Bf 109F-4/Trop Rote 2
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Project inventory
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Sidewall detail comparison
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Succesful dry fit
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Rudder pedals installed
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Comparison Aires vs. Hasegawa's IP
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Headrest with PE attachments and holes drilled in IP
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PE added
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Missing trim chain added from twisted copper wire - ready for primer!
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No idea what that's for??
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Black base
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Fuel inspection added from stretched clear sprue
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RLM66 base
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blend coat and highlights added
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A little bit too bright right now, but clear coats and the rather small fuselage opening will tone it down
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Dry fit on the IP, acetate backed with white colour
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Details painted, some touch ups needed on the fuel line
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Green fabric belts vs. PE belts - what to choose?
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Chain drilling the fuel port
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After lots of scraping and sand ing: fuel port installed
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Minor modification on the Aires cockpit rear wall
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Chipping on the seat, floor and trim wheels
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Comparison Hasegawa vs. CMK
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Brake line from Hasegawa, looks toyish to me -> will be replaced
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Some panel lines and panels filled on the wings
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There's a piec of plastic for the bulged wheel well ceiling. Fit is horrible, but luckily invisible on the finished plane
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Aires seatbelts assembled, not as fiddly as expected
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Everything in place, dust pigments on the floor and seat
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Middle brown wash on the seatbelts
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IP finished
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Fuselage buttoned up and cockpit put into place
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Revi finished up, IP is a tad too low but collied with the sidewall. Should be invisible once the canopy is in place
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The only real fit issue on the Hasegawa kit
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Issue solved
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Rear compartment door added
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Drain pipes added
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Hasegawa exhausts
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Brassin exhausts
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Canopy masked - hours of fiddling!
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It's coming together
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Exhaust comparison: Hasegawa/Barracuda/Eduard
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Hasegawa wingtip light
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Inserted clear sprue
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Brake line added
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Barrcuda exhausts with heat shield from styrene
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Port exhausts with thinned heat shield
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And primed
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Little ghost seam on starboard
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Still work to do on the port side
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Black base
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Almost forgot the stiffener plates
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Bad reaction from the Alclad filler and the black base -> sanding
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Not much effort on the wheel wells
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The ejector pins won't be seen, tried to keep the RLM02 translucent
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White marble coat on the spinner and all the other withe parts, white and yellow for the cowl
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Maybe a tad to much colour on the fuselage band, the colour variation isn't wuite visible in the picture
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Maybe a little bit better on the underside
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Underside camo: RLM76, don't like the Gunze shade, it's almost RLM65ish, 10% light grey didi the trick
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Marble coat
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Blend coat on
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Lots of contrast here!
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RLM79 marble coat applied
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I kept it quite heavy on the sides because the RLM80 mottle will add a lot of contrast
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Not sure on the upper wing mottle - Eagle cal suggest early JG27 style blotches. The original looks more like a mottle.
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RLM79 is on!
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I kept it quite thin to have more contrast when the green is added
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Same for the wings, just the wing root collected too much paint but there will be the exhaust stain, so I don't mind
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First test cut with Tamiya masking sheet - looks promising!
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Unfortunately the crosses came out 2mm too big, despite the correct size in the cutting program
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New masks cut from Oramakask 810
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masked up for the white
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White marble with off white blend coat
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The final result - not too bad for a first try
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White and red + white marble for insignia/codes
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All painted and ready for mottling
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Start on the camouflage
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right hand side painted, repairs on the insignia are necessary
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wing camo
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I'll call it: the glamour shot
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Putting on the stencils
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Mr. Mark softer ate right through two of the Hasegawa decals -> sanding and repainting..
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Salt fading - salt grinded over the wet surface
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the result with a light grey on the horizontal surfaces
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and in close up
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preparation for oil dot filtering
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dots placed
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working the colours into the surface, blended right afterwards with thinner
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filter on the left wing vs. previous state on the right wing
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underside washing in place; kept it quite subtle
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the upper surfaces as well - I went with a dark brown with some raw umber in it
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and that's how it looks from a normal vieweing distance
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flat black on the Master MG17 barrels, prepraing for the metal look
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quick spyshot from the bench with the flat coat on
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small stuff for the antenna wire
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everything in place with the antenna line from Uschi
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and here it's in fnished state
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stretched sprue as a light bulb
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Master MG17 barrels - painted flat black, metallic effect applied with lead
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gun stains
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exhaust stains - highly thinned black, followed by dark brown and greyish brown
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canopy holder
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and put into place
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Comments
4 17 February 2019, 15:12
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Thanks! It might take some time - at least until my 1/48 109 is finished - to get started
18 February 2019, 10:30
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Very nice progress.The streched clear sprue (great idea), the chain, the acetate (the white behind is not painted is it?) Lot's of detail 👍 Looking great.
28 February 2019, 15:39
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The white is painted but only to pop out the printed detail (in black)
28 February 2019, 18:44
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But It is such an incredible small detail? They look like decal or stencil...
28 February 2019, 23:13
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It's a little bit hard to describe. There's a good photo in this review of the Aires Ki-84 cockpit:
largescaleplanes.com../review.php?rid=1672
3 March 2019, 07:09
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Thanks guys - it'll take some days to get the upperside camo done. A little hand injury is making the mottling a real pain.
31 March 2019, 17:38
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Thanks mates!
@Holger: No - I did cut the masks with a Silhouette Portrait plotter - at least I tried!
10 April 2019, 19:05
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I just got the Cameo plotter, thinking about cutting masks on it as well. Looks like there will be challenges 😄
11 April 2019, 12:50
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I had a discussion on largescaleplanes on this and one problem is the Tamiya sheet. It's just too tacky - I ordered Oramask 810 and will do another mask set with this material. It's supposed to be close to the vinyl of the montex masks
11 April 2019, 16:43
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Very nice, all the masking efforts on the markings really paid off IMO - looks great & very realistic!
2 July 2019, 17:48
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Was going to say I'm not normally into too much AM but you have really done a splendid job. I just went through the whole lot of photos and pondered over each one! I felt like I've just watched a 2 hour scale model video - learnt so much! Excellent!🫡
19 February, 22:19