LUFTWAFFE MESSERSCHMITT Bf109 F-4 WINTER CAMOUFLAGE 1/144 SWEET

It is Messerschmitt Bf-109 of winter camouflage version. Sweet releases many superb kits and I think it’s one of them. There are two pieces in one box.

Both front and back are comical packages, there is a simple airplane description. About 40 years ago, it was 100 yen for a plastic model of this size at a miscellaneous store. Now the quality has improved and it is for mania, the price is around JPY1000. Some of them are over JPY2000.

It is one airplane part. This time the cats in the illustration of the package are not included in the kit.

As you can see, there are many kinds of decals included, so you can choose two of them. It seems that Hungarian Air Force can be selected.

If you work quickly you can assemble about 15 minutes. However, there are many careful works after this.
(01-September-2018)

Although it may be too small and disgusting, I think the masked canopy carefully as possible will make the canopy frame beautiful. A well-cut design knife and precision tweezers are essential.

I painted inside the cockpit with black gray and bonded the canopy. With UV clear adhesive there is less possibility of failure. Fine adjustment is possible until lighting with a UV light.

All details including antenna wire before painting. I added a Pitot tube with a step by filing a 0.2mm brass wire and stretched the antenna wire with a 0.037 mm ultrafine metal wire. It is not bad to make by this order because the plastic gets dirty when a curing accelerator was miss touched.

I blew the yellow belt of identification friend or foe.

Since it is boring if the same paint is used for both, one airplane was white, another airplane was decided to camouflage paint.
(04-September-2018)

It is winter camouflage of white and dark green and black green. I think that I should have narrowed the boundary of the color of the airbrush because it is 1/144 scale. However, this adjustment is quite difficult. This fighter has a lot of decals so it may not have such a sense of incongruity so much.

Marking is I./JG54 flown by Hauptman Hans Phillipp, Krasnogvardeisk, Russia March 1942.

Do you feel weathering as real, dirty? This time I made it with not so much weathering. A green heart mark appears on a white background.

It was hard to make a propeller unexpectedly.

Winter in Russia will be pure white in the snowy field, this fighter aircraft would have high white camouflage effect.

The yellow width on the bottom of the fuselage, maybe I made a mistake? I assume that this is good because there’s no more help. It is cool enough for an accent. Strangely, there is no shock as when caterpillar’s direction was reversed.

The canopy frame might be black.

This is JG54 Eastern Front marking. It seems not to be a specific pilot’s special fighter.

I heard that camouflage in winter was given on the dark green ground. Then, in the case of such two-color camouflage, it is the same procedure as a real fighter if you paint with white over dark green. This time I blew dark green on white.

However, the aircraft of the dark green one color is not seen so much except the winter. Perhaps you painted both white and green as an emergency paint.

Only the yellow belt of the fuselage is a decal, and the others are airbrush painted because there is no decal. I thought that the color was different between the decal and paint, it was almost the same color. It is Creos #113 RLM04 yellow.

Although it is a mini scale, I tried to make the Luftwaffe aircraft continuously. Personally, I think that Messerschmitt Bf190 appearance is better than Focke-Wulf Fw190. Perhaps a well-balanced streamline looks beautiful. I suppose I like the Spitfire for similar reasons.
(06-September-2018)

Additional work. The propeller spinner in the center should be painted with gunmetal as it is a machine gun nozzle. I think the 20 mm machine gun was equipped from F-type.
(07-September-2018)