Bf-109 Legion Condor

[Mike Swan]

Here's my Tamiya 1/48 Bf-109 E3 flown by Hans Schmoller-Haldy in Spain.

There's much debate about the top colour, green or grey. I chose green purely because it looked good.

Mike

[Mike Swan]

One more

[Woolgar]

Great work Mike ! You have applied those decals really well, what is your secret ? They are my downfall, I use micro sol and set but I am still missing something

Nick

[Mike Swan]

Thanks Nick.

Most important is a smooth, glossy base. I use Johnson's Long Life floor polish sprayed neat. I believe it's called Future in your part of the world.

Also, I use Gunze's Mr Mark Softener. It's very powerful and may damage some delicate decals although I've never had a problem.

Leave the decals at least 12 hours to fully dry, gently wash away traces of setting solution and then spray another coat of Future.

Regards, Mike.

[Woolgar]

Thanks Nick.

Most important is a smooth, glossy base. I use Johnson's Long Life floor polish sprayed neat. I believe it's called Future in your part of the world.

Also, I use Gunze's Mr Mark Softener. It's very powerful and may damage some delicate decals although I've never had a problem.

Leave the decals at least 12 hours to fully dry, gently wash away traces of setting solution and then spray another coat of Future.

Regards, Mike.

Thanks for your advice Mike

Nick

[AndyC]

Great modell, Tamiya is my favorite model maker
And you have done a very well job here


Andy

[jacquesf]

Nice model and interesting subject. Jacques

[JeremyJ]

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Very well done!!


Jeremy

[rtvmodeler]

Nice bird friend!

Regards,
Rodolfo

[Mike Swan]

The kind comments are greatly appreciated.

Mike

[Bryant U.]

Beautiful model Mike thanks for sharing.

-Bryant

[U534]

Verry nice model!

[me6_130]

The colour was grey. A very light grey. Under that there was a green primer. I know it because I had one in my hands

Carles

[Mike Swan]

Carles,

I like your diorama and display.

I tend to agree with you about the camouflage being RLM02 grey or similar. A few sources reckon it was Green 62, including author and researcher Ken Merrick. This is the problem trying to interpret old black & white photos. In some photos, the top colour looks very dark.

I painted the model green as it looked attractive.

You mention a green primer. Is there a chance this is the original Luftwaffe colours, 70 and 71?

Mike

[me6_130]

Hello Mike, the good thing is I didn't interpret any photo. I just had to clean some metal parts that still had some paint. Perhaps along the SCW colours changed, I don't know, but the last batch of Messers 109 that arrived in Spain late 1938 were this light grey. The numbers went up to 6-131, so 6-130 was one of the latest, I guess your 6-123 was in the same lot, as they were all E-3s.

Carles