1/48 Messerschmitt BF109 G6 (Eduard)

That seat is very nicely done.

Great build Wouts, do like the shape of these planes

Beautiful build! I always loved the ominous look of the G-6 with those breech bumps on the nose.

I'm glad to have you gents in the 109 factory. I can use all the help I need

Progress and a problem I'm facing. But first, the progress.
In the past when I painted my first wingy I used the preshading method to create fake shadows underneath the paintwork. Recently I came across a technique called 'black basing'. It's there for years it seems and after watching some youtube videos I thought this was worth a try.
So basically on top of the black primer you paint very diluted light paint blotches and lines in order to get a much more interesting mottled paint finish in stead of a uniform opaque layer.
For each camouflage area I used different paints. Basically diluted white and white mixed with the color which was going to be on top.


This sure looks interesting and peculiar indeed.

Before I started with the basecolors I took another photo of the cockpit before I added the canopy. I'm depicting the 109 with a closed canopy, because I think that shows the great line of the plane. Often models of planes are depicted with the canopy open, and while that makes a lot of sense (interior clearly visible), I didn't want to go that way.

Now then, the basecoat was Gunze RLM76 Hell Grau (light blue). I diluted this with my usual Mr. Levelling Thinner 400. Of course I tried to add thin layers in order to keep some of the effects of the black basing. The effect is very subtle.


This particular plane had the wingtips on the underside colored yellow, together with black and yellow band on it's tail. The areas which needed to be yellow were masked and first sprayed white.

Followed by an application of RLM04 Yellow (Gunze)


Meanwhile I've had a 'OH NO!' moment. The wheel wheels were sprayed before applying the basecolors, and I masked the wheel wells with blu-tack. When I removed them....well, I won't remove easily...this is quite frustrating... not sure how I can remove all of the residu in the wheel wells. So lesson learned: never EVER use blu tack for this! Any thoughts or suggestions on this

Thanks for the tip chap, I reckon these are quite similar to the masking putty which arrived to me today and which I used on the Panther. A lot better than the blu tack. The blu tack is binned by now...can't understand how people used that succesfully in the past.

Wouts this technique looks very effective, I might even try this myself .

As for the blu-tack misfortune, well I have had similar happen to me also.
I found that if I used some new blu-tack, stuff that hasn't been used on models before, I could push
small pieces onto that which was left on the model and use it to pull the offending left overs off.
You need to be patient with it and use some blunt tweezers, to help you get into the depths of the model.
Hope it helps ole chap.


Tommy, if you mean me, then I'm afraid your wrong there fella.
I have never used silly putty, or panzer putty, or that which you have shown

I've used Silly Putty a lot! I found it works excellent; can be re-used extensively and does not ever leave a residue on any of my models. I still have a huge ball of about seven or eight egg's worth of Silly Putty all in one l'eggs Egg. I have used that on at least 20+ models both armor and aircraft and it is still going strong. Personally, I've never understood people's preference for Blu Tack over Silly Putty; I've always heard people have had far more issues with Blu Tack.

I have used the liquid stuff from VMS, that is true .

Edit:
Yep, you're right Boots. I just re-read what Tommy posted, my mistake there.
Although, if Tommy isn't mad then he doesn't belong here

Wouts, the -109 looks superb! Sorry about the wheel bays. Can you use other blobs of blue tack or some other medium to "grab" the blobs that are in there?