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Hi gents,
After a loooong journey with the Mustang, my second 1/32 bird which I will soon begin work on is Hasegawa's Bf109F-4 flown by Hans-Joachim Marseille in Africa in 1942.
I will build it mostly OOB with Eduard seatbelts. If I have time and energy I hope to do some scratch building for the cockpit as well but we'll see.
The kit includes a figure of Marseille so I will give that a shot too. See how it goes.
I am still not sure which markings I will do but probably the ones on the box art with the red rudder. I like the red rudder and also the white wing tips but unfortunately they can't go together.
Best,
Nikola
www.shelfforce.com
Wow,surprised this post has been ignored after so many looks.Should be a great project,he's one of my favorite pilots,for a great read,see his story in The Star of Africa.
Looking forward to watching this one.
I think that AMS is slowly creeping on me.
I have cut out the gray plastic portion of the fuel pipe and replaced it with a clear part which I made by stretching part of the clear sprue to make it to scale. In the real thing this was transparent to make it possible for the pilot to be sure that there is fuel supply to the engine.
I also made some simple foot straps for the spare PE frame cut to scale.
Nothing that special and far from perfect, but new for me. And fun too.
Tojo72 Wow,surprised this post has been ignored after so many looks.Should be a great project,he's one of my favorite pilots,for a great read,see his story in The Star of Africa. Looking forward to watching this one.
Bill
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Excellent work! This will be great build to follow. So much for "OOB"!
In the queue: 1/48 Beech Staggerwing (RAAF), P38 (RAAF), Vultee Vengeance (RAAF), Spitfire Vb (Malta), Spitfire VIII x2 (RAAF), P39 x2 (RAAF), Martin Baltimore (Malta?), Martin Maryland (Malta), Typhoon NF1b, Hellcat x2 (FAA)
Chris
Well gents, since I don't have a lot of free time I thought that it would be very nice to create some more unnecessary work by mysteriously losing one of the elevator trim wheels!
So, I had to make one. It is not perfect but it will do as it will barely be seen once the cockpit is closed within the fuselage.
On the other hand, this mishap gave me a chance to hone my skills and make a more correct elevator trim wheel mechanism by making the chain from wire thus it being closer to scale than the original from the kit.
I am also sure that after I finish all this the part will somehow show up from somewhere.
The lost part (C40):
Finished wheel:
And the process:
Great subject. Star of Afrika. I have this same build on my list. Nice save on the trim wheel there.
"Can you fly this plane and land it?...Surely you can't be serious....I am serious, and don't call me Shirley"
Painted and ready for installment.
Next I will have to make the chain from a wire probably. That'll be a bit tricky, but interesting.
Trim wheels in place. It actually is more to scale than the original part as the ''chains'' are closer in scale to the ones on the fuselage wall.
And of course, I found the original part the day after fitting the scratch built one.
Sorry for bad photos.
Some progress with the office:
Some more office work:
Excuse Me, Nikola?
Whut is dat ting hangin offn da syde ob the Cowling, on da laft syde dere? It looks lika a Trash can toined sydways? Please excuse da langwidge I'b Gotta Bad Code!
Tanker-Builder, that is a tropical air filter.
Tanker-Builder Excuse Me, Nikola? Whut is dat ting hangin offn da syde ob the Cowling, on da laft syde dere? It looks lika a Trash can toined sydways? Please excuse da langwidge I'b Gotta Bad Code!
Hi TB,
Like Knox said, a tropical air filter for sand and dust.
Some slow progress with Fritz.
Hase did a very fine job with the rudder shape/offset.
Great work going on. Love the pit, it really looks good, great details.
BK
On the bench:
A lot !! And I mean A LOT!!
2024 Kits on deck / in process / completed
14 / 5 / 2
Cockpit looks great;and the photo etched radiator screen is excellent!Might have to thin the paint a bit so as not to obscure the fine detail!
Eugene Rowe Cockpit looks great;and the photo etched radiator screen is excellent!Might have to thin the paint a bit so as not to obscure the fine detail!
Hi Eugene,
Thanks! Glad you like it so far.
The radiator screen is a kit part, not PE.
Ok still looks impressive!
White primer done.
Again, I continue to experiment with my complementary pre/post-shading method.
For the blue belly, I chose to go with brown and orange, since the complementary to blue is orange. Also, brown is nothing else but a very dark orange so it fits the bill.
For the top sand yellow, which is actually some kind of orange again, I did the opposite, using blue as it's complementary.
We'll soon see what we get...
Nikola-Very impressive build-looking forward to seeing how the pre/post shading turns out!
Bob
And this is the result (as best as my phone camera can reproduce). You be the judges...
Personally, I like the subtle rich grayish tones and tonal shift which it produced. We'll see how much of this is lost to further filters, clear coats and weathering.
Decals in place.
They gave me hell because it is an old kit and they cracked while still on the carrier paper.
They tore, broke, bent and I had to patch up and hand paint parts especially on the yellow numbers.
The dashed red lines on the wings were impossible to use so I had to mask and paint.
I ended up using fuselage crosses from another kit.
The Balkenkreuz markings on the upper part on the wings are supposed to be damaged like this.
There are still some corrections to be done.
Since I didn't like how the demarcation line turned out using the masking method, I repainted it, for the first time trying out freehand painting with a 0.2 nozzle. Next time I will go with even smaller 0.15.
Anyway, here she is so far:
Hi guys,
Since I haven't posted for a while, here is a little teaser before the final reveal. :)
Still some things to finish and I hope to bring it to the end soon.
This is going to be an excellent project! Marseille was a interesting character and incredible fighter ace. Your attention to the fine details is amazing!
tjs
TJS
Making the antenna wire springs using an acupuncture needle to coil up the thinnest electrical wire.
The acupuncture needle is perfect for this as it is very thin but hard enough to provide support.
I should have done this for the canopy spring as well but it's too late now. Lesson learned. For this I used regular needle which is thicker.
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