This Bf109 is not virtual...

[ndicki]

I've finally finished. Two months' work, off and on.

1/32nd scale Bf109k-4 Red 7 of 10./JG 27, Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 1945. There have been a number of interpretations of this aircraft, including one in the Histoire et Collections Bf109 volume II which is utterly inaccurate as usual, but as I've found a couple of photos of the real aircraft, well, this is a bit closer! When all is said and done, it's a question of interpreting one shade of grey against the other...

Coming soon/one day/eventually - a G-10, a G-5 and an E-1. All I need now is six or eight months!

 

[phrog_phixer]

Awesome work!

 

[HouseHobbit]

Beautiful..
Your skill with building these is amazing..
BRAVO..
:salute: :salute: :salute:

 

[Old Tiger]

Beautiful..
Your skill with building these is amazing..
BRAVO..
:salute: :salute: :salute:

Ya can say that again HH, his work is a work of art:salute::salute:

 

[hairyspin]

Awfully sorry Nigel, these put your CFS3 skinning in the shade...!

 

[ndicki]

Thanks! I hope they do put my skins in the shade - 40 years of experience... They actually look better than they appear to in the photos; for some reason, photos increase the contrast of the shadowing I've done and make it appear exaggerated. In reality, it's a bit more subtle... But the techniques are much the same as for skinning.

 

[popsaka]

Really stunning!

Where did you ever come up with that shade of green on the fuselage band???

 

[Pat Pattle]

Wonderful Nigel, what a rare talent.

Got any pics of British a/c models please, don't much care for these ugly brutes!

Btw on another modelling thread was mentioned waterslide decal papers for PC printing. I got some off Ebay and it works really well. You can get clear and white backed versions. I bought a Miles Master but it came without decals so I made my own. Not showing a piccie after seeing your handywork though!

 

[huub vink]

Your models look absolutely beautiful. I love the spaying and and the way you did weathering.

Huub

 

[Led Zeppelin]

the way you did weathering.

Same for me. Not too clean, not too wheathered, just fine.

 

[ndicki]

Where did you ever come up with that shade of green on the fuselage band???

RLM 25, used by JG 27 as a Reichsverteidigung fast-recognition marking. Basically, each JG in the Reich Defence force had its own coloured band, although predictably the colours evolved with the Luftwaffe's (by this time) usual lack of organisation. JG 27 retained this green band throughout their period in Reich Defence.

This will give you the idea:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~rhorta/jgmark2.htm

The G-14 behind it is not wearing the Eastern Front band, by the way - the dimensions are wrong. It's the Reich Defence band of Jg 11. The G-2 behind that, however, IS wearing the Mediterranean Forces band - you can see the difference in width; placement though is not important.

 

[ndicki]

Got any pics of British a/c models please, don't much care for these ugly brutes!

I have a MkI Spitfire, but that is a reissue of the very old Hasegawa kit; it had new wings, which was a relief, as they had engraved panel lines. The fuselage had raised panel lines however and had to be entirely re-engraved...

The main reason why I don't have many RAF aircraft is that A. decent kits are simply not available at prices I can afford (Tamiya's Spit IX/VIII is around £100) and B. RAF aircraft are remarkably uniform, and don't give you anything like the array of possibilities the 109 does. In a late-war flight of 109Gs, you would probably not find two the same - different fittings, different painting styles, different colours and different markings. In an RAF flight, the only way to tell them apartt would be by looking at the serial number and individual letters.