Some serious painting there, my friend @airbum! Yes, LqS does at cases sink...🙁
Looking forward to your progress!

LqS = Liquified Styrene. I have a description in my 109-werke topic:

https://imodeler.com/groups/work-in-progress-aircraft/forum/topic/messerschmitt-bf-109-werke/?topic_page=4&num=15

Sometimes people prefer to use Spruegoo - where you use glue and a paintbrust to draw molten sprue onto the area in need of treatment. I also think I saw it in tools and tricks?

I guess you are seeing red and lots of it, Erik @airbum. I have used various shades of pink as primer for red and particularly yellow finishes as well as other color primers to enhance final finish colors with great success. Painting car models taught me that.

I’ve been eyeing the new tool Eduard Bf 109K-4. Have you checked it out yet?

@airbum
Erik, hope you don’t mind me asking but why you chose to mix shades of red to get that specific finish?
From the photo is looks very much like the Ferrari red from Vallejo. And I’ve always assumed Udet machine was in RLM 23 but I bet you have more info on this. Thanks!

Thank you all for great comments and info - these make all the difference and is why it is a real joy to be posting here - keep them coming!

Pedro @holzhamer, I do not mind at all - on the contrary. As far as I know it has never been established what the color was, but as the red is carried on from his WWI planes, I do doubt it is a RLM color. I find the 23-shade a bit too bright, but nevertheless it will be used on the tail for the markings, and from the pictures I have seen there is a difference between that red and the overall red. In earlier days some modellers even interpreted the b/w pictures as being Messerschmitt blue, just like the Taifun! Eric @eb801, you are completely right - it was a case of "get-there-itis" and I simply put on a way too thick layer. Several rounds of thin would have worked better, but seeing red, I seem to have lost my patience! Hope I learned the lesson? Probably not, but I may have to make a note in the spraybooth..

Now - the Kürfyrst will indeed be in my sights, and I did put it in the basket when they had a 25% off and bundle offer in their online shop, but alas - wanted more and got there too late. The overtrees were sold out, so now I will wait (probably) for the next time there is a sale. Not sure I can wait though.

Thanks again for being very constructive!

Looking excellent from here, my friend @airbum!

I love the red color, Erik (@airbum), but it is hard to get white decals to cover the dark color. I think the red is a great choice.

Thanks for the comments @fiveten, @bikequeen, @gblair and @johnb. More decals.

Decals done?

I have added most of the decals

As mentioned earlier, these decals are on very thin full-sheet decalpaper and printed very thick. When you take this into consideration they are actually easy to get on the plane. And they will even tolerate some positioning if you add a drop of “set” before offering them to the plane.

Overall impression

the carrier film sticks nicely to the gloss surface

And now it will have to be completely dry before a layer of gloss (semi-gloss?), and then it is go for detail painting and adding wheels and such