Me 109 G5 1./JG 300 " Finished "

[Ettore]

Hello people !

I enter in this superb STGB with an Eduard kit, Profipack Edition , with some set details

The plane will be 1./JG 300 flown by FW. Hans-Werner Gross, Hangelar AB, March 1944 with a nice snake camouflage

I hope you enjoy..........

 

 

 

 

Ettore

 

 

Edited July 3, 2017 by Ettore

[SimonT]

Very nice, good looking scheme too!

[vppelt68]

Benvenuto Maestro Ettore, we´re glad to have you here with us! I assume Bf 109:s weren´t stationed at Palermo Boccadifalco because you´re not building one... Best regards and enjoy the GB, V-P

[BerndM]

Great choice, i am looking forward to.

[Ettore]

Dear friend V-P
No, this was not in Sicily, but in Palermo Boccadifalco there was a Jg53 squadron in early 1943, but I do not know what; the machines were Bf 109 G2 and I did not want to buy the fourth Edward's  BF 109 kit . I just have a picture about it  in a book about Boccadifalco history.

 

Regards

Ettore

 

 

[Touvdal]

sory wrong treath 

Edited May 11, 2017 by Touvdal

[Basilisk]

Great marking choice and lots of goodies to add to your build I am sure it will look smashing when finished.

 

I will follow with interest as the Eduard 1/48 109 F/G is on my to-do list as well.

 

Cheers, Peter

[georgeusa]

I am very interested in how you will do this came scheme.  German paint schemes are my kryptonite as I usually botch up the mottling.  Your scheme sounds even more daunting. Looking forward to updates. 

[Ettore]

As always, or almost, I start from the cockpit: 

- I prepared the various parts and painted some

 

 

- I added the colored photoetched and then I masked them

 

 

- Even Quickboost exhausts are put in place and the bulges

 

 

- With a Gunze RLM 66, I played a bit with black and an medium gray to create shadows and timid light spots

 

 

- And finally I painted the details, you do not see well but the oxygen pipes are in olive green.

 

 

La prossima settimana chiudo la cabina di guida e posizionerò in fusoliera, se tutto sarà buono, chiudo tutto per avere una fusoliera pronta

 

Ettore

[vppelt68]

"Next week I will close the cockpit and I will place it in fuselage, if everything is good, I close everything to get a ready fuselage"

That´s Ettores´ last line translated to English - thanks to an online translator . V-P

P.S: That build looks awesome - once again! Grazie maestro!

[Ettore]

Opps ! I forgot to translate into English

 

Ettore

[matteo44]

Very good job Ettore.

I like the cockpit ! 

 

Ciao

[Ettore]

 

Hi All

Today is Italian Republic National day, so we do not work, but we modelers are always on the piece;

I took advantage of it to work on the fuselage, in particular I fill with putty  various parts on tail with Mr Surface 1000

 

Then, with Gunze laquer thinner I cleaned the excesses

 

In the wheel bay I have mounted Quickboost pieces more similar to reality

 

Now the wings and the fuselage are ready to be glued

 

In the cockpit I have detailed the gun sight with the lenses, in the end I will add the power cable (which I forgot) and the lights on the inner frames

 

After joining wings and fuselage, I used tape to adjust the right dihedral angle wings

 

And this is what we have today !

 

Ettore

 

 

 

Edited June 2, 2017 by Ettore

[Ettore]

Hello people
I've added other parts to end the assembly: the radiator blades, neutral  ailerons, and lowered flaps

 

 

 And now is ready for coloring, but first a little pre shading: only black lines on lower surfaces and black lines plus white to fill the panels

 

After lower preshading, I realized i was wrong, because under will be totally black....

 

 

 

All foto are from mobile phone...

 

Ok, now a little pause and  I'll start with RLM 76

 

A nice evening to All

Ettore

 

 

 

 

 

[Ettore]

 

 

Hi  All

We finally got to camouflage, I immediately say that the result is not the one hoped for;

First I sprayed the RLM 76 , then I just blew it off with white in some areas

 

 

 

The difficult came after, spraying the RLM 74, following the camouflage of the instructions, it was difficult;

The horizontal snake pattern is very random, even in historical photos........

It is most likely that I have not used the right amount of thinner with the color, but I did a lot of tests and the result is this.

 

 

 

With black it was all easier, before Gunze's H77 (tire black) on all undersurfaces, then the same color with addition of dark gray, and finally some areas with a mix of black and  blue H54, always Gunze.

 

 

I'm not really happy with camouflage, but I hope that with  exhaust fumes, decals and washings, the appearance changes a bit better.

 

Goodnight

Ettore

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 17, 2017 by Ettore

[Ettore]

A few words: I'm sorry that photobucket prevents you from posting for free, ok we see if you see it from galleries in another forum:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clearly I finished the kit! Hope you like it........
A question: do you know some other site like photobucket?

 

Ettore

[stevej60]

Beautifully built and painted Ettore love that unusual scheme!

[galgos]

Like the build Ettore, especially since it's a JG300 plane.  I ditched Photobucket last year for Imageshack, good site in my opinion but if you look in the "Support" section at the top end of Britmodeller you'll see lots of comment and recommendations for other image hosting sites.

Max

[Ettore]

Thanks Max

I now  visit the Imageshack site !

 

Ettore