2x Bf 109 F-4 (1/48)

[Guest]

Excellent modelling Steven :smiling3:.

[Steven000]

Thanks guys! :thumb2:

This afternoon I started working on the MDF-base, the trop-plane-scheme I did was from 'Martuba' in Libya (North Africa, 1942).
To get an idea of the landscape and colors I searched google for a few minutes and used these images from the region (Martuba).

Some nice earth-tones, small rocks and bushes...


I have some sand and stones that I collected and filtered a while ago, started gluing the largest rocks...


Then I added wood-glue, smaller rocks and a layer of fine white-sand.
In the end I thinned some more wood-glue and dropped it on the surface with a pipette. The edge was masked.


I did an attempt to make the wheels look like the're in the sand...


After the hairdryer I sprayed some coats of black primer (vallejo)


Then I sprayed the earth tones.
This took me a long time as I tried to get the color right, but when I changed to a different light-source I had the make adjustments over and over again. I wasn't able to capture that 'orange' tone very well.


Then I masked the outer-edge of the base.


The edge was sprayed with burned umber (vallejo), here you can see the end result of the base ...


The canopy-masking was removed and I placed the vehicles on the base temporary. Some small vegetation was added.




Although it's a small project it sure takes me a lot of time to get things done, but I learned a lot with this one so I'm glad I got it this far.
Next I still need to add the antenna, figures and a bit of small weathering, I also noticed I forgot to install the armor plate in the cockpit :smiling6: ...

So that's all for now, I'm of to bed! :sleeping:
Kind regards,
Steven

[Wouter]

You can go to bed now, lucky chap lol.
Nice base btw, really adds to the bf and kübel. Looking forward to see the details added

Cheers

[Si Benson]

Hi Steven,
Really impressed with all the work you’ve been putting in, everything looks very clean and tidy:thumb2: