Hasegawa Me Bf109G-4 1/48 Hartmann

[danybut]

My first post here 🙂
This is my attempt to reproduce the Me 109G-4 flown by Erich Hartmann in 1943 JG52
Kit is the Hasegawa 1/48, with Eduard PE and box decals 
Thanks for watching, critics are really welcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 20 by danybut

[Airbusboy]

What a beautiful Gustav - superbly built and finished. What technique did you employ for the Eduard decals ?

[Dean Whiston]

I like that 😁

 

Nice to see the visible join lines on the rear fuselage ….. just like the real thing …… all too common to see them carefully removed by modellers unnecessarily 

[danybut]

2 hours ago, Airbusboy said:

What a beautiful Gustav - superbly built and finished. What technique did you employ for the Eduard decals ?

Many thanks for your kind words. Decals come from Hasegawa box actually , they are pretty good even if on the thick side : I usually treat them with Gunze MrMark Softer (old formula ) 

 

2 hours ago, Dean Whiston said:

I like that 😁

 

Nice to see the visible join lines on the rear fuselage ….. just like the real thing …… all too common to see them carefully removed by modellers unnecessarily 

Thank you Dean! 🙂

[Mycapt65]

12 minutes ago, danybut said:

Decals come from Hasegawa box actually , they are pretty good even if on the thick side : I usually treat them with Gunze MrMark Softer (old formula ) 

Great build. It looks fantastic. I'm a big fan of the Hasegawa 109s. I bought that exact kit and the resin upper gun deck and wheels had an odd pebbly surface so I built it as a G-6. Did you use the resin parts?  I still have them for reasons I can't explain.

 

Regards 

Ron 

[Armorrich]

Beautiful work and excellent painting!! Man I wish I could come close to that kind of surface finish. A real looker...

 

Cheers...Rich

[Rod bettencourt]

Very nice paint job. If I could make one comment, some of the panel lines just stop particularly on the cowling area. Perhaps draw them in or a bit of re-scribing. Thanks for sharing.

 

Rod 

[VolkerR.]

Very nice!

[georgeusa]

Not a critic here, but a fan.  Wonderfully built and finished 109.  This stands up to any newer kit in the way it looks when it is finished.  Thanks for sharing.

[mick]

great work

[danybut]

19 hours ago, Mycapt65 said:

Great build. It looks fantastic. I'm a big fan of the Hasegawa 109s. I bought that exact kit and the resin upper gun deck and wheels had an odd pebbly surface so I built it as a G-6. Did you use the resin parts?  I still have them for reasons I can't explain.

 

Regards 

Ron 

Hello Ron , yes I used kit resin parts : they are so so actually as surface detail doesn't match with kit standard.

 

Regards Dany.

 

16 hours ago, Rod bettencourt said:

Very nice paint job. If I could make one comment, some of the panel lines just stop particularly on the cowling area. Perhaps draw them in or a bit of re-scribing. Thanks for sharing.

 

Rod 

Hi Rod ,many thanks ! Yes you are absolutely right , cowling area needed lots of work to match and I missed to get correct panel lines .

Regards Dany.

[Mycapt65]

1 hour ago, danybut said:

Hello Ron , yes I used kit resin parts : they are so so actually as surface detail doesn't match with kit standard.

 

Regards Dany.

 

Hi Rod ,many thanks ! Yes you are absolutely right , cowling area needed lots of work to match and I missed to get correct panel lines .

Regards Dany.

Thanks Dany,

I wonder why Hasegawa went the route they did to get a 109G-4. It seems the long ways around. They already had a good G-2 kit. Couldn't they make a G-4 from that by just  adding the little 109G-6 wheels and wing bulges sprue to that? I don't know.

 

Seems a shame to market a special edition kit with sub par resin. It's already difficult enough to blend resin and plastic parts. I think you did a great job with yours. 

 

Be well 

Ron