vppelt68 Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 By all means not the biggest one of my sins of last year. I´ve been in the process of finishing the Bf 109 STGB II prizes... yes, just waiting for our sponsors' decisions but I promise we´ll get back to it shortly. Better late than never... But I apologize, my dear friends . Anyway, this KUTA-build is actually not a GB non-finisher, as I originally intended to just build some parts of this along the four proper G-6:s I did finish! This is how the kit looked a few nights back. I started by trimming the interior parts to make them fit the slightly too narrow fuselage. This I did, and then forgot the build for a few days again. Last night I finished painting and assembling the interior, joined the fuselage halves, wings, radiator flaps and rudder parts - but didn´t take a picture . While browsing through Finnish Bf 109 decals I did find among them an extra AZmodel Erla- canopy. I´ll check if I can mate that with my previous, Revell G-10-to-G-6/AS build I did with its original, rather lousy canopy piece. It should look better, if I can make it fit. The Finnish Air Force was supplied with, possibly in an error, two G-6/AS- high altitude versions in late June 1944. The Revell build is decorated as MT-463 from 2./HLeLv 24 and this AZmodel build will be MT-471 from 3./HLeLv 24. To my knowlegde, there are no pics of either of them in their wartime appearance. This decal sheet has a painting diagram for -463 and I´ll go with that for the -471 too. Pics to be added... Best regards, V-P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted January 8, 2018 Author Share Posted January 8, 2018 So here we go; first a pic of the AZ belly. "GAP" is a largish department store in Paris. This is just a small "gap" and easily fixed with a dab of putty. The pair. I hope they'll fit together. Br, V-P 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted January 9, 2018 Author Share Posted January 9, 2018 I'm reporting ridiculously small steps but I need to whip myself further! The AZ-AS is practically assembled now. I have the remaining subassemblies ready to add after the painting and decals are done. And from below: I've masked the to-be-yellows and now it's time to add some more of that RLM76 Lichtblau. Br, V-P 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted January 9, 2018 Share Posted January 9, 2018 On 08/01/2018 at 10:32 AM, vppelt68 said: The Finnish Air Force was supplied with, possibly in an error, two G-6/AS- high altitude versions in late June 1944. The Revell build is decorated as MT-463 from 2./HLeLv 24 and this AZmodel build will be MT-471 from 3./HLeLv 24. To my knowlegde, there are no pics of either of them in their wartime appearance. This decal sheet has a painting diagram for -463 and I´ll go with that for the -471 too. As well as interesting model-making I'm very happy to read this. I have the Revell 1/48 kit spare and was wondering what to do with it.....I also have a KV so equipment from both ends in Finnish service 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted January 10, 2018 Author Share Posted January 10, 2018 A regular Klimi or a pultti-Klimi (too many years since I've last read about Finnish tanks, to use their proper names!)? The pultti/bolt-KV was still used in the summer of -44 as the leading tank in counter attacks, as it had the best armour. V-P EDIT: @SleeperService these are good links for Finnish KV-1 m1942 and KV-1E tanks. The latter is the "pultti-Klimi". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted January 10, 2018 Share Posted January 10, 2018 Thank you for that Kind Sir! 'pultti-Klimi' looks like the favorite at the moment. Like the build so far. Between us all there will be many Shelves of shame with gaps now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted January 12, 2018 Author Share Posted January 12, 2018 This time just some pics to talk for themselves. Best regards, V-P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Hi again. Some babysteps... Masking done for what's in the tin. Small patches are there to remind me, which areas are not to be painted. Somehow I always screw these up with the green-"grey". Had to console myself by test fitting prop and canopy. But I hate that green in my grey Messerschmitts! Br, V-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveyGair Posted January 16, 2018 Share Posted January 16, 2018 Very effective mottling scheme, I might be brave enough to do this myself one day! Davey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted January 16, 2018 Author Share Posted January 16, 2018 Thanks Davey! I added some brighter colour too: In my opinion, the port side mottling turned out looking better than the starboard side: The canopy got rid of its masking too. It and the prop are loose, added just for some motivation. It's beginning to look a lot like a Mersu 😄. Br, V-P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted January 20, 2018 Author Share Posted January 20, 2018 Done! Now I'll let the Micro Sol dry and add a few pics in the Gallery. Best regards, V-P 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Congratulations V-P and I like the snowy back drop to your Gallery pictures 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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