coin and went with the "primer" red. Ernest rafju and Isar 30/07 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Nice work Ernest, figure looks great too ivanmoe, Greif8 and rafju 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Ernest, great job! Love the fading effects! The figure looks great, too. Greif8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted October 30, 2022 Share Posted October 30, 2022 Lovely work! Greif8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncarina Posted October 31, 2022 Share Posted October 31, 2022 I’ve always liked your capture of a moment of history Ernest by combining figures with great models, and this is no exception! I also really like the historical background you share. Cheers, Tom Greif8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 On 10/30/2022 at 8:28 AM, MikeMaben said: Nice work Ernest, figure looks great too Thank you Mike! Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 17 hours ago, MARU5137 said: Ernest, GORGEOUS looking model and lovely work on the figure too. Your depiction of the heat of the sun turned out perfectly. STUNNING. Bravo.... Thank you for the kind words MARU! Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 10 hours ago, Gazzas said: Ernest, great job! Love the fading effects! The figure looks great, too. Thank you Gary! I was actually a bit concerned that I had overdone the fading effects. The figure is about a B+ effort for me, (I think I could have gotten the eyes a bit better.) Ernest Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 8 hours ago, Out2gtcha said: Lovely work! Thank you Brian! If I can get the quality of my work 75% of your's I will call that a win. Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted October 31, 2022 Author Share Posted October 31, 2022 3 hours ago, Uncarina said: I’ve always liked your capture of a moment of history Ernest by combining figures with great models, and this is no exception! I also really like the historical background you share. Cheers, Tom Thank you for the kind words Tom! I enjoy telling a story with my builds. Like some (most?) of us, I like to research my build subjects. As a military historian I have a deep interest in the things a choose to build and depict - and living in Germany - gives me access to primary source material in archives that allows me to deep dive sometimes. Ernest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Barry Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Wonderful! I love the NA Bfs. I did one in 1:48. Greif8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Bettencourt Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 I dig that!! Thanks for sharing. Rod Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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