1/48 Hasegawa Bf-109 F4

Winter scheme

by Juan Manuel Villegas Castro

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The kit is Hasegawa´s Bf-109 F4 in 1/48 scale, with a few modifications in the radiator intakes, seatbelts and the hydraulic lines in the landing gear struts.  Ailerons, rudder and elevators were cut off and replaced with spare resin parts from a Verlinden kit.

Overall painting was done without painting the original camouflage first (as is usual), just a pre-shading with black over the panel lines and the white paint over it.

Once the paint is dry, I decolored the white color using oil colors first and Vallejo acrylic colors later over the panel lines, stripping off the white paint in the areas where I think the ground crew work in the maintenance of the aircraft.

Undersurfaces, cockpit and other pieces were painted in the usual luftwaffe colors.  All colors are from Tamiya acrylic paints, except Oil colours and Vallejo acrylics.

Last step was done with a colour pencil, riveting the upper surfaces with a grey color.

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Decals came from the kit, except the black eights, painted using masks, cut from Tamiya masking tape.

Finally I built a little snow covered terrain with two figures from a Verlinden maintenance crew, one work table  and three barrels also from Verlinden.

 

Hope you like it!

Juan

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Photos and text © by Juan Manuel Villegas Castro