This is something I did not have in my collection thus far. I have several 1/48 and 1/32 K-4’s but all of them are with special marking and/or mods. I didn’t have a plain old K-4 with all the original stuff attached. So I did a K-4 in RLM standered camo and with all the factory stuff it came equipted with. I plan on doing both hartmanns and grafs K-4’s in 1/32 and both of these are very colorfull. Can’t let daywalker and gzt build all the 109’s[:D].
The kit is the old hasegawa 1/48 bf109K-4. I usually do not use kit decals but they fit the bill. painted in the marking of Fw. Strebel mount “yellow 4” ingeborg work # 334210, Flown with JG 3 in march 1945. For th most part this mechine is done to RLM standereds. The paint, camo, and marking on this K-4 are all as the RLM specified. All the antennas and gear doors are in place and in the functional landed postion. One note on this kit, the wind screen does not fit. It’s base is oversized and it takes alot of sanding and test fitting to get it on. I have not had this problem with any other hasegawa 109’s before. Still not happy with the fit, but went with it.
I used the Aires masters interior detail set and it’s great. Fit is excellent, every detail has been accuratly reproduced for the K-4’s cockpit. I added scratchbuilt detail to both the oil cooler and wing rad coolers, rib detail to the camber flaps, gear indcators, radio line, fug venteral antenna, brake lines, and wheel well detail. Drilled out 30mm cannon hub, radio antenna access to the fueslage and added a boot to the down line. Gave it light to moderate weathering, and slightly over flattened the tires[B)]. Finally I added slate actuators, canopy prop and a cool gyro gun sight I had laying around (there goes the “standered” but no one will know except me[}:)]).
To the cameras eye the superchager intake halves appear way off. upon close inspection the human eye does not pick this up.
Stan, your paint job is tremendous…very nice 109K. You’ve got the nicest Luftwaffe lineup I’ve seen. This one looks like you can crank it up and it will fly.
I have come close to building that scheme numerous times, but after seeing yours, I won’t waste my time. There does, as you pointed out, seem to be a small seam issue w/ the intake. One of the finest 109’s I have ever seen in quarter scale…nicely done!
A beautiful 109. Nice detailing. The only thing I see that takes away from it is the tires. A little too flat and squished looking. Other than that she’s a a real beauty.
Thanks all of you, you guys are great. Besides the tires needing air and the windscreen not fitting the way I’d want it too it came out very good. I inspected it today in the sun light and even under close examination that intake looks good. I have no idea why the camera shows it as being so far out of wack. It looks far better then my G-6 that gave me so much trouble with the paint. Thanks again for looking. here a few pics I forgot to post. If I can get some good pics of the details I’ll post them. I should have taken a pic of the cockpit BEFORE I installed it, I can never get good cockpit shots.
