Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-10 (Holiday build #2)

[Jeff J]

Well, after the disappointment of the Revell P-51D Mustang shocker, I had to try another. Reviews of this kit seem positive...so fingers crossed!

(A quid cheaper too)

 

[Zephyr91]

Good luck! 

[ModelingEdmontonian]

I didn't find this kit great, but buildable.. perhaps you'll find my build of interest:

 

I'll be watching! Cheers

 

[Jeff J]

Let's first review the flashing (Revell do like a bit of flash!)

 

On the rear of the canopy:

 

Around the seat:

 

The top of the port side of the fuselage:

 

And this lump at the bottom of the same piece under the wing join (WTF is going in here? It's like a separate piece!):

 

Aside from the flashing, anyone else hate this dot-matrix style of painting instructions (I don't mean my scribbled writing!)?

 

[Jeff J]

Painting is happening...

 

[Jeff J]

It's been a busy late morning and afternoon.

 

Some construction:

 

 

Prior to which I'd tried picking out some of the cockpit details with some (inappropriate colour) silver paint:

 

 

Wings cemented and some on-the-sprue painting:

 

 

Needs must!

 

 

...this was just after attaching the tail wings and rudder, the idea here was to prevent gravity from sagging the tail wings.

 

"Heilbronn, we've had a problem...":

 

Where's the hole for the tail wheel?! I managed to resolve this with some blade gouging, but, there was nothing in the instruction about having to prep it.

 

There's a bit of a gap on one side of the fuselage to the wings join (due to the work required to reduce flashing? I don't remember any there...)

 

 

Anyway, I tried to fill in the gap with paint (no filler here, I'm on holiday, remember?), with not much success.

 

Gears stuck together, and underside painted:

 

 

And that brings us up to date.

Edited September 27, 2023 by Jeff J

[Jeff J]

Just a side note to say that I've not worked much with acrylic paints before, but I'm very impressed with them over enamel paints. Easy to thin out with a drop or two of water, then it goes on easily (even without primer) with little or no evidence of brush stroke marks, AND it dries really quickly so easy to quickly build up coats.

 

Hopefully this will continue when I start the challenge of the camouflage on the top side of the plane...

[Jeff J]

This afternoon's and evening's work:

 

Decals to the underside and spinner:

 

 

Lighter camouflage colour to the topside:

 

 

And decals to the fuel tank:

 

 

Doing a 7 mile coastal hike tomorrow, but hopefully I'll have the energy to finish the painting tomorrow* (topside camouflage mainly) and then the last construction and the remaining decals.

 

 

* later today!

[Jeff J]

Camouflage pretty much done:

 

 

Remaining tasks for today (going home tomorrow 😭): a few paint touch ups, apply the decals, attach the gears and a few other sundry items.

 

[Jeff J]

Worst decals ever.

 

[Jeff J]

Finished!

 

As predicted by @ModelingEdmontonian it's not a great kit. It doesn't join together very well, and I had a lot of trouble with the decals (two had identical numbers!), but I still enjoyed the build. More so than the inaccurate Mustang (*shudder*)

 

Thanks for watching!

 

[ModelingEdmontonian]

All things considered it looks remarkably good! Well done!