@kettbo: Thanks for the props on the format. I thought it might make a nice change, and placing the finished model right up front means that the phalanxes of builders out there whose stomachs turn at the thought of ANOTHER 109 can have a quick peek and leave right away. I do actually have plans for the castoff parts, but heading down that road means the law of diminishing returns applies ten-fold as I use up the decent parts. It's kinda funny, cause my projects have left me with tatty boxes stuffed with various and colorful castoffs like half a nose here, a rear fuselage there, mismatched wheel doors, and on and on. Half the fun is sifting through and making a pile of all the bits that 'could' be turned into another 109 someday. And yes, more pics of the finished model shall be forthcoming.
In the meantime...
I did up my own paper masks for the upper camo pattern and made a few photocopies for the 5,647 or so Bf109s I knew I was gonna build before I die.
Battened 'em down with worms of Tamiya tape.
Anchored under the wing so as to keep them a uniform distance from the model's surface where they wrap around the leading and trailing edges:
And shot straight down on them. Or as close to straight down as I could get. My gyros sometimes tend to develop a high-speed wobble...
Anyone spot the impending disaster?
Me neither. Rookie mistake. (Even AFTER I'd cut card stock to PREVENT this from happening! Merde!) That Simon: Nice guy, tries real hard. Kinda stupid.
Instead of being so lazy, I should have hard-masked the control surface hinge breaks.
But overall the wing camo looked good. Hey, maybe I AM getting better at this (said the bishop to the nun)!
Now see what you've done, Harrison? Check out the overspray on the side of that fuselage. (Meh. I still gotta mottle the thing, right?)
That panel in front of the windshield needs to stay grey. And so it shall.
And while you're there, don't get green camo on the cowl. Save that for mottling. Did I mention I HATE masking? It's tedious...
Something to my right must have caught my attention. What the hell is up with that swooping curve just forward of the fuselage band? I know, I'll cover it up with a decal...
And finally...
Voila! Mottled with my Badger double-action fine-tip airbrush. Let's not discuss the colors just yet. Let me bask in the warm glow of a clear-coated, workbench-fresh, sparkling-clean 109 model. (What a below-average photo...)
Here's a better shot: