Crimea_River
Marshal
As I'm now nearing completion of my FAA Corsair for Pacific Theater GB and because I don't have a candidate available for the Seaplanes build, I thought that I would take this opportunity to finish a build I started a couple of summers ago. The model is the 1/48 Hasegawa Bf 109G-6 "Eyeball" kit and all that I have done so far is to glue the fuselage halves together and stick the radiators into the wings.
The model will be supplemented with a resin cockpit set (I don't remember the manufacturer) and my usual scratch built stuff here and there. For a subject, I wanted to push the envelope a bit to challenge my airbrushing skills so I'm choosing the 109G-6 "Yellow 1" of 3/JG300 flown by Manfred Dieterle as it appeared in photos taken at Bonn-Hangelar in March/April 1944 and as depicted by Claes Sundin's profile below.
As you can see, the paint work should be somewhat entertaining. The other interesting thing about this aircraft is that it features a set of Eberspächer acoustic pipes over the forward exhaust stubs. These contraptions created a whistling sound that was used to alert German AA crews of the presence of a friendly aircraft. Good pictures of these things are as rare as hen's teeth (the port one can be seen, just, in the close-up picture above) so if anyone has any decent reference pics or drawings, I'd appreciate seeing them. I'm aware that photo-etched versions are available but they don't look right to me. There should be a ball mounted in an extension of the forward exhaust stub and PE, being flat, sure doesn't do a good job of replicating a ball so I'll be scratch building a set along with the flame damping tubes.
One of our local contests has a special award for night fighters so I'm targeting to have this build finished in time for this in September. I should get at this reasonably soon and hope that I'll be able to get it done between a lot of other stuff going on this summer.
Thanks for your interest guys and, as always, I welcome any and all information to enhance the accuracy of my builds so please don't hesitate to chime in with anything interesting.
The model will be supplemented with a resin cockpit set (I don't remember the manufacturer) and my usual scratch built stuff here and there. For a subject, I wanted to push the envelope a bit to challenge my airbrushing skills so I'm choosing the 109G-6 "Yellow 1" of 3/JG300 flown by Manfred Dieterle as it appeared in photos taken at Bonn-Hangelar in March/April 1944 and as depicted by Claes Sundin's profile below.
As you can see, the paint work should be somewhat entertaining. The other interesting thing about this aircraft is that it features a set of Eberspächer acoustic pipes over the forward exhaust stubs. These contraptions created a whistling sound that was used to alert German AA crews of the presence of a friendly aircraft. Good pictures of these things are as rare as hen's teeth (the port one can be seen, just, in the close-up picture above) so if anyone has any decent reference pics or drawings, I'd appreciate seeing them. I'm aware that photo-etched versions are available but they don't look right to me. There should be a ball mounted in an extension of the forward exhaust stub and PE, being flat, sure doesn't do a good job of replicating a ball so I'll be scratch building a set along with the flame damping tubes.
One of our local contests has a special award for night fighters so I'm targeting to have this build finished in time for this in September. I should get at this reasonably soon and hope that I'll be able to get it done between a lot of other stuff going on this summer.
Thanks for your interest guys and, as always, I welcome any and all information to enhance the accuracy of my builds so please don't hesitate to chime in with anything interesting.
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was thinking of doing this mount myself, it is a very interesting bird 
