**** DONE: 1/48 Bf109F-4 J.Steinhoff - Your Favorite Aircraft of All Time GB

[ozhawk40]

Those ICMs present some 'interesting' fit challenges don't they! Still, starting to look very good Andy, I'm looking forward to the paint.

Cheers

Peter

 

[Crimea_River]

Cheers Peter.

 

[A4K]

Thanks Wojtek, Wayne, means a lot to me.

As I always like to learn something, I have a question: I've often heard about peculiarities of paint work by certain factories. This plane, WNr 13144, would have been produced in early '42 at Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke. Would there be a factory-distinguishing feature of the camouflage?

Could well believe it Andy. I also only have photos of a WNF 'G' in 'typical scheme for the factory', only pic of WNF F's is in production sans paint.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks Evan, appreciate you looking.

Here are 5 shots of the model as it looks today, much of the work having been spent this weekend on sanding and scribing. An initial spray of primer has gone on the joints to look for defects of which there are a few.

Overall shot:

The underside. The oil cooler flap was opened up and the panel line that runs down the centerline between the radiators was moved as it was molded about 1.5mm off center. There's a little nick at the back of that line that needs to be cleaned up and yiou can still see a bit of the original line at the front. (I didn't see it before this picture was taken!)

Upper panel lines rescribed after sanding. Turned out OK.

Port wing joint scribed line needs a little work as it came out uneven.

The starboard joint - much better.

Thanks for looking guys.

 

[Wurger]

Looking good.

 

[fubar57]

Great stuff Andy.

Geo

 

[Airframes]

Nice work Andy, looking forward to the paint going on - should be a good one.

 

[Gnomey]

Coming along nicely Andy!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Nice touches Andy.

 

[Crimea_River]

Cheers guys. Tonight I touched up those scribe lines I spoke of above and will rescribe tomorrow. Pics then.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

That looks real nice Andy. My patience is what hinders me at the moment. Working on that though.

 

[rochie]

great job Andy

 

[Wayne Little]

Doing great Andy...still looking to nail that WNF pattern for you...

 

[Crimea_River]

Cheers Wayne. Don't strain yourself now.

 

[T Bolt]

Looks beautiful Andy

 

[meatloaf109]

You are doing some fine work!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks guys. Unfortunatley nothing to show since last time.

I'll be away from this project for about 10 days as I'll be travelling to visit family in the Toronto area so no updates till about the 15th. See you then.

 

[Airframes]

Have a good trip Andy.

 

[rochie]

good trip Andy

 

[woody]

Real nice.