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Messerschmitt Bf 109F-1 - Werner Mölders


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Hello everyone!

Here is my Sweet 1:144 Messerschmitt Bf 109F-1 which I built in 2008.
It represents the machine flown by Geschwaderkommodore Major Werner Mölders, Stab./JG51, Luftwaffe, from Mardyck, France, in April 1941.

 

The Sweet kit is essentailly an F-4 so I had to make some modifications to make an F-1 (the F-2 is identical - the differences being internal). The changes involved adding a small intake on the starboard side of the engine cover, slightly reducing the diameter of the supercharger intake, filling in a panel line on top of each wing and squaring the oter ends of the main undercarriage bays. A final difference was leaving the bottom forward starboard corner of the (unarmoured) canopy unpainted.

The kit was fully painted and varnished with brush.

 

Thanks for looking
Miguel

 

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Hi Miguel,

 

for such a tiny kit, you did a beautiful job! It must have taken the patience of a saint, not to mention a bionic sight to get such a great result!

Congratulations!!!

JR

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Thank you very much @jean, @Walter, @stevehnz, @Max Headroom, @F-32 and @John D.C. Masters.

 

22 hours ago, jean said:

not to mention a bionic sight to get such a great result!
 

I don't know if I had it then but for quite a while now I have been using a headband with magnifying glasses. I don't know how I made it without one!

 

9 hours ago, stevehnz said:

That is rather lovely. I do like your mottling, I'd struggle to acheive that with a brush in 1/72.

Steve.

Thanks Steve. Basically, I do it using the dry-brushing technique with a little more paint.

 

Miguel

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