Messerschmitt/MBB GB

Welcome to the 2021 Messerschmitt MBB Group Build. As the name suggest, its open to subjects produced, wholly or partly by the Messerschmitt company and those produced by the MBB company which was created in 1968 with the merger of Messerschmitt, Bollkow and HFB.

Subject can include those designed and built by BFW from 1927 when Willy Messerschmitt joined the company, so early Bf 109’s and other subjects are included.

And the GB is not only open to aircraft. After the war the company turned to makeing motorsycles. And, in their factory, a company set up by Fritz Fend built cars, commonly known as bubble cars.

After the formation of MBB, the company produced its own aircraft as well as joining partnerships in building a number of aircraft. They also produced missiles and spacecraft, includeing spacelad.

Any project the company took part in until it became defunct in 1989 can be included. Anything built by Airbus after this date is also allowed.

If you have thoughts on a subject that i have not covered, please ask and i will look into it.

These Wiki sites list projects by both companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm

Now the rules.

  1. Starts Jan 1st 2021 and ends Dec 31st of the same year.

  2. As long as the build is on the roster by Dec 31st, you can carry on building and posting as long as it takes.

  3. Post plenty of pics.

  4. Going off topic is expected, as long as your chatting and haveing fun, thats all that matters.

  5. Partly started builds and cross overs are allowed.

  6. Finally and most importantly, the word Spitfire is here by offically banned from rearing its head in this thread. Thats the one and only time it will be mentioned.

Any questions, ask.

And here’s your choice of badges, please pick and post one.

Now, sign up and enjoy.

Roster

Armor_Aficiando ICM 1/48th Bf 109F-2 (Completed)

Bish Academy 1/72nd Bf 109E-4

Trumpeter 1/32nd Me 262A-1a (Completed)

Hasegawa 1/72nd Eurofighter Typhoon (Completed)

bobbaily Hasegawa 1/48th Bf 109E-4/7 Jabo (Completed)

BorisBaddenov Tamiya 1/72nd Bf 109E-7

crown r n7 Hasegawa 1/48th F-104G**(Completed)**

Deeve_ Academy 1/72nd Me 163B (Completed)

Eagle90 Dragon 1/48th Me 163

falconmod Italeri 1/72nd Me 210A-1 (Completed)

fotofrank Hasegawa 1/48th Bf 109F-4/Trop**(Completed)**

Hasegawa 1/48th Bf 109E-4 (Completed)

Hobby Craft 1/48th Bf 109G-3

Monogram 1/48th Me 262

Gamera Tamiya 1/48th Bf 109E-7

gomeral Airfix 1/72nd Bf 109G-6

Hoss WA Tamiya 1/48th Bf 109G-6

JBRaider Dragon 1/72nd Me P1101 (Completed)

jeaton01 MPM 1/72nd Bf 109V1 (Completed)

AMG 1/48th Bf 109A-1

keavdog Tamiya 1/48th Bf 109E-7/Trop (Completed)

knox Modelsvit 1/48th Bf 109D-1

Tamiya 1/48th Bf 109E-3

Modelcrazy Airfix 1/72nd Bf 109E-4**(Completed)**

Mopar Madness Airfix 1/144th Airbus A300B

mustang1989 Tamiya 1/48th Me 262A-1a (Completed)

plasticjunkie Trumpeter 1/32nd Bf 109K-4 (Completed)

taxtp Airfix 1/72nd Bf 109E (Completed)

tempestjohnny Italeri 1/72nd Me 210A-1 (Completed)

Wingman_KZ Eduard 1/48th Bf 109E

Zvezda Eduard’s 1/48th Bf-109E-1 (Completed)

Completed Builds

jeaton01 MPM 1/72nd Bf 109V1

keavdog Tamiya 1/48th Bf 109E-7/Trop

fotofrank Hasegawa 1/48th Bf 109E-4

Deeve_ Academy 1/72nd Me 163B

JBRaider Dragon 1/72nd Me P1101

tempestjohnny Italeri 1/72nd Me 210A-1

falconmod Italeri 1/72nd Me 210A-1

fotofrank Hasegawa 1/48th Bf 109F-4/Trop

plasticjunkie Trumpeter 1/32nd Bf 109K-4

Bish Trumpeter 1/32nd Me 262A-1a

crown r n7 Hasegawa 1/48th F-104G

And an honorary mention for his F-104C

Zvezda Eduard’s 1/48th Bf-109E-1

Modelcrazy Airfix 1/72nd Bf 109E-4

mustang1989 Tamiya 1/48th Me 262A-1a

Armor_Aficiando ICM 1/48th Bf 109F-2

Bish Hasegawa 1/72nd Eurofighter Typhoon

bobbaily Hasegawa 1/48th Bf 109E-4/7 Jabo

taxtp Airfix 1/72nd Bf 109E

I’m in! And thank you. I have the 1/48 Eduard Adlerangriff BF 109E in the Battle of Britain boxing in front of me and that’s what I’ll start with. Undecided on which schemes yet. There are several that I like so there may be some Overtrees in my future. Also need to get photo hosting set up but I will do that soon. I will be in the process of moving over the next couple weeks but should be operational by the start date. Looking forward to this!

My phone is having problems so, I like the first badge.

You know I’m in Bish!!!

Imperial Japanese Army 1/48th Tamiya Bf-109E-7

Cool badges!

I’m in with the 1/72 Italeri Me 410

Bish, I’m in with this Hasegawa Bf 109E-4, probably BoB yellow nose:

I started it a few years ago and then put it back on the shelf.

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And this Bf 109G-3 in Swiss livery:

Glad to have you on board guys, will get the roster update. I made a slight change to one of the badges that i forgot to add.

I’m in with these two:

This will most likely be done before the first, a rebuild of a Monogram 109E I first built in about 1967.

I’m in with 1/48 Tamiya Bf109E-4/7TROP Black 8.

Bish, I’m in with an Airfix 1/144 Airbus A300B.

Thanks guys, got you aded. Nice to see we have an airliner already, i am sure we will see more.

John, look forward to seeing that MPM 109, i’d like to get some of the pre production versions.

Im in with a F-104G hasegawa 1/48 starfighter.

I’m definitely in. 1/72 Italeri Me210A-1

Oh Yeah! Another Bish GB…I’m in! Pics to come soon, but I’m going to do the DML, 1/48 Me163B-1a Komet! Not sure of the paint scheme yet, but this might be my first kit I do with PE! I’m ready to rock!

Here’s an idea for you Bobby.

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Here’s an idea for you Bobby.

That is brilliant! I was watching a doc the other day and it showed this aircraft, but I wasn’t sure if it was an actual aircraft or artist “guess”. But I think I will do this one! Now for the decals…and we know my luck with decals. LOL! Thanks Bish!
Oh, here’s the kit I’m doing.

Apparently it was only flown once like this, Spate was not to happy with his ground crew and had them re-paint it. There are AM decals for this aircraft. But some basic German serials would do the job.

LOL! Even more reason to do it in this scheme!!! Thanks Bish!

I’m in. I’ve got three unbuilt Bf-109 kits; I don’t kniw if I will get them all built, but I’ll start out with my ICM Bf-109F-2 kit. Which leads me to a question: does anyone know if this ICM kit is similar to their Spitfire Mk. IX kit? I just built one of those and was very frustrated. It had a nicely detailed Merlin engine that you could build into the plane, BUT if you wanted the fuselage closed up (i.e., the engine access panels NOT opened up) you had to leave the engine out! There was no way you could close it up with the engine installed, even though the instructions showed otherwise. In talking to other modelers who had already built the same kit, they said that even though it was not in the instructions, that it was fairly common knowledge (news to me!) that you couldn’t install the engine unless you wanted the plane opened up.

I see that this kit has a full Daimler 601 V-12 engine, so I was wondering if it was going to have the same issue as the Spit?

The Spitfire is an early ICM kit and they had a lot of molding issues early on. I built the Mark XVI and it’s very nice when done but it took 2 or 3 kits to get there. They were luckily very cheap at the time. I don’t have the 109 F-2 but it is 7 or 8 years newer so perhaps it is better. The later releases of the Spitfire are better than the first ones, I’ve heard.