1/48 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Bf-109F-2

"Trautloft

by Pavel Hrnčíř

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This Messerschmitt Bf109F-2 became the first German airplane in my collection. I chose the kit from Hasegawa made as a limited edition for a plane of JG 54 Kommodore Major Hannes Trautloft. The kit corresponds to standards of the manufacturer and it is good to use Eduard’s set 48 354 to ginger it up.

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Assembly ran relatively quickly, but painting and marking noticeably slower because of doing patterns for airbrushing, working with them and big number of decals.

There are speculations about colors used on the planes of JG 54 but I decided to believe the Hasegawa instruction list and used GSI C18, C60 and C117 as RLM70, RLM02 and RLM76.  Marking corresponds to winter 1941/42 when Stab/JG54 was based at Siverskaja in Russia .

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Valuable information can be found in the following literature:

  • 1/ Monografie lotnicze no.43, no.45, no.49
  • 2/ A Schiffer military history book Messerschmitt Bf109F, G & K series
  • 3/ Monogram Close-Up no.9 Bf109F
  • 4/ Osprey Aviation Elite Jagdgeschwader 54 “Grunherz”

Pavel 

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Photos and text © by Pavel Hrnčíř