Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3 6./JG26, 1940

Jens
👍 👍 👍 🙂

Michael Hickey
Thanks Jens, tomorrow I'll give her a clear coat of gloss.

Michael Hickey
All finished now and the cabinet is starting to get full.

Jens
Hello Michael, a really nice 109 E 👍, which I do not quite like, but is not your thing, the Decals for the Capricorn are a bit too yellow, in the original, but they were more brown / gray a little more nature-inspired, on I also know one version of this Capricorn in white, but okay, it's the decals, but as always your work is the finest 👍

Michael Hickey
Thanks Lode & Jens for the pleasant comments, and Jens I never really noticed, the only thing I saw was the out of register brown 1. Thanks for letting me know, I should start calling you Sir Luftwaffe. As you have a great deal of knowledge on the subject, Respect.👍🙂

Jens
Michael, not sir Luftwaffe, much of what is available to me to Infos, satmmt from 40 years of model making, I myself have known until about 1999 no color chart, it was mixed until it corresponds to the picture, so always wrong ...
With the Internet, I've started to look for details, and there is for each kit somewhere to find criticism, a perfect basis for the construction you do not even get from Tamiya, always a good is very good, but never perfect

Michael Hickey
Either way, you do know a lot on the subject.

Jens
Modellbau, I do not find any mistakes myself, the pros report that, but models that you once built, you do not forget, and thus the mistakes stay in the head 😉

Spanjaard
very nice 109 Michael

Michael Hickey
Jens it's the mistakes we make that help us improve with each kit.
Thanks Spanjaard. I've got another 1 or 2 that I've got to finish off as well.

Jens
let's say, the mistakes that have the basis, we should discover as eggs at Easter, correct, but is beautiful, the egg at Easter we are looking alone, the models are built by many and examined, unfortunately not always correct, but in the end we make from 1000 suggestions our unique, a model like your Bf 109 E, on which you can be very stoltz, nice little extras and a successful paint make it to beauty 👍

Michael Hickey
Thanks Jens.

Rene Scheiblich
Nice 109 Michael!

Is that a flycrap on the starboard guncover? How long did she wait for her finish? 😄

Tim Heimer
I Like it! Looks good. I have found it best to do what you like and not mind the rivet counters, because of all the different opinions that are out there. Be it colors, options and time of vehicle, ect, most of the time these are rough estimates, sometimes there's facts, but just do the best you can.

Michael Hickey
Thanks Rene & Timothy, it sat for around 20 years and that is so true Timothy.

Rene Scheiblich
20! years... wow. And only one speck... My Tomcat hung from the ceiling for about 2 and looked like every fly in the city had a dump on it. 😄

Especially right with colours Timothy. Especially for (german) wartime machinery... I guess the industry was more concerned with getting any paint produced whether it was a nuance too dark or too greenish was secondary. Only my guess 🙂

Tim Heimer
Believe it or not, doing Hollywood movie cars is just as bad! They change years, options, and colors! Sometimes they use up to 300 different cars!