I have some SBS Decals in 1/48 for a couple of Spanish 109s. One is listed as a "109F" and is 3-color camo of green, gray, and brown on top of RLM 65. The other I think is the one I prefer, a 109F-4 in sand over RLM 78. I have an F-2 in the stash, but I need to look to see if I also have an F-4.

Decals

Having dried for 6 weeks I thought it might be time for some decals

But to my surprise the Valejo Gloss still feels greasy to the touch! I do not know what I might have done wrong, but suffice to say I will use another brand next time I spray Gloss.

Anyhow, I used eduard decals from the kit, and they are very thin. I feared that they might be transparent as there is a lot of whte amongst them.

Well – first you have the overall view;

The decals actually settled down well, but just to be sure they were brushed with “Sol”

And one last look before I let it dry overnight for some stencils and stuff tomorrow.

There will most likely be a post with stencils, and then some matt clear and the last details – stay tuned

This is such an interesting and very beautiful scheme, my friend @airbum!
Great result!

Thank you gents - a small update in a minute.

Regarding the F-4 stencils, it is to my strong belief, that there's no need for a hard or soft copy of F-4 technical manual, since all the manual is stencilled on the plane! -lol (Finished a Revell 1/32 Greek bird last January, used the Icarus Decals stencils...man, this has to be seen to be believed; I almost went nuts; and I didn't use all of them. This plane is FULL of stencils - anyway, I'm carried away now)

Your Italo Gustav looks wonderful from here, and I can sense the finish line is not that far away, my friend @airbum!

Matt on, masks off

With a layer of matt (flat) added it was finally time to get the masks off

Nasty surprice – I had used maskol in places, and with it in place for a month or three it had become more of a solid hard layer than a easily removeable rubber thing. Oh well, you can’t win them all.

Also there is some silvering, and it has to be a lesson learned to give the models a good even layer of gloss clear before committing to decals. Noted.

The hood is only placed loosely, and actually it tight-fits OK, so perhaps it will stay that way. After all a model is not supposed to be lifted and handled, is it?

Now it will be touch-ups and details, you will have to tune in to see if any updates follow this one or it will be just a final reveal. Feel free to comment

Another beauty nearing completion, Erik @airbum.
109's never are boring.
Nice to see the mottling on the wings.

Those details. . .

More details are to be added

With the ambition I set out with almost two years ago, there is still a lot of details to be added to this one before it can be called finished – and as it was one of my first builds in this round of building models the bar was set a bit high.

That does not stop me from continuing, as it is a great learning experience, and a way to improve my skills as time flies.

Thank you for the encouraging comments @fiveten, @JohnB and @gblair. Up close it is not all so nice, the grey areas are a bit too not-scale and the patches of olive should be smaller but you know what – it is a great way to improve, and I love all the small steps.