1/48 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Bf 109F4/Trop

Gallery Article by Marcin Czarnowicz on Apr 23 2012

 

 

Hi, it is my first time on display here. I would like to share with you with my most recently finished model. I've done Hasegawa's Bf 109F4/Trop. Model was done OOB. The only aftermarket items used were seat belts and decals.

 

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I didn't want to turn this beautiful Hasegawa's piece of plastic into another Marseille's Yellow 14, but I definitely wanted to build a desert "Augsburg Eagle".  I found a very nice selection of decals in the Kagero's miniTOPCOLORS21.  This is a very nice bucklet with a large decal sheet for non Marseille's birds.  I decided to make a yellow 1+ - belonging to Ruddi Sinner from 6./JG26.

I want to have a worn first line fighter so a put a lot of effort to weathering.  All chipping was made with AK worn effect liquid.  Smoke is  a mix of black with flat clear.  At the end I dusted it a little bit with a mix of AK's Africa Dust and some pigments.

Marcin Czarnowicz

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Photos and text © by Marcin Czarnowicz