**** DONE: 1/48 Bf109E-4/7 Trop - Mediterranean Theatre of Operations

[Lucky13]

Off to a nice start mate!

 

[Jeff Hunt]

Progress is being made at a slower than hoped for pace as life gets in the way sometimes.

The fuselage halves have been joined together as have the top and bottom wing sections. Test colours appear in photo of wing top and the mated fuselage/wing photo is dry fit only. Hope to make more progress this weekend.

Cheers.

Jeff

 

[Wurger]

Undoubtedly getting shape.

 

[Jeff Hunt]

Major components went together this morning. No fit issues to speak of and things will now end for the day as I have to get ready to head out to my brother-in-law's 50th birthday party.

Cheers,

Jeff

 

[Wurger]

Looking good.

Have fun there.

 

[chris brown]

Looking good!

 

[Crimea_River]

Agreed. Coming along nicely.

 

[Wayne Little]

Doing a good job Jeff!

 

[Jeff Hunt]

More progress to report. Started off giving the whole thing a spray of light blue followed by a first coat of desert yellow / red brown mix. I will be putting a second coat later. Olive green mottle to follow.

Cheers,

Jeff

 

[Wurger]

 

[JKim]

Good looking paint job on the Emil!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

It's coming along very nicely Jeff.

 

[Crimea_River]

Agreed.

 

[Catch22]

Great stuff Jeff!

 

[Jeff Hunt]

Latest update

Cheers,

jeff

 

[Wurger]

Looking good although these green spots seem to be a little bit too light.

 

[Jeff Hunt]

That is what I thought as well but was hoping for some confirmation before I addressed the issue.

Thanks for your input.

Jeff

 

[Wurger]

Here you are a couple of well-known pictures of JG27 kites in the North Africa, both colour and B&W ones. Please notice how well the green camo spots pretend the shadow of desert stones and small bushes seen on the ground.

 

[Wurger]

B&W images...

 

[Wurger]

And one more... quite small but showing tops of the White 3 of the JG27.