Messerschmitt Bf 109
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Wolf-Udo Ettel is one of several lesser known fighter aces of the Luftwaffe. Achieving his Iron Cross in June 1943 after claiming his 120th victory in Russia. A few days later he was transferred to Italy, commanding 8./JG27, proceeding to [...]
The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a short, intense encounter that was a humanitarian disaster for the Royal Navy. In the early hours of May 24th 1941, the HMS Hood was sunk and with 1,418 souls on board, a staggering and scarcely [...]
Unfortunately, I made a mistake during the construction of the Me 109 F and fixed it and took new pictures. Kit: 132 Trumpeter
Best Regards
Hans Peter
This is Airfix's 1/48 BF-109E-4/7. It's a nice easy kit and fairly well detailed. (not as nice as Eduard's, but not as expensive, either!) The main issues were overly long landing gear legs, wrong canopy, prop could use replacing, and [...]
This is Eduard's excellent BF-109E-4 'overtree' with Eduard 'Zoom' photo etch, finished as Adolf Galland's aircraft, using 'Aeromaster' decals from their 'Galland special' sheet, and painted with Tamiya acrylic's, and weathered with oils [...]
Hi All! Here's my save of my very old Hasegawa BF-109. This kit is around for more than 30 (maybe 35?) years. I found it in my stash and as happened I wanted a quick and easy build. I had some very old aftermarked decals too so I thought [...]
The appearance of the Gustav series of Messerschmitt’s Bf-109 was due to the ineptness of the Luftwaffe high command in developing an acceptable production successor to the aging design, and reflected the lack of long-range planning on [...]
Limited edition/Dual combo EDUARD, 1/48 (#11114)
Pilot kapteeni Jaakko Poulakkainen Finland 1944.
Not my favorite WW2 plane, but for sure some of my best work as of lately. Build took suprisingly little time, about a week.
Have a video to go with these photos of the installed micro motor spinning the prop, but don't know how or where [...]
Another 109 to try my teeth on were yet another Eduard 1/48 kit. (the one in the background will be added later, as it was built a bit later, and more detail added)
Starting with Eduards fine cockpit with the etch from the [...]