I needed a break from my usual forays into 1/35 Cold War Armour, and decided that I would tackle some of those aircraft kits from my childhood, but bring them up to spec; that is, really regarding finish. The oversized rivets, poor seams, poor fit even, could all stay, yet I would complete them as I’d wished I’d been able so to do when I was a kid. So, not much airbrushing, and I’ve taken the kits at face value, so markings, colour schemes etc will all reflect the period they hail from.
So, a palate-cleanser if you like, but it was actually great fun, and even relaxing, for example, making a kit which say, only had around 20 parts. Anyway, first off, the Airifx Me 109G:
and the Frog Spitfire (which was going to be my entry for a campaign, but as ever, sort of withered on the vine) however, here it is now, just about complete though I wanted to add at least one more figure. We’ll see:
Well said … the models I built as a kid would be Frankensteins now lol … I enjoyed my 1/48 Spit that I did for that Spitfire campaign was a nice reminder of the old kits I built …You may have pushed me into looking for a 109 now …
I’m aware that the tail marking is spurious but can anyone point the way to a more accurate rendition of the painted camouflage. I recall that when I first tackled the kit (c.1964) the instructions would have you just paint light blue lines over the base plastic colour, which back then was a sort of khaki drab. Is there anything similar, and authentic, which I could apply to this model? I’m sort of keen to get the best from it, though purely in a nostalgic way, so rivets will remain, poor fit will stay, but I’d like the colour scheme to at least reflect what is on the box up to a point. I believe the wing and tailplane schemes would probably have consisted of a splinter pattern.
Over to any Luftwaffe experts who may have some ideas.
