1/48 Hasegawa Bf-109G-10

by Zafer Yilmaz on April 23 2009

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Turkey National Independence and Children Day

 

Hello all!
 
This is my 1:48 scale Hasegawa  Bf-109G-10 in Croat markings.  But first off all, I would like to apologize for my previous ARC article which was a 1:72 Croat Mig-21 in Croat markings.  I had mentioned Croat Air forces as 'HRO' which was wrong.  It would  be 'HZO' (Hrvatsko ratno zrakoplovstvo )  Thanks Croat fellas they corrected me and explained things I don't know about Balkan war in the 90s.  This mistake made me have new friends from the Balkan region.  So, as a thank-you I've built a Croat Me109 for them! :) Sometimes mistakes or faults may cause good stuff..Don't you agree?

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For this kit I got decals from my dear friend Ayhan Toplu.  He had a 1:48 Hasegawa Bf109G-10 'end of war' kit which contains Croat decals.  (thanks goes out to him!) And on the internet, I found a 'Black 4' picture on http://www.ww2aircraft.net .  Well, I admit that picture was great but white-black appearance was a bit confusing to select the correct colors.  Many  of Black 4 kits have been built until today in various RLM colors.  Hasegawa was saying the plane was in RLM 75-76-83 but other sources were suggesting it was RLM 76-81-82.  But I thought Hasegawa was right.  Because no other source was telling, upper side of plane had a RLM76 mottle which can be seen in the picture.   Hasegawa's instruction are correct according to this picture which was taken in Italy,1945.  So, I went with Hasegawa's way.  (If I am wrong again, I  will build another Croat aircraft to apologize! :) )

Well, I really shouldn't talk about kit.  It is already well known by Luftwaffe fans.  The 71 parts went together perfectly.  This is a 'putty-free' kit.  I used modelmaster RLM enamels and Tamiya acrylic yellow for the rudder and frontal bands.  As an extra, I used a styrene bar  for the canopy mechanism and decal seatbelts which I cut from Tamiya's 1:48 Do-335. (Well, it is  better than OOB, ha? ) Hasegawa decals went well with Microsol solution.  I used Tamiya's X-22 for gloss coating and Humbrol's matt for finish.
 
This was entirely fun for me.  I completed the aircraft in 3 days...I hope you liked.
 
Best wishes from Turkey.. 
 
Reference: http://www.ww2aircraft.net 

Zafer Yilmaz

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