KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 Yay, finally home. My first finished model I present here so far. Not bad for the amount of noise I make in here... Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 The kit is the usual suspect from Hasegawa (not knowing Revell was to rebox it soon :angry: ), EE cockpit, Eduard seatbelt (you may go crazy fiddling them together, but you just can't beat the look of their prepainted belts!), EE spinner, MDC tailwheel, decals are by Eagle Strike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 Markings are for the Hans-Dieter Bernhard's aircraft of II./JG 53, bellylanded on 19th April 1945 near Kaufbeuren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 Admitingly, I don't know if the colour combination is really correct. The instructions on the decal sheet suggested, it could be RLM 75/76/82, but other souces say 75/76/77. Well, I had RLM 82 in the house, and no 77 easily available. Feel free to prove me wrong... (Is that noise I hear an ambulance rushing to some IPMS 'experts' home? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 Errm... ...please ignore that cardboard box I used as table... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 ...yet one from above... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcauchi Posted July 6, 2007 Share Posted July 6, 2007 Beautiful paintwork, never enough 109's it is such a great plane. I envy you guys who have already finished yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 Closing in... colours used were Gunze for the camo, Tamiya for the yellow cowling, RLM 70? 71?? propblades and RLM 2 parts, Revell acrylics for the fuselage band and to mix the base colours for the shading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 Engine cover from the left... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 ...and from the right... I used Testors Metalizer as base coat on the prop blades, layed the colour in question over it and chipped it with a toothpick. Still need to improve this technique a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 The rear end. I used a .25 mm nylon hobby line for the antenna wire, the springs are lenghts of .25 mm copper wire wound around a .4 mm wire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 The office. I arranged the left shoulder belt to hang out of the cockpit, to bring a little life into the cockpit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 From above... ...need to impove my paint chipping on the wing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 ...and the 'pit from the right. The aircraft received new tactical markings somewhere throughout its life and had the old painted over. I assumed that a proper service stenciling was less of a concern that late in the war, so the fuel triangles are partly overpainted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KOTR Posted July 6, 2007 Author Share Posted July 6, 2007 ...the underside... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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