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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
