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Hello all A little mor progress. The yellow 4 decals are on, HGW wet transfers, great stuff! So now the question is, mottling or not? The Eduard E-4 has it's main paint coat applied, next are the decals. The different shades of RLM 65 show here, the lighter one was mixed based on a Revell RLM65 enamel paint, the darker one is Gunze Mr. Color Laquer paint. RLM02 and RLM71 in both cases are MRP.

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While I wait for the yellow 14 decal to arrive, to get the required yellow 4 with black outlines, some other decals came in. So the 2nd 109E I have on the bench, an Eduard E-4, bought as a E-7 WE edition years ago, receives some attention... cheers Uwe

Hello all Thanks a lot for the replies so far, good information shared by all as was to be expected in this excellent forum. Meanwhile I made some progress. I added the basic decals and most of the maitenance stuff as well. I am waiting for the yellow 4 decals, it will come from a Marseilles yellow 14 sheet. Once the decals are on I will add the slight feathering of the spine camo to the RLM65 and also the mottling as can be seen on the photo. To me it looks like paint brush strikes? The spinner back plate I still have to repainted, here RLM70 was suggested. I wonder if the spinner colors somehow where squadron or group specific or if they were left to the choice of the pilot or mechanic? thanks Uwe

Horst Carganico, surprisingly, had one retrofitted to one of his Bf 109F-4s I am not sure about the decal options in Zvzda's F-2 right now but this is where the "E-3" canopy came from. The original Airfix is unusable

...and about the landing gear length, here a picture of the restored, or shall we say newly built, white 13. Shows me that both, Airfix and Eduard, are quite a bit to long...

Hello all Calling the Bf109-E experts for the BoB time frame. I have that 1/48 Airfix 109 E3 that I was planning on building as Ernst Arnold's yellow 12 that crash landed in the UK. I first had a profile that showed is as a E-3! After having the main paint job done I found out that his plane was actually an E-1. Since I did not want to rip the wings apart to change it back and then re-paint everything I was looking around for another subject that would fit my paint job. I did find yellow 4 of 1.JG-27 but I only have one picture of it. Is this plane known and does someone have more info about it please? thanks a lot Uwe

Definitely not...Hasegawa still has the best Sabre out there....

Hi I just watched a couple (many) reviews and build videos on youtube and I am not impressed. Apart from the usual (cheap) low pressure molding in sub standard molds made in Cheapistan, the cockpit is a pure joke! The seat, or what is meant to be it, a 10 year old one could carve from a piece of soap with better details. The rest of the cockpit also lacks details, it almost reminds me of the Airfix blister packs of my childhood. I do not understand that. I have quite a few newer Airfix kits and while non of them is up to Tamiya or Eduard standards, some of them are really nice. Spitfire Mk1 to 5, P-40B, Defiant, Hurricane, Mustang. And then you have the Sabre or the 109E, with it's trenches and glas part that look like the bottoms of whine bottles. I wonder if Airfix employs someone good in their marketing department? The 109E up until very recently was the most acurate -E outline wise...and if made to high standards could have been a million seller. The same goes for the Sabre, a Hasegawa quality -A model (with John Wayne decals 😉 )would have also sold millions I am sure. No, it has to be a toy like RAF version which is really only interesting for the decals. ) Sorry for the rant... cheers Uwe PS: Toying with the idea of buying a Hawker Hunter, any thoughts on that one?

Hello again Thanks for the hint with the prop, I checked my Eduard 109 boxes and now see what you mean. I dicided on not changing it though since I am afraid to ruin the spinner in the process and I do not have a replacement. The panel lines are really rather deep but after painting they start to look a bit better. I will only use lighter washes down the road. Painting so far was done with Mr.Color lacquer and thinned with Mr.Color leveling thinner. The RLM 65 I had to mix since I did not have that. I used Mr. Color 20, light blue, and mixed in RLM 78. It now matches the Revell RLM 65 I do have, just did not want to mix lacquers with enamel here. cheers Uwe

Hello all While I am waiting for my Hurricane decals to arrive I decided to work on a long given up project again. I once bought an Airfix 109E but when I saw how really rough some of the parts, especially the glas parts, were, I shelfed it. Now, since I am a bit in this BoB mode, I watched the movie again the other day, I thought I could have another look at the kit. Mine is the Afrika E-7 but the box contains everything needed from an E-1 up to the E-7. I then went into my stash and searched other kits for duplicate parts. The wheels I took from a Eduard G-10, it has the early -F wheels included that are just fine for an -E as well. The prop...well I forgot where I found this one. I modified this one already during the 1st attempt years ago. The glas part were a problem though. And then I found this! In one of my Zvezda 109F kits I spotted a full set of beautifully made early -E glas parts. But Zvezda never made an -E version at all! Anyway, those glas parts are very nice and they fit the Airfix 109 just fine. So here we go...the Airfix 109 will finally be worked on again. It is still a rather rough kit but it will look all right in the end even though not like an Eduard one...those are just top notch. Here are some pics that show the progress. Cheers Uwe

Wow, that's one nice Hurricane. I have a MkI from Airfix in the making and those markings, I first spotted them in the Winglader book, are just what I want. My kit is the Sea Hurricane IB, only one I could get here. Does anyone know if Airfix sells the decals seperately? Or is there an after market sheet available? I very much like your interpretation of the "sky" underside that here looks very greenish. I started paining mine already...in "Eau de Nil" color. thanks a lot Uwe

Worth it's weight in gold... Congratulations

Hello all Stepping in on this here since I have a question...not about what to use of xyz when and how it looked but about paint recommendations forus modellers. I am currently working on an Airfix Hurricane Mk I in 1/48. the kit I had in my stash was the Sea Hurricane MkIb. Now...I want an RAF airplane in between the battle of France and the BoB. I like the idea of hand overpainted undersides with no marking...my Tamiya Spit has that as well. Now I also want, for the 1st time in probably 40 years (since the 1/24 Airfix Spit) , to have an underside in duck egg green...or eau de nil. Back in the days this was available from Airfix and Humbrol (same stuff?) Both are now rarer then austrich teeth. I do have a bottle of Vallejo but I dislike this paint. It stinks like hand cream, dries slowly and does not work with normal Mr Color 400 thinner. It also seems not to be too tough. I do love Gunze Mr.Color and I am getting almost frenetic when it comes to MRP. Does anyone know what color numbers in those ranges match "eau de nil" ? thanks a lot Uwe

Hi all I have this kit and also the corresponding Eduard offering. Both are fine kits with the Eduard being a touch better IMHO. The fabric covered control surfaces and the canopy frames on the Academy kit are a bit on the heavy side. Question, does anybody have evidence that the ailerons really dropped a bit with the flpas being down? They are steel cable operated, so a "bleeding of hydraulic pressure" is for sure not the case here 😉 I will build one as a Mitsubishi and the other one as a Nakajima bird, for the 2nd I am searching for reference pics now. Both late 42 from the same carrier would be cool. thanks a lot Uwe