Colourful Kurfurst-Revellgawa 1/32 Bf109K

[stona]

I'm just about ready to prime this one.

So as I'm now at a point where there is a lot of waiting between various stages I'm going to start the thread for my "Captured" project in the GB.

Two models at once is a new one for me!

Cheers

Steve

[stona]

Some progress. I've primed the model with my favourite Halfords plastic primer and have made a start on the underside colours.

These are the major areas of RLM 76 and the late version which we'll call RLM 84.

The areas still in primer will be in natural metal apart from the outer gear doors which will be in RLM 76.

Next the fin and rudder which will take a while as it is a fairly complicated scheme in this area.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

This is looking good, I like the colour scheme very much.

[stona]

A little more progress.

There's a lot going on here. I've sprayed the upper cowling RLM 75 with a wavy demarcation and applied a light mottle in RLM 82 as per my reference. That's the easy bit as it's all done freehand.

I've also sprayed the fin and rudder in RLM 75 with a sharp masked demarcation to the RLM 76 on the bottom of the rudder only,you can just see this in the piccy behind and below the tailplane. Then I've sprayed hard edged blotches of RLM 82 on the fin and rudder. I'm convinced this was done using masks on the real thing so that's what I did. I made masks and tried to follow the photographic references I've got for this on other K-4s. daft thing is a lot of this will be partially over sprayed eventually!

Oh yes,though you can't see them here the outer gear doors have also been masked and sprayed RLM 76.

Cheers

Steve

[Vaughan]

That looks a very complicate camo Steve, but it looks like you will pull this one off.

Vaughan

[Guest]

Nice paintwork, I like the 'sub assembly' style there. The JaPo books are very helpful for these late Me109s.

[Ian M]

Now I can see were the Colourful comes into the title!

Sure looking good so far. Maybe you should keep this one by the bench. A sort of 3D German paint colour guild!

Look forward to seeing the last of the paint go down.

Ian M

[Guest]

Rather you than me, steve, tackling something so complicated! I'm practicing mottling for the 1st time (or I was until I put the AB away in disgust! )

I'm looking forward to seeing this one progress to pick up some tips!

[stona]

The JaPo books are very helpful for these late Me109s.

They are indeed. The one I'm doing here I haven't found in the JaPo K book,it may be somewhere else. I'm working off a profile in Wolowski's "Bf109 late versions". I still haven't found the photographic source of the profile but I'm not looking too hard! I did find a photo of a second Erla built K,interesting but a boring one colour scheme.

The JaPo book has been invaluable for pictures of tails,cowlings and just about everything else,including everyone's favourite,the wiggly demarcation down the leading edge of the wing.

Today I've sprayed the RLM 82 on the upper wings,tailplane and fuselage. Unfortunately work interrupted the important business of model building so it will be tomorrow before I'll get the RLM 81 on and maybe snap a photo.

I've decided to get all the camouflage colours on and spray the natural metal (Alclad) last of all.

Cheers

Steve

[stona]

As promised a photo of the basic camouflage.

I've oversprayed the rudder with a mist of RLM 76 and applies a zig-zag of that colour over this as per my reference. The overall RLM 81/RLM 82 scheme is applied.I've no evidence for the pattern on the upper wings and tailplane so I picked one of the three or four possibilities on the grounds that I like it! Very scientific. It's been post shaded to try and give the impression of the very thin single coats that were applied on these late war aircraft.

The area on the fuselage which you can see in primer will be sprayed in a natural metal finish along with some under wing panels that you can't see. Finally I will mist a zinc chromate colour over the two NMF fuselage segments. I will have to wait until the camouflage has dried before I do this. Finally I'll figure out some way of simulating the red/brown putty visible in those primer coloured seams.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

This is getting better & better Steve! Such an interesting project, I'm thinking it'll look amazing once it's finished. As for the putty, how about a slurry of burnt Sienna oil paint, fortified ( as it were ) with ground pastel? Or Mig powder if you're rich!

[stona]

Hi Patrick. Burnt Sienna is about the right colour. Whatever I do it has to be thin enough to run into the panel lines,just like a pin wash. Luckily the lines on this,and all models,are about 20 times the scale size of the real ones so I've got a chance

Cheers

Steve

[papa 695]

Its looking very good Steve still plenty to do keep up the good work

[mossiepilot]

Really colourful build Steve.

I'm faffing around with my 109 while I wait for stuff to dry on my GB 262.

So I'm enjoying watching.

Keep up the good work .

Tony.

[Vaughan]

Very interesting camo Steve. Makes you wonder where they got their ideas from and the reasons behind it.

Vaughan