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Here it is, the finished Hasegawa Bf 109K-4. Matrixone

Bf 109G-2 Trop - Decals Ian, After again looking at the photograph you posted a few pages back of the 109 with the squiggles on the upper surfaces the wing crosses look a little bit thicker than the kit decals. Still, nice work being done on this one! :thumbsup Matrixone

Thanks Bob! The fuselage halves are joined together and am getting ready to paint the tires, I never mask off the tires from the wheel hubs and airbrush them like I do on most model parts, hand brushing the tires works the best here and gives them a slightly used look from the less than even...

Bf 109G-2 Trop - Decals Nice work on the decals Ian! After looking at your pictures the upper wing crosses look too narrow or slightly undersized, did the kit get it wrong or did the particular aircraft you are modeling have non-regulation markings? This is something I have seen on other 109's...

Thanks guys! It will be a little while before I attempt more armor but when I do its going to be the 1/48 scale Tamiya KT. Matrixone

All four models are nice, I like the Gigant Tractor...I can see uses for such a vehicle on my photobase. Matrixone

Some in-progress pictures... Much of what little detail painting of these parts are going to get is now finished, the fuselage halves can now be glued together. Below is an older color photograph that for years many researchers thought was a Me 262 still in its original colors, I first...

Thank you Ian, I try! Mike, I found another picture of W.Nr.110306, even though its black and white this is one I can't recall being in any of my reference books so I thought you might want to see it. BTW, when this machine was still in Germany just after the war ended the black paint was still...

Those are really nicely done! And I like the low camera angle too. :good Matrixone

Thanks ausf! When I can I prefer to add something interesting to my finished model pictures, some dirt from the tracks has been done for ages in dioramas but nobody that I know of has done it in a studio setting. Matrixone

Bf 109G-2 Trop - Pin Wash Nice work Ian, I like the surface detail on that kit and the pin wash shows it off quite nicely. Matrixone

Tanks, oops I mean thanks for your comments! :notworthy: Matrixone

Mike, RLM 81 was intended to be a brown color shade and as it relates to the Me 262 it usually was. There are three reasonably good wartime color photographs that show this to be true. But, and I mean a big BUT, RLM 81 was also identified as an olive shade similar to U.S. Olive Drab and older...

This model was finished days ago and I had to wait for the weather to settle down before I could get these pictures. The Panther was not washed before being driven onto my photobase but at least it made it there even if it was messy. ;) Here are the rest of the snaps. and a few when...

Nearly all Me 262's were built with the Junkers engine but there was at least one built with the BMW 003 for test purposes and that's the version that I would like to add to my collection and AFAIK only HobbyBoss makes a 1/48 scale model of this variant. Matrixone

Thanks! No more markings for this one, nothing is going to help it and I will go ahead and start final assembly after the oil paint pin wash is on the model. Matrixone

Good start on this one, and the varnished wood effect on the parts is great. Matrixone

Bob, Most panel lines on the fuselage and wings on the Me 262 were filled with a metallic colored paste and filed and sanded smooth. Some artists illustrations in older Me 262 reference books have the filler putty a tan or wood color and this is incorrect, the filler putty was made to match bare...

Those Trimaster Me 262's look very good when finished but I have read some horror stories about how they are to build. I have a Dragon Me 262 (the recon version) and it looks perfectly good to me. One concern I have with the Trimaster/Dragon Me 262 kits is the 'rubber' tires the include, I...

No, this little model was not forgotten, putting the final touches on the Bf 109K-4 and Panther kept my busy. Just like the RC airplane hobby the last 10% of a build often takes 90% of the time or at least feels like it. :hmmm Anyway, the Dinah trainer is up on its gear legs and some paint...