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;

Does not look bad at all.

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

They are drying up well, and seems to fall into panellines and such well.

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.

Now, I think I have previously said that I did not like the “Italian mottling” areas one bit. There will have to be a next time for this (no, I will not sand it down and start over – it will be another plane, but that only brings me closer to 109 109s)

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.

I bought a lot of AM products, and these have been used here and there. One of the most interesting ones are the open hatches options – small details that bring out a more living presentation I think.

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.