1/32 Hasegawa Messerschmitt

Bf-109 G-10

3./JG 51, East Prussia 1945

by Adam Bates

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Hello to you all!

This is the first time I have posted on ARC and I'm proud to be next to some great models.

Here is my Hasegawa Messerschmitt BF-109 G-10, this has taken me a while to build which has been an on and off project, but just recently I have had the time to finally complete this model.

She has been a trial and error model as my modelling experience is not great.  As I progressed with this model, I have found teaching myself, reading the forums, looking at real aircraft and at other peoples creations on how to do all the little fancy bits with weathering effects all the little cockpit details and mainly getting it put together to look something like a real aircraft which I have sometimes found not easy.

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I don't know much about the history of the Aircraft / Paint scheme I picked, but after looking about on the web found this website if anyone is interested; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdgeschwader_51 

I found that with this kit, it was the best choice for a beginner and also not currently owning an Airbrush to do the fancy camouflage effects that the other paint schemes may require.  The weathering on the underside of the aircraft was fairly easy to do, simply dry brushing or a small amount of thinners with paint on kitchen towels, I found this not to work as well on the top of the aircraft or I think it was me being scared of ruining the aircraft, but I will try other ideas and resort back to the forum.  I did a lot of work on the cockpit with the gauges seats etc and put the effects in but sadly didn't get any photos.

This was also a test for my new mobile phone camera with the macro lens, this is slightly random not using a fancy SLR or my normal digital camera but they have come out quite well!

If anyone has any creative comments please feel free to email me.

Hope you all like my best efforts and see you soon with my next model!

Adam

All the best from England

 

Photos and text © by Adam Bates