Anyone have any advice on how I should be weathering the exhaust on a Bf109D-1 based at Richthofen? Clean/dirty, rust on the exhaust ports, soot trailing back? It’s an all RLM70 machine from March of 1939.
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I think that Tamiya XF-84 Dar Iron is a good starting point for the eexhausts.I would recommend looking at pics on line,there are a lot of 109 builds online and the real thing.
Lots of builds but not many early ones. I’ve seen a few pictures and color palettes that show the exhaust and a panel surrounding them being very dark. The E models are very similar and I’m pretty sure I’m going to treat it as such. I’m going to be light on the weathering since it isn’t war time yet.
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These early 109’s look frickin’ HOT!! I’ve used dry brushed on ground up pastels for this effect before and it comes out pretty well IMO. Just started with a light gray and blended it to darker gray and then to black the further away from the exhaust port I got.
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I do exhaust stains by drybrushing flat plack or flat gunmetal. For the stacks themselves, it depenfs on how they are finished, for color. I then drybrush very light tints of red and blue.
Ahoy Mustang1989: I agree. The early 109’s have a Shark-like appearance.
I have done exhaust stains with ground up pastels (my current preferred approach), a custom mixture of highly thinned paint (black, brown, grey, rust) sprayed at low psi, or Tamiya weathering pastels.
I have two sets of pastel chalk - one in earth tones and the other in greys/black. I will take the black and a grey stick and scrape off some which I then mix. I will add an earth tone until I get a reddish-dark grey mix. Then I will get some on a brush and apply from the stacks back in the direction of the airflow. I have experimented this same process but with a very lightly dampened brush, but I have not been happy with the results.
Thanks, I still haven’t tried anything yet cause life is in the way. Anyone know of a video out there for using pastels for exhaust on a dark aircraft?
Didn’t watch it all the way through, but grabbed this pic from it.
I did find this old post about exhaust.
The one thing I’ve noticed about using pastels, they are much easier to apply on a non-gloss finish, be it semi or matt.
I looked at a few contemporary colour pictures of V powered aircraft. Mostly greyish stains on the dark colours but the lighter colours tend to darken where the exhaust stains are.
Color WWII pics of exhaust stains on dark paint were almost non-existent.
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