Einar Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 (edited) The Messerschmitt G-2’s and G-6’s played a very important role in halting the Red Army's massive attack in the Finnish Karelian Isthmus in the summer of 1944. The very existence of Finland as a nation was then at stake since the USSR’s plan was to break the Finnish army’s defences and to conquer the whole country. All in all, a total of 159 G-2’s and G-6’s were delivered to the Finnish Air Force . At the hight of the battle new Messerchmitts were flown to Finland from Germany almost day and night by different squadron pilots. Some of the planes still wore the German crosses in the wings and they were just painted over and replaced with the Finnish roundels. I chose to build the Messerscmitt G-6 number MT-492 since I wanted to build a one with the tropical filter, the erla canopy, the spiral motif in the spinner and the radio antenna on the underside of the wing. I went through a lot of info and finally ended up with MT-492, This fighter did not however, achieve any aerial victories before the end of the war. I built my 1/48 scale model from Hasegawa's G-2 series, which had all the additional parts needed for the G-6 except for the erla canopy which I found in my spares box. The quality of the kit was excellent and there were no problems in assembling it. I additionally enhanced the cockpit with Eduard's photoetch set and used the flattened tires from Airwaves. The toned down light blue roundels and other decals are from InScale's FAF G-6 sheet. The overpainted German crosses can vaguely be seen in the wings, too. The most challenging part of painting the model was the German mottled camo. For that I bought Eduard’s brass mottle masks. For the camo I used the following shades of Xtracolor: RLM 74 Graugrün - X206 RLM 75 Grauviolett - X207 RLM 76 Lichtblau - X208 RLM 02 Grau for landing gear shafts and landing gear - X201 RLM 70 Schwartzgrün for propeller blades and spinner. - X204 Dark gray cockpit, Revell 78, Matt tank grey Yellow X106 At the air base of Utti, near the Russian border in South-Eastern Finland there is a restored Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6. The fighter is on display in a glass hut commemorating the brave airmen that fought against the massive Red army. The Utti air base was a very important air field in WWII and it is still in operation. It is nowadays home to the Army Special Forces and the helicopter operations of the Finnish Defence Forces. Edited December 2, 2022 by Einar 37 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juhannussima Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Looks great Einar. I think that MT-492 was one and only with the spiral on spinner, - excluding some postwar planes- 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einar Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 1 hour ago, Juhannussima said: Looks great Einar. I think that MT-492 was one and only with the spiral on spinner, - excluding some postwar planes- Thank you / kiitos! Einar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaleModeller_54 Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Very Nice , you done a brillant Job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgeusa Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 It is always a delight to see the 109 done in markings other than German. This is such a well done kit and the markings/camo is just great. Thanks for sharing the build and the history. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einar Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 9 minutes ago, ScaleModeller_54 said: Very Nice , you done a brillant Job. Thank you, Einar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einar Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 9 minutes ago, georgeusa said: It is always a delight to see the 109 done in markings other than German. This is such a well done kit and the markings/camo is just great. Thanks for sharing the build and the history. Thank you very much Georgeusa, Einar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zigomar Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Your model really looks the part with the "Mersus" preserved in Finland, and that is a compliment. Very well done. Cheers. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einar Posted December 3, 2022 Author Share Posted December 3, 2022 11 minutes ago, Zigomar said: Your model really looks the part with the "Mersus" preserved in Finland, and that is a compliment. Very well done. Cheers. Thanks Zigomar! Einar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giampiero Piva Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Very nice ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einar Posted December 3, 2022 Author Share Posted December 3, 2022 3 minutes ago, Giampiero Piva said: Very nice ! Grazie mille Giampiero! Einar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 great work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 STUNNING model. You did a SUPERB job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einar Posted December 3, 2022 Author Share Posted December 3, 2022 2 hours ago, mick said: great work Thanks Mick! Einar 1 hour ago, HOUSTON said: STUNNING model. You did a SUPERB job. Thanks Houston! Einar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesa Jussila Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 Looks really great. German mottled camo is always a challenge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einar Posted December 3, 2022 Author Share Posted December 3, 2022 19 minutes ago, Vesa Jussila said: Looks really great. German mottled camo is always a challenge. Thanks /kiitos Vesa! Einar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Klaatu Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 A very nice and unexpected build! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einar Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 2 hours ago, Dave Klaatu said: A very nice and unexpected build! Thank you Dave! Einar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hook Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 On 12/2/2022 at 10:11 AM, Einar said: The very existence of Finland as a nation was then at stake since the USSR’s plan was to break the Finnish army’s defences and to conquer the whole country. History really tends to repeat itself, doesn't it? Lovely 109! Cheers, Andre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einar Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 21 minutes ago, Hook said: History really tends to repeat itself, doesn't it? Lovely 109! Cheers, Andre Thanks André..and you're quite right. We Finns have learnt our lesson and do not ever let it happen again!!..now the poor Ukranians are in the same situation. We have to help them to halt the barbaric russians🤬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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