Eduard Bf 109 E-1 - Weekend Edition - Spanish Legion Condor

[Felix]

Hey guys,

after some fails this year (try and error building) I started to build the 1/32 Eduard Bf 109 E-1 Weekend Edition with Spanish Masks from Montex.

There are some smaller mistakes I did (was a bit too fast in some points of the build) and I still have to learn how to handle and paint the canopy correctly because the Montex Mask left some touches at the Canopy. This learning phase should then lead into the build of a Tamiya A6M2 Zero in 32 scale. However (still not finished) if finished this will be the first model in about 13 years which I do complete.

This is also a bit a quick & dirty build as I wanted mainly to train my airbrush skills for a one color-plane. So There are small gaps here and there and she may not be perfect build, but this was not my personal task for this baby. So I started last thursday with the build and here is what I did so far:

1. Fuselage Inside and Cockpit Elements primed with black and added RLM02

2. & 3. First time building HGW Fabric Seatbelts, took a while for the first belt but it is just great!

4. & 5. & 6. Main Cockpit parts in place (except upper instrument panel). Wash and dry-brush done as well as subtile chipping at some corners. I decided to not add any Instrument decals or so because the Eduard Instruments are very badly done so I don't wanted to invest some decals at it. The Pro-Packs do Include Photo-Etched Instruments. Also you may note that the Rudder-Pedals are missing - again PE Parts within the Pro-Packs so it is totally missing in the Weekend Editions of the 109's.

7. First try of handling those small parts in the pit. I "glued" them with Clear-Coat in the end.

8. & 9. Upper panel and Revi installed, as I said above, I decided to not use any decals / add-ons for the Instruments.

10. Base-Coat of white applied, pre-shading done and added the base colors for the markings.

11. & 12. Added the Montex Mask for the Insignia and the Fuselage Markings

13. & 14. Painting progress starts with some RLM02 to the Fuselage first and RLM65 to the underside

15. To get back the pre-shade over the markings I added another layer of white and pre-shades

16. Removing the second color masks and add yellow paint to the spanish insignias and red to the fuselage smybol

17. & 18. & 19. & 20. Mask removed - isn't this nice?! In the second image the daylight reveals that I can be happy this far

21. I'm also very much happy with the pre-shades

22. & 23. Masking of the sides for the black stripes

24. & 25. Black added and...voila! Mask seems to have been good

26. Current state of this morning.

So all the main parts are now colored, I'll add the main landing gear as next step and lookout to work on an antenna for the 109 with EZ Lines. Then some of the stencis will be added (not all, as I didn't see any photo with every stencils in place - mostly only the basic 87 Octane Fuel and Medi-Kit Markings). Then a wash and some weathering will follow.

Hope you like it

Edited September 11, 2015 by Felix

[Paulo Monteiro]

Hello Felix

Nice job on that Emil. Just take a look how the handlers should be. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/showfull.php?photo=1266

You must primer the canopy frame first or airbrush more RLM 02 layers on the canopy frame, you can see the light trough the paint.

Nice paint job overall.

Edited September 11, 2015 by Paulo Monteiro

[Felix]

Hello Felix

Nice job on that Emil. Just take a look how the handlers should be. http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/album/showfull.php?photo=1266

You must primer the canopy frame first or airbrush more RLM 02 layers on the canopy frame, you can see the light trough the paint.

Nice paint job overall.

Yeah I know, I was a bit of "oops" when demasking and see that it still shines through. Next time I'll add more paint to the frame and also a black middle coat under the outside color.

The handles are correct until the E-4 Version. The Pic you send is an E-4, the canopie layout changed from E-3 to E-4. From E-1-E3 the forward frame had those round handles:

Source: http://www.warbirdphotographs.com/LCBW5/Me109-E3-31.jpg

Thanks for the words I always like to have some critics, I'm still learning so this is Important!

Edited September 11, 2015 by Felix

[Felix]

OK so this subject is finished for me...I'm happy with the model so far. For the next subject I'll also try more and other techniques.

Edited September 14, 2015 by Felix