1/48 Messerscmitt 109E-4

[Davec_24]

Hi all,

This is the second WWII fighter I have ever done in this scale, which has made a rather nice change from all the jets I normally do! It's Airfix's new 1/48 version, pretty much OOB. I added radio wire and a new anchor point for this on the tail (I snapped mine off). Also, the rear section of one of the wingtips is scratch-built, again because I snapped it off (and the carpet monster ate it). The only other change I made was to hollow out the cannon muzzles a little.

I really couldn't resist the yellow nose, so it just had to be the E-4 for me! I know the canopy framing isn't quite right for an E-4, but I opted to try and minimise this by leaving the central frame lines unpainted, so that relative to the other frames it looks something more like it should. Anyway, enough dribble; some pictures!

Hope you like her. Comments welcome as always!

[Mike]

Looks good Dave - it's 109 heaven here at the moment, innit?

[AndyL]

That's lovely Dave - great work.

[rowmk9]

Beautiul work. you should be very happy with it.

Rowan

[Jon Kunac-Tabinor]

Nice one Dave - you know this Airfix 109 is really brigning out the modelling ability of people on here. I haven't seen a badly built or finished one yet, and yours is no exception.

Cheers

Jonners

[FalkeEins]

very nice indeed Dave..

[Davec_24]

Thanks for the comments folk! For the most part, this was a really nice kit to build. As has been mentioned on here previously, the transfers aren't the world's best, and of course they omit the obviously necessary swastika on the tail. Thanks to AndyL for posting me some swastika spares to finish this one off.

The colours are mixed from Revell enamels. I'm quite pleased with how they came out, especially since I've not got previous experience of any of these Luftwaffe schemes!

[Ratch]

Another nice one