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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