Me 109 4/7 collours

[Guest]

same book Steve, look at the middle pix on P12 of black/red #8

In this pic I can clearly see the mottle edges are actually very soft.I have been to the shop and the only correct RLM02 I could get was way to expensive for me! I desided to try and mix my own by using a cockpit green with some light grey in it......will have to see how it comes out though, stay tuned!

T

ps. what is the posibility of my plane ever having been in the 2 tone collour as on the book cover????(yellow 14)

[Guest]

If I look at the pix I posted it allmost seems to my untrained eye that the 02 was more greenish then grey.But then I would also assume that the exact collour would be hard to mach as it would fade ligter in the African sun?

Wold the inside of the canopy frame also be this 02?

Theuns

[Guest]

me 109 e collours

Here is what I have come up with.As far as I can tell it looks pretty darn close to the RLM 02 life collour I saw earlier today.

What is the verdict lads???

Theuns

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[Guest]

Is myne to light, do I add green?

[stona]

Hi Theuns,very hard to judge photos of colours on a computer screen but I would say you need to chuck some more grey in. I've brushed out two of the colours I use and I'll post a piccy as soon as they dry.

The inside of the canopy frame could be 02 or 66. I'd go for dark grey 66 on an E-7 but there isn't a definite answer without a good photo.

The scheme of your aircraft was applied in the field. It was supposed to match the desert/scrub terrain which it did well. The Es usually had a high demarcation line for the sand colour and then the green mottle. It was prevalent at the beginning of the Luftwaffe's North African campaign in 1941.

The aircraft on the cover is one of Marseille's Fs. These arrived in theatre in that standard two tone scheme (the demarcation line did vary from time to time) and replaced the Es. There are some examples of Fs and even early Gs on which a mottle has been applied but they were not the rule.

Here's a better version of one of the photos in your book which shows the mottle quite well. It is sprayed but is much tighter than the sort of cloudy overspray you'd see on a typical BoB aircraft in Europe.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Looks a shade too light.

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[stona]

The daylight has gone here and I can't get a decent photo. The colour Tony has posted above looks spot on to me. Anything like that will be fine.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

It is rather difficult to compare the pix on the screen to the example in my hand:smile13:

I will add a few drops of dark grey to it and see if that looks better, otherwise I will tell people the paint was faded! LOL

First I will do a bit of an experiment and drybrush on smoe grey to see if it makes it look more like 02

Theuns

[Guest]

Well ,I have got it as close to the pix as I can with mye untrained Mk-1 eyeball.I will stick to what I have got and start assembly on it.Luckely as Steve said - the RLM standards might have been "interpreted" differently by the paint Co's LOL

Theuns

[stona]

It'll be fine Theuns. It's a model and no inspectors are coming round with chips for comparison! Don't forget to keep us posted.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Steve, there are some pretty "presice" rivet counters at my IPMS:smile13: But mostly the rest are OK lads.

I will post pix later, want to try out the seatbelt tutoral that was on this forum, looks like "fun"

Theuns

[stona]

Tell 'em it's your model!

A word of caution. The struts supporting the horizontal stabilisers are a little short on the Tamiya 1/48 kits. I assume that's what you are building. This may have been corrected by now but it is worth checking. The stabilisers should not slope downwards (anhedral) from the fuselage. I've seen two good fixes,both leave the fuselage attachment alone and move the problem to the far less obvious attachment to the stabilisers. One fix was to extend the upper end of the strut with a build up of white glue and the other was to insert and shape a small section of material into the strut just beneath the upper attachment point.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Have a Tamiya in progress at the mo,will take a pic of the struts for you if you like.

[Guest]

I have read a few reviews stating the same re the struts. I will leave them off till all the painting is done.I like the idea of the blob of white glue to attach them.

The instr pannel is allmost done, and will post a pix later.

All other pix welcome!

Theuns