This here’s the old Monogram kit. Built it… long time ago!
She’s finished in the markings of Heinz Arnold’s personal aircraft while with JG 7, and represents the bird that’s at the NASM. (The scheme that the actual aircraft now carries was applied over this simple two-color scheme.) The victory marks are a bunch letter “I” dry-transfers, and the red wreath with star and number “43” (number of kills on the Eastern Front) were hand-painted. (You can’t see it too well in these shots…)
As I said, I built this model sometime back but I’ve constantly updated it here and there over the years. It was originally done SOB, but I’ve since added the antenna, brass belts, canopy retention wire, a gun camera port, ADF loop and resin wheels/tires. A while back I put it into this scene which, when finished, will have several figures and some additional equipment.
The groundwork is real dirt and static grass. I painted the grass with various shades of greens, yellows and browns and the dirt has been shaded with various washes. Alotta Rustall Black was used on the base.
The petrol barrels are resin, the name of the manufacturer escapes me at the moment. But they are not like the generic VP examples, these are actually representative of German barrels. The block of wood on top of one of the barrels is a piece of basswood and the pipe leaning up against the other (barely visible) is a piece of cryostat tubing that’s used to cool electronics in various military components. (I think this was from a batch used on Hellfires.)
All the rest is pretty much scratchbuilt, with the table, ladder and intake guards being balsa wood. The table was scratched, dinged, dented, abrased and stained here and there with various washes.
The rags are tissue (kleenex stuff), the netting is from VP, the hammer, screwdrivers and oil can are all made of cut and shaped plastic rod and/or stretched sprue, the toolbox is plastic strip and rod, and the misc parts are pieces of photoetch either left over from other projects or robbed.
Oh, the coil of wire is actual steel wire; I forget the gauge, but it’s super thin stuff used in the aerospace industry. And, my crowning achievement for this project so far; the hacksaw. Made that outta bent, shaped and flattened solder wire (.010) complete with serrated edge to represent teeth. (Wish I could get better close-ups with my Kodak POS digicam…)
Fade to Black…
