Hello to all !
What a nice idea to build some of the hidden heroes that hiddes under the cowlings of our models majority .
Sometimes we try to expose as much of them as we can , and sometimes we close them into darkness for ever .
So , here is my effort about one of my favorites , the powerplant for the Bf 109G series , and in particular the engine (and spinner) of the Bf 109G-5/AS with W. Nr.110064 which was flying by Oberstleutnant Günther Specht , one of the best fighter leaders during the war , credited with 34 enemy aircraft destroyed including 15 four-engine bombers .
On the photos you can take a general idea about this really nice kit , and the color scheme of the spinner (black green , 1/3 white with two different in thickness yellow stripes around and vice versa spinner plate , I will explain at a later time what I mean ) .
This build is also starting after my return from two months of vacations and is the one to gives me a good start to continue my other projects .

More datails for the kit here : http://shop.hphmodels.cz/en/model-kits-in-scale-118/66-motor-bf-109g-6-db-605-v-meritku-118.html

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Spiros , those are for you . If you need something specific, tell me or send a message.

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The weekend is here , time for our hobby , so , back to bench !

One thing I reallize when I check better the parts of this kit , is although HPH have done a very good kit , the individual details suffered from "purity": the bolts, for example, are there (although not all) but their heads look like they are one with the rest of the piece, while they are also quite rounded instead of hexagons.

So the decision to upgrade by scratch-building what looked bad or wrong (and on this scale seems like a lot) was a one-way trip.

Using the UMM Hexagonal punch & die set (https://umm-usa.com/onlinestore/product_info.php?products_id=1870&osCsid=7893b4ba64b837ca265ff2337cea23c5) I cut and replace all (or almost all) the malformed bolts or I added where they were missing .

In some cases I use some micro bolts I have in stock from Knupfer (https://knupfer.info/shop/) .

Also I toned as much rivets as I can with drills .

The result is at least satisfactory and indeed makes quite a difference from the original , I hope you can see it in the photos .

In the meantime, I found some time to prepare - prime - sanding - painting and give some weathering , in a few words to finish the propeller with their spinner .

Following my reference photos plus everything I found on the internet about this airplane I concluded that the spinner whas painted with the standard black green (2/3) & white (1/3) having as an additional badge two yellow stripes, possibly as a reference to the pilot degree (Oberstleutnant) .

Looking better, it looks like the stripes have different widths , and the guns adjustment plate (essentially the base of the spinner , just in front of the coolant container or simple , the back plate) is painted white where the spinner is green and green where the spinner is white .

Nothing so difficult to achieve with some masking tape and with colors from Gunze range .

So far , so good , next stage is primer & painting the other parts , at the same time as upgrading and/or scratching some more parts .

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I am really amazed by your skills and your attention to details, my friend @faraomike!
Looking fantastic so far!

Indeed Erik , its size is equivalent to a Bf 109 in 1/72 !

Absolutely gorgeous work, my friend @faraomike!
I could swear the two gloss black valve covers are 1:1...

Precisely because of the large scale , all those sub-assemblies they need a lot of attention in the preparation because in the final result everything will be seen. Hence the delay of the presentation, but this weekend I will have a good update ...

You are doing an exceptional job there, my friend @faraomike!
The items built from scratch are simply wonderful!