Thank you Mike!
Because of the crappy weather the past few weeks I have not had a chance to get pictures of the finished 1/48 scale Bf 109K-4 but that is expected to change in the next few days.
I had so much fun with the 1/48 scale K-4 I decided to increase the fun level and build a 1/32 scale K-4 next. Since I already had my Bf 109K-4 reference books out why not just build another one? Makes perfect sense to me!
This will be a speed build and these large scale Hasegawa kits are so easy to put together they make for a nice looking model even if thrown together in a short amount of time.
On a 109 not a whole lot of cockpit detail will be seen on the finished model but I still added some detail painting with the airbrush...to add some depth to the molded in detail of the cockpit parts I did some painting in black first before spraying on the RLM 66 black-gray, the RLM 66 was sprayed on the fuselage sides and I.P. by holding the airbrush at a low angle being careful to leave some of the black in the areas that would normally be in shadow.
Here is a picture of the I.P. that shows the forced shadow effect I wanted to achieve, it looks a little like the part had some sun fading of the paint.
The rest of the cockpit was pre-shaded with black first before spraying the RLM 66 on it. It looks rough now but after some detail painting it will look much better.
Here are some of the other parts after some work was done on them.
The high gloss black spinner will need to be painted again...this was painted before I decided which markings I was going to put on this model and the one I chose has a 2/3 RLM 70 and 1/3 white painted spinner. :facepalm
The landing gear legs are painted and much of the weathering has been done on them.
The wings and flaps are put together and just need sanding the seam lines down to get them ready for paint.
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