Recent content by southerndoug

Good on ya Ralph! Little chance of me beating you. Looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

Username: southerndoug First name: Doug Category: Intermediate Manufacturer: ICM Model: Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4 #48805 Scale: 1:48 Add-ons: Nil Here we go: I actually bought this for the figures, thinking I might like to use them in a diorama of some sort. I've got a few Bf109's in my...

Never done a normal GB! First attempt at a group-anything, which may make me build a bit quicker than I usually do...

ICM Bf 109 F-4

How to join in guys? Just start a thread with that title?

I have no doubt it will Grant! Thanks for the praise!

Believe it or not... it's finished. Tail plane finally on (supporting struts didn't fit too well). The cowling fit is atrocious, but removed displays a bit of the work I did on the engine. Some thinned black sprayed to cover the exhaust stains, minor chipping and scrapes with a silver-grey...

Just back-tracking to an earlier time in the build, when I was dry-fitting the dive brakes, and noticed that the locating pins are too close together compared with the holes in the wing for them. Result: bent dive brakes. I cut down one pin to allow them to sit parallel with the lower wing...

Time for some grime! I'm still very new to washes, and mucking about with oils I'm finding a bit tricky. Has been made more pleasurable by learning about odourless thinners! Pic below shows port wing underside done, in contrast to the pristine starboard wing: Apart from trying to highlight...

Gotta say Grant this hasn't been a mojo inspiring build. Lots of little annoyances including poor fit, strange placement of sprue attachment points, coupled with poor choices on my part and operator error... still, for my first ever Stuka, I think it might look ok! To the untrained eye... Been a...

Some Vallejo gloss coat, and into the decals.There are a lot of them... I opted for the printed decal walkways rather than the etch. Had a bit of trouble with Mr Mark Setter, which seemed to strip the gloss finish off: Applied some more gloss to cover the damage, followed by Vallejo...

Not happy with the chipping. Operator error I think, having sprayed it on a bit thick, so the "chips" were too big. Remasked and resprayed, and while I was at it, darkened up the RLM 70 edges a bit more, where I'd overdone the fading effect: ...I feel better about that! I've bought the...

Hey thanks Grant. Sorry you haven't had a chance to tackle a bit more. I gotta say I was struggling until I got some paint on... always makes me feel better about the project! I was ultimately pretty pleased with how the flaps came out, and it was nice being able to lower them a bit. But it was...

More work on the canopy join: Followed by my first attempt at pre-shading: And at last: some RLM 71: Masking: and some very grey looking RLM 70: I might need to revisit the RLM 70...

A bit of work cleaning up the cowling innards, and making the landing gear spats allow the wheels to come in after painting: