Hi Frank and all --

The good news is a big box of kits arrived from the States today, 14 eBay wins, so I have some new bargains to drool over. The bad news is there are no 109s among this batch. The really bad news is my jury service has begun and it may be next weekend before I get any benchtime to speak of.

Mike

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Made some more progress on the K.

Put the dot wash on last night to give that rain streaked look of an aircraft stored out in the woods in all weathers, followed by a matt coat tonight.

Needs a few more coats of matt to knock that shine off, but I reckon it ought to done by the weekend.

Karl

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Currently on the bench:

Tamiya 1/48 Fw 190D-9

Looking great Karl. I can't wait to see the pinished pics.

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KJ200 wrote:

Does anyone know whether the prop blades on the K's were wood or metal? Karl

Metal, some very early 109's used wooden blades but every other version were metal.

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aka Mike, The Mikester My Website

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen

Mike, thanks for that.

I picked up the AB the other night with the intention of replicating the paint worn off the back of the blades as per most late 109s when I suddenly thought 'Were these all metal?'.

SC, I managed to find a few extra drops of Gunze Flat Clear in what I thought was an empty jar last night, so I might get get this one done this weekend after all.

Karl

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Currently on the bench:

Tamiya 1/48 Fw 190D-9

OK, my K is done!!! I added the canopy hood and antenna wire this morning. I used stretched sprue and then once glued in place a just extinguished out wooden match underneath provided enough heat to take out the slack- a technique I saw demonstrated at a IPMS chapter meeting.

I am really glad to have joined this GB because the work I saw here really pushed me to some of my best work yet. (in my mind) Thanks for the inspiration guys.

Hope you guys like her... thanks for letting me play along

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Nice build Carlos. Glad to have you here with us building. Well Done!

Hopefully we will see Karl's Karl shortly!

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OK, now to the part I enjoy, painting!  I didn't really have a good reference to work from so this is kind of speculative based on other's people's builds on the net.  The decal instructions call out a 74/75/76 scheme but every other rendition I've seen used 81/83/76 so that's what I went with, the paint is MM (76), Aeromaster (81,83) and Polly S (Italian Dark Olive Green) acrylics.  The Italian dark green was used to over-paint the the swastika and what I assume was a unit emblem on the cowl, chances are this was a plane turned over to the ANR from JG 53 or JG 77.  This color was more speculation on my part but the one (not so good) photo I have  shows a dark splotch so the Italian dark green seemed logical.  Sorry about the poor photos but this one's on it's way to club meeting then due for a coat of Future so wanted to get the pics up before I got too far along.

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aka Mike, The Mikester My Website

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. -Woody Allen

Mike, your camo job looks really superb! I especially love the fuselage mottling. I just wish the pics weren't so dark! This one is gonna look awesome when completed I am sure!

Guys, thanks for all the kind words on my Karl, aside from a few minor glitches I really enjoyed this build and am looking at which 109 in my stash to tackle next... just so many choices...

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