Messerschmitt Bf 109
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With no intend to compare plastics, both are great and with potential to make great litle replicas.
The T2 was the 109 designed to fly from the decks of the Graf Zepplin. The T2 was a variant of of the E3/4 but with a longer wingspan, to aid taking off from the shorter deck.
Although the T2 was never used from the deck of a carrier, [...]
The Airplane:
Developed from the V10 and V13 prototypes,the Bf-109D was the last model of the Jumo powered 109s to enter service and it was built in larger numbers than the previous three subtypes combined. The Bf 109D was the standard [...]
The Airplane:
The Bf-109E-3 was the first sub-type of Messerschmitt’s fighter to receive the DB 601 engine. Ourside of the powerplant and cooling system, which included radiators under each inboard wing, the airframe of the Bf-109E-3 was [...]
Hi all.
Here is my latest completed model:
Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4/B - Eduard Profipack 1/48 model. Mounted from the Box.
This aircraft coded V-+07 was piloted by Sgt Dezsö Szentgyörgyi of the 1/1 fighter squadron of the Royal Hungarian [...]
Starfix kit from the starfix challenge - IE to build it using basic tools and paints only.
The most innacurate kit I've ever built, wildly inaccurate and in some cases, pure fiction.
Fictional markings, but camo and colours authentic. First ever go at mottling, its not great, but its not as bad as i expected it to be.
Sorry for the bad photos.
One who was also known is Captain Günther Rall with 275 kills, he was the third pilot in the German Air Force alongside Erich Hartmann and Gerhard Barkhorn. The model represents the kills of the morning of October 15, 1943 222-224. The [...]
On the "Wilde Sau" night fighting operation
If one deals with the air war over Germany at night, one soon claims terms such as "light" and "dark night fighter", "sky bed" or "tame" and [...]
You know the problem of those never finished box-queens, kits that you start and then put back in the box and forget about? They beckon you every time you open your stash, yet you just ignore them and go for a virgin kit. Well, I have a [...]