Adam Poultney Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 (edited) Yes, I am building something that is not a V Bomber. A rare occurrence, I know, but it's happening. I'm building a Zvezda Bf109F2 in 1/72 scale. This is a clip together no glue required kit, obviously I will be assembling it like a normal kit though. I plan to go with the box scheme, I've never done any white camo Luftwaffe aircraft before so any info on these schemes would be appreciated. Were they painted over existing camo? What was the weathering like? Edited March 16, 2021 by Adam Poultney 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturmovik Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 The regular RLM 74/75 camo was covered with the temporal white paint for the winter months. The scheme on the box top is the same on the 1:48 Eduard Profipack Bf 109F-2, so you could use that as a guide since the instructions are coloured. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 (edited) 5 hours ago, Sturmovik said: The regular RLM 74/75 camo was covered with the temporal white paint for the winter months. Might have to paint that underneath and chip through to it. 5 hours ago, Sturmovik said: The scheme on the box top is the same on the 1:48 Eduard Profipack Bf 109F-2, so you could use that as a guide since the instructions are coloured. Ah that is very useful! According to the Eduard kit, this one lacked its landing gear doors which is backed up by photographic evidence Interior painted up and fuselage halves attached. There's a nasty seam, I know bf109s are supposed to have some seams but these are too much so I dealt with them, but didn't fully eliminate them. clipped together Edited March 11, 2021 by Adam Poultney 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 Forgot to mention, the canopy was masked 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Hi Adam, this is a brilliant little kit! You should be having tons of fun with it! Only snag are the decals that could be better. Like you, I did build mine using glue and cutting anything beforehand that could stop me removing parts during dry fitting! I found the plastic "locks" that allow parts to hold together without any glue, a bit too effective!!! My kit was stopped at painting level for want of a scheme I was happy with... Am I a fusspot? Enjoy the end of the build. JR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 1 hour ago, jean said: Hi Adam, this is a brilliant little kit! You should be having tons of fun with it! Only snag are the decals that could be better. Like you, I did build mine using glue and cutting anything beforehand that could stop me removing parts during dry fitting! I found the plastic "locks" that allow parts to hold together without any glue, a bit too effective!!! My kit was stopped at painting level for want of a scheme I was happy with... Am I a fusspot? Enjoy the end of the build. JR Ah yeah I'm aware of the locks being too good, bit encountered any issues though. If decals fail, I can always just print my own since I'm working with a white background. Rather not though, I want a quick build. Anyway, this is getting pretty quickly built up. Fuselage glued on, many more small parts added. I put the gear on now (wheels aren't glued) as some drawings of this scheme suggest the gear legs were painted in the underside colour (RLM65 I think) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jean Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Hi, yes, the early F-2 are said t have been like the Emils: RLM 02, 71 and 65 underneath. Interesting concept. Decision, decision... Your model looks great JR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 5 hours ago, jean said: Hi, yes, the early F-2 are said t have been like the Emils: RLM 02, 71 and 65 underneath. Interesting concept. Decision, decision... Your model looks great JR then that's what I'll go with, I've got quite a few RLM colours sitting around because before I went crazy with v Bombers I built a lot of Luftwaffe stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 I'm also finishing up another build, it's a Special Hobby 1:72 Messerschmitt Me209V4. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 13, 2021 Author Share Posted March 13, 2021 Huge progress on the 209. I plan to prime the 109 tomorrow and get to painting pretty quickly. A few fixes to the black primer I preshaded the model using a Vallejo colour I have lying around that I hardly use (these colours that I use less see far more use as preshading paint) A coat of Vallejo RLM02 was applied and the props were painted in silver. For once I seem to have got a much better preshading effect than I usually do Two schemes worn by the Me209V4 are provided. I will be going with this one where it was displayed with a fictional Luftwaffe unit's markings including red 14 numbers and a snake 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 Bf109 canopy framing is painted. I decided to hold off on doing any more for now as I'm waiting for an order to be delivered with a new primer that I want to try 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 Me209 is finished Me209 is finished 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(ex)Sgtrafman Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Very nice! Well done buddy 😎👍 Iain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 (edited) The primer arrived along with a bunch of new Hataka paints, although most aren't for this model. The primer needed a lot more thinner than most paints I've used so I messed up the first bit which will have to be redone tomorrow. Once I added more thinner and declogged the airbrush it sprayed very well I really should do this with all my paints, make a set of sample patches.... Edited March 16, 2021 by Adam Poultney 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 16, 2021 Author Share Posted March 16, 2021 (edited) With the primer fixed, I began the actual painting. First thing was preshading the underside and block filled the areas to be painted yellow with white. Once this was done I airbrushed on Vallejo RLM04. A layer of a slightly darker yellow was painted by brush, I thought the Vallejo paint looked a bit too light. As soon as this was all dry I realised I'd made a mistake; the yellow band on the tail is too far back. Typical. So I got out some isopropanol, stripped off the paint and added a new band in the correct place. Edited March 17, 2021 by Adam Poultney 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 Next up, undersides. I found a slight problem with this as I couldn't find my RLM76... After a while of searching I did end up finding it, so the undersides were completed. Top side got a quick coat of RLM75 and RLM74 followed by chipping medium. The canopy is supposed to be RLM74 so I painted that at this point. I also remembered that some Bf109Fs had one of the lower canopy panels at the front plated over - I only remembered this because I decided to play a bit of War Thunder and flew a Bf109F4 for a bit. This happens to be one such aircraft, so off came the tape from one panel and it was painted over in RLM74 (although it will end up white soon). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 So I'm quite happy with the work since the last post. I did the top surfaces making only minimal use of masking as there was some overspray I needed to represent. I did the chipping now as I'm not so confident in how well it would work with a gloss coat on top. This evening I applied the decals. They're not great, but they'll do. Swastikas from an aftermarket set because the kit ones are in four parts (I understand two parts... but four??) I forgot to crop these before uploading to do Flickr... Oh well, they're only WIP pics. Some amendments to the chipping will be made do the decals don't look out of place 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Wow that winter scheme has come up a treat! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 1 minute ago, Walter said: Wow that winter scheme has come up a treat! I am quite pleased with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 Had time to apply a wash in between A Level maths online lessons 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingTiger435 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Great stuff Adam, looking forward to seeing the 109 done. 209 turned out very nice and the 109 is looking good too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Poultney Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 With the wash removed and a few last details painted, I added a matt coatand some powders. I bought Vallejo's matt varnish after getting very good results with their gloss varnish. No way I'll get these bottles confused ever RFI up soon. Next build will be an Airfix Blenheim Mk1 in 1/72 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturmovik Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 24 minutes ago, Adam Poultney said: No way I'll get these bottles confused ever Mark both with colour labels, red for Matt and Blue for Gloss. Nice 109. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingTiger435 Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Great stuff, looking forward to seeing that Blenheim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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