Spanish Civil War GB.

Cruising right along on the decals.  I have all the main markings installed on the Bf109D.  Next up are all the stencils 

The Bird is looking real good Scott.  Now, about your photography....

Regards,  Rick

Looking good Scott   I love that shade of green.

PS: I don't think Rick approves of your kitchen towel background

razordws wrote:

PS: I don't think Rick approves of your kitchen towel background

That was the least foo foo dish towel we have, so it could have been worse. 

Thanks for the comments guys. 

Final gloss coat goes on tonight.  Oil wash tomorrow, flat coat Wed.

Just about finished!  I'm just waiting to make sure those PE wheel well covers are nice and firmly attached.  There are two PE pieces that go on each strut.  Was much easier than I expected, although we'll see how well they hold up when I attempt to attach the gear assemblies to the wheel wells. 

And the underside, with gear and the final gloss coat.  Weathering tomorrow, looks to be a bit grimy, dusty and there will be a blistering bout of hot searing sun   

Around the turn & into the home stretch .  Looking real good Scott.

Regards,  Rick

"I'm not sure which is worst, the blistering sun, the ubiquitous dust or the communists!" Anonymous Condor Legion Pilot 

I applied the dust coat this morning before work.  Panel line wash to commence this evening. 

Soon the communists will be defeated, and we can return to the Fatherland.  The Luftwaffe needs our expertise to prepare for the upcoming challenges!  (we so need a Stormtrooper smiley )

I completed the oil wash last night. I used black in the radiator grills and cooling vents, burnt umber on the rest.  Tonight I do a quick exhaust stain spray (very light, based on all the photos I've seen of Moders 6*79) and the final flat coat. 

I'll post the final pics tonight before bedtime

Nice work Scott.  Looking forward to th finished build pics.

Regards,  Rick

Well guys, here are the final pics.  When I get some time (the earliest would be Sunday) I'll do a complete write up, including areas to be aware of and some of the snags I ran into with the kit.  But I would like to at least submit a few finished photos so I can have "official" completion status for this build. 

Man did I learn a lot!  This was my first Classic Airframes kit and my first multi-media kit (styrene, resin and PE).  All I can say is dry fit, dry fit, dry fit.  This is kit is not for beginners, modelling skills are required so this was a challenge for me.  It was worth it though as I feel that even though it didn't turn out as nice as I would have liked, I learned a lot about seam work, modifying parts and weathering!  Fun stuff! 

Well, off to our monthly model club meeting (IPMS Reno High Rollers)

Congratulations Scott.  Glad to see you stuck it out & finished it.  Nice work on the Model, should be a nice add to your collection.

Regards,  Rick

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.  I think it turned out pretty good, all things considered, and better than I expected given my skill level.  At least now I can be a bit more pro-active on the trouble spots for my other 109D and the two 109A kits. 

Those landing gears are still bugging me though.  They just would not seat properly into those resin wheel wells, so the angles seem a bit off to me. 

Rick, did you have issues mounting the landing gears in your A, and if so how did you go about making the fit better? 

Scott, I don't recall any problem with the landing gear that was out of the ordinary.  It's been a while, but I usually scrape the mounting lugs down with a #10 XActo until the fit is fairly loose.  Then I attach the LG using Quick-Set Epoxy, which gives me time to get everything square before the Epoxy sets up, about 2 minutes.

Regards,  Rick 

Wow! Scott, that looks fabulous! 

Well gang, I am happy to report I Am back in the game!  I finally cleaned off the desk and last night worked on my bf-109b a little.  Pics later in the week!

Thanks Jay, I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out, in spite of a few little glitches.  It was a tough kit to build, but it forced me to learn a lot of modelling skills, and that's a good thing.  The next one will be 10 times better as now I know all the "gotchas" with that kit. 

Looking forward to seeing your 109B 

I got some time the last few days to work on my 109b.  I just gotten some more painting done.  The 109b needs a coat of future and then decals!  Getting closer. but still very late.

Looking good Jay, that's the Hobbycraft kit right?  I have that in the stash waiting to be built along with a huge pile of other 109s for my big 109 project. 

What do you think of the kit?

Better late than never Jay .  Nice work so far .

Regards,  Rick

Scott, great job on the CA 109, it looks really great.

Looking forward to reading your write up. 

Jay, the little 109 looks to be comig along nicely. Certainly doesn't look 1/72.

Karl 

Thanks Karl, I'm just about done with the write up, I hope to be able to post it (and my write up on my P-40E) within the next day or two.  They're both pretty much finished, just want to proof them and tweak some wording here and there. 

One of these days I'll get around to the Cr.32, but I want to work on some other projects for a while.  Plus I need to figure out a way to build up the lip of the lower resin cowling. 

just... can't... let it...DIE! 

I feel like some mad scientist keeping this thing alive way longer than naturally possible. 

Anyway, I am ready for decals!!! the future is on and hopefully sometimein the next few days I can slap them on.  I am going to attempt to use the original decals!! please pray for me!!

I'm not going to do much weathering to this one so I am actually fairly close to being done but we'll see after the decals.  They look good on the paper but seeing as they are the original decals, that may be decieving.  I did put them in the sun for a while which helped with the yellowing of the film but I think I'll be cutting as much of that off, especially around the fuselage lettering. 

Looking forward to the finished build Jay.

Regards,  Rick