Under Construction: ME Bf109E

[Guest]

Looking good, could. I just say i would not spray on kitchen towel, it is full of loose fiber's, which could get blown onto your paintwork.

[Guest]

Ooh, good shout Mr Nuts, I hadn't considered that! This is particularly crappy kitchen towel too not much use for anything now

[flyjoe180]

Your lucky if you got a new tool spit Vb , I got the dogfight double Vb and 109 g and they were both old toolings , I wasn't happy , you can tell new tool , they have sunken panel lines and a lot less flash and burr,

I don't think there is a new tool Airfix 1/72 Vb Spitfire yet. That one looks like the old tool, trusty and accurate but lacking the recessed lines. Still a nice kit, I'm doing one at the moment.

Michael, that paint job came out not too bad mate, bit of touching up and I think you will have it nailed. Good work.

[Guest]

Yeah, turns out I actually bought this:

https://www.collettsmodelshop.co.uk/airfix-a50014-dogfight-double

Certainly explains the shocking fit with the wings. White patches have been touched up, the brown is just drying before I fix a couple of patches of blue. Frankly I'm over the moon with the filled in wing gaps, wish I'd taken a before photo now...

Won't be able to get decalling tonight it would seem still drying...!

[Alan 45]

I don't think there is a new tool Airfix 1/72 Vb Spitfire yet. That one looks like the old tool, trusty and accurate but lacking the recessed lines. Still a nice kit, I'm doing one at the moment.Michael, that paint job came out not too bad mate, bit of touching up and I think you will have it nailed. Good work.

Yes I agree joe the one I got was old tool

[Guest]

I just say i would not spray on kitchen towel

Because of this by any chance?

Those white specs are kitchen roll that's dried into the paint. This was a proper bitch to get out and I don't think I'll ever be happy with the results underneath so definitely lesson learnt, thank you!

So the brown earth paint has proper ruined two airbrushes and took an absolute age getting right with a hair brush. I'm hoping it was just a bad batch of paint it was that bad, nothing I could do made it right with air or hairy brush. Never had that problem with paint before, there'd usually be a fundamental mistake I made, but there was nothing to make it right. So after 5 coats of water thinned applications that meant the shallow panel lines and pre-shading were no longer visible, I finally gave up moved on with the build.

Here's where I am now:

I'm happy enough that I have an even colour on the wing, but it's worse to the eye. I'm planning on desert style weathering so I don't think it's all that bad as I can probably mask the mistakes. The wing gaps are looking better now than before, so that's good too. I cannot believe how many decals this model has though, this is barely halfway through the decal process!

Still finding this new found hobby a good challenge, and good fun!

I would like to know what people use for filler though as with the flash on this photo, all the join lines are visible. It's not as bad to the naked eye, but I would like a better filler, something thin enough to use the magic that is a capillary action would make life a lot easier. Are there any products you can recommend?

[monica]

looking good once a bit of weathering and pin-lining will look great,

[colin m]

Looking very good. I normally pre-shade and then often loose the pre-shade under the top coats ! But not too worry, your old friend post shade can save the day.

Vallejo do a 'plastic putty' which can be smoothed with a wet finger / cotton bud etc. Very easy to use. Great for wing roots.

[Guest]

OMG THESE TINY FECKING DECALS ARE SO ANNOYING!!!!!!!!

All those little red line things are doing is highlighting that the black exhaust bits were hand painted and it wasn't with a steady hand! GRR

[Guest]

Vallejo do a 'plastic putty' which can be smoothed with a wet finger / cotton bud etc. Very easy to use. Great for wing roots.

Sounds perfect! I shall have a Google!

[flyjoe180]

Enjoy

[Guest]

Looking good sorry about the paper toweling wish I'd mentioned it before your trouble. Still looks like you've got over it.

[Guest]

I mean seriously, did they have to number EVERY BLOODY PANEL LINE?!?!?

As you can tell, I'm rather frustrated. I was hoping to come home and give my first ever attempt at weathering a go, only a couple of decals were left I thought...!!!!

[Guest]

OMG, Stona has been kind enough to point out privately that my tiny decals on the nose are upside down. Having zoomed into the photo, I can see that the decal underneath the bloody exhaust is also upside down! These decals are so tiny that I cannot tell! Now I've taken a photo, I can see so many decals are upside down now!!!

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!

Super heavy weathering will ensue, it's our secret guys ;-p

[Guest]

Well you seem to be winning,so you're not going to buy the full decal set then .