Hasegawa 1/32nd Bf 109F-4 Completed pics Page 3.

Coming along nicely. The weathering is super!!

BK

Another short update.I got the decals on the other day. After i finished those, i realise dthat i really should have done some fading with the airbrush. This is the first time i have done a desert aircraft since i started serious weatheirng and in 72nd scale i would have done this with dry brushing. But with this larger scale, the fading would have been better with the air brush. So one lesson i have lkearmnt is to treat 32nd aircraft similar to 35th armour rather than smaller scale aircraft. I had also starte dthe exhaust staining when i took these.

And then some weathering. I was originally going to go for the lighter touch. But i found some info that this aircrfat was older than i had thought. Apparently it had crashed earlier in the year and then repaired before Marseille got hold of her.

For the weathering i used Flory Wash dark dirt top and bottom and then dry brushed the top.

One point on the Flory Wash. You can see that the bottom is cleane rthan the top.Despite the top getting a future coat is was less glss than the top. The flory wash sticks more to the flatter finish but just slids off the gloss. It can be removed from the flat finsih, but it does take some work, but its really hard to keep in on the gloss. So if you wnat a clener finish with it just in the panel lines,its best applied to glss. If you want a more grubby look, use it on a flat surface.

I'll do a little more to the underside once the flat clear coat is applied, hopefuly tomorrow.

I posted this in the 109 GB last night. Plasticjunkie then suggested a yellow orche filter to help with fading. Again, i should have thought of this from armour building. So tonight i have given it 2 coats of flat acrylic clear to protect the paint from the oil wash. I am going to go easy with that as the dry brushing has left a good effect and i don't want to over due it. So more soon.

Thnaks for looking, all comments welcome of course.

allan

Paint went on quite nicely. Can't wait for the decals and wash pics.

 

Toshi's getting ready for you with his 32nd Spit.

 

 

 

Thanks allan. Decals are just about done, and my 109 will be ready and waiting for his Spit.

plasticjunkie

Looking good Bish. The scheme looks very cool. 

When spraying gloss paints, I find that if you thin them a tad more than normal, they spray much better and that glass finish is easier to capture. This comes in very handy when dealing with priming for an Alclad finish. I'm no fan of acrylics and favor enamels and lacquers hands down.

 

Ye, i think i need to pay more attention to my mix. You would think after all these yerasi would have figured that out by now.

BrandonK

You clearly have had no issues with stepping up scale so dramatically. Nice work, BIsh. Im loving it.

 

BK

 

Thanks BK. One would think that building an aircrfat in any scale would be just the same, but i have learnt its not. Its been about 30 years since i built an aircrfat bigger than 1/72nd, and i have certainly learnt a few things.

Paint went on quite nicely. Can't wait for the decals and wash pics.

Toshi's getting ready for you with his 32nd Spit.

Looking good Bish. The scheme looks very cool. 

When spraying gloss paints, I find that if you thin them a tad more than normal, they spray much better and that glass finish is easier to capture. This comes in very handy when dealing with priming for an Alclad finish. I'm no fan of acrylics and favor enamels and lacquers hands down.

You clearly have had no issues with stepping up scale so dramatically. Nice work, BIsh. Im loving it.

BK

Bish - this thing is coming out amazingly well. As for the PE canopy - I just can't... I'm too clumsy and would foul it all up.

I can't wait to see more of this as you get the decals on.

-BD-

Thanks Bish. I just may switch over. Sprue Bros has a small selection here in the States.

Ye, most of the Xtracolour range is gloss, that's one reason why I like them.

The onlycolour tehre that isn't Xtracolour is the white, i used Humbrol glos for that.

Bish

Are those colors gloss straight from the bottle? 

A short update before the decals go on. Despite useing Xtracolour RLM 79,which is glss,i still had to give the top a coat of future.

Really like the way you managd the Pilots Office.
The canopy works look intreaguing but looks like you managed that very well.
Happy that you are posting in this section as well and not only in th GB one, I find great inspiration in your work!

Zack

Wow Bish, not sure how I missed this but it looks amazing.  I can't believe how intricate that canopy looks.  I don't know if I'd be able to go through with trying to get it to look right.  Amazing job.

I'm digging that 109, great work.

I was shaking my head just looking at that PE canopy frame assembly.  This is probably one of the reasons why I love modern jets, especially the F-16. LOL.

Well, after the struggle with the yellow, i finally got it sorted, with a good lesson learned in the process, and got some paint on this bird. But first of all the canopy. I got the main piece put together, its not all that neat as its very thin PE which i found awkward to bend, especially on the inside pieces. Overall, while these PE canopy's are nice, i am not sure they are worth the effort given how thin and well detaile dthe kit one is and any shortcomings are dealt with by the Eduard PE set. But i do have the one for the G, so maybe i might change my mind after that.

Once dried i got those areas masked up and the underside painted. I did that yesterday and today its touch dry, but i will leave it until tomorrow before masking and painting the top. But it does mean i can un mask the wheel wells and fit her legs on.

I also got the figure put together and primed. I know, black figure on a black base, not the best way to take a pic.

And finally a pic of the tail wheel. The decals include a white one for the sides of the wheel. But one pic i saw showed the white well worn, which i gues would not take long in the desert. So i painted the wheel NATO Black. Then i did the white useing Tamiya flat white but not properly mixed. Finally i used the NATO black again, this time with out stiring, and went over the white.

I still have to paint the strut of it RLM 02.

And thats all for now folks.

Bish

Marc, good to see you, I was thinking we had lost you for a while.

Ah, would that you could my friend. Im like a bad smel.  Ya never quite get rid of me

This is really coming along nicely. It's great to see you build it, since I have a few 1/32 German planes, and I am just making the jump from 1/48, so I feel like I can definitely learn from this post.

-BD-