As promised, here are the pictures of todays progress on Weiss 43.
I'm using MRP paints on this one, and I like how they spray. They are pre mixed, ready to go. It takes several light coats but the coverage is good afterwards.

I started out by spraying the model in overall RLM 76.

I also sprayed the outer side of the landing gear doors, and the exhaust shrouds.

Next I sprayed the landing gear wells in RLM 02. I also installed the exhausts at this time.

The inside of the main landing gear legs were also sprayed using RLM 02 at this time. Once it dried, which was in no time flat, (as this MRP stuff dries incredibly fast), I added some "Ultra Bright Chrome" Bare Metal Foil on the oleo strut portion of the landing gear.

Finally, I glued the main gear in place.

Now "Weiss 43" can stand on it's own two feet.

Tomorrow I hope to start painting on the other things, like how the wing root area is done in black. I might even start trying to make some homemade number masks, since I was not able to locate the proper style font numbers in my Luftwaffe decal sheets.

As always, comments are encouraged.
Thanks for stopping by.

Nice progress, my friend @lgardner and really great looks!

George, @gblair
Thanks for the compliments, and I am happy with the progress with this build speed on this one. It seems that these Hasegawa 109's and especially the Tamiya ones build up very quickly.

Yes Sir, I am also very pleased with how the MRP paint sprays and performs. It dries quickly, and it has a nice semi gloss type sheen to it once it's dry, (with this color anyhow). The color I used is called "Blaugrun" Late War RLM 76 variant, part number MRP-181.

Thank Spiros @fiveten
You are rocking your 109 builds too. By the time I get done typing my response, you will likely be finished with yours. You are SO close to having it completed and it looks fantastic.

Thank you John. @johnb
I am very impressed with the latest postings you made on your Tamiya Bf-109E. The cockpit, (and especially the seat harness), looks incredible.

Your hand painting results look really nice from here, my friend @lgardner. Your airbrushing touch up will make things perfect!

Spiros, @fiveten
John, @johnb
Thanks gentlemen for the kind words. Today I managed to get some work done on this one. I had some errands to run so my bench time was limited. Here are some pictures along with a short description.

I didn't take any photos of the touch up work along the exhaust panels. However these areas were successfully touched up.

I located these pictures online at various places. Falke Eins was one of them, and there are a lot of great Luftwaffe subjects to browse through there. This particular Bf-109G plane I'm building was numbered "Weiss 43".

The numbers "4" and the "3" on the fuselage sides were not your standard Luftwaffe style fonts. I'm guessing here, they "could" have been brush painted on by hand. I went through all of the decal numbers I had in the decal stash, but I didn't have anything that would look proper.

So I came up with an idea... I'll just make some homemade masks and try to spray them on. Brilliant !
I took one of the pictures that was taken from almost a dead on side view, and enlarged it enough so that I could pick out the minor differences. The numbers look to be very similar on each side of the fuselage.

Then I took some fine edge masking tape and laid out two layers on a glass surface. After some quality time with a machinist's steel ruler, a micrometer, a 6 inch metal straight edge, and a brand new #11 razor blade in the trusty exacto knife, I went to work.

After a little while, I had something that looked like this. Presto !

I knew if I didn't mask more of the airframe off it would all end up being covered in a fine white over spray. Now the 109 looked like this:

The next step was to mix up some white paint and carefully spray the masks. Here is how it looked at this point.


Like a little kid on Christmas morning, I removed the masks once the paint had dried enough. What appeared next was OK. Not perfect by any means, but a good place to start from especially when I didn't have the correct decals.

I zoomed in on another picture, and I might have accidentally stumbled across something. To me, it looks as if the Cross that was under each wing "could" have been the Late War "simplified" style using only one color paint. This case it would have liekly been a Black color. I can't see anything around the outer edges that appear lighter, and possibly indicating a white border you typically find here.

Now emboldened by the recent success, and knowing how easy it was to make some masks for the German National insignias, or "Balkencruz", I tempted fate once more and decided to make a set of masks for the insignia under the wings.

This is what I ended up with, and how it looked after spraying. I really went crazy here, as I didn't mask everything off for fear of breaking off the aileron counter balances and the under wing mounted Morane mast.

One of the underwing crosses is not exactly perfect, but I can do a little touch up work and it should be good to go.
Once the home made masks were carefully removed, this is how the G-10 looked. I got VERY lucky, as no Black paint ended up where it shouldn't have. I think by reducing the air pressure, it also helped cut down the over spray.

I'll leave you with this final picture tonight. It shows both of the "simplified" Late War under wing crosses.

Now I have to add the Swastika on the fin, and somehow cobble together a Werke Number. Then I will work on the spiral for the spinner, getting closer to completion with each completed task.

As always, comments are encouraged.

Very nice result, Louis@lgardner
You made a good choice to spray those markings instead of using decals.
It looks much better this way.

Nice step , my friend @lgardner! I like your approach with the werke number.
All looking great!