AE Build3: Academy BF109D Werner Molders in Spain*COMPLETE*

[Chris]

Academy BF 109D 1/48


This is an excellent kit that include a nice cockpit and excellent Condor Legion decals as well as some early German markings as well.







Pappy Molders was probably the greatest early war German ace, becoming one over the skies of Spain while flying in the Condor Legion. I will be building his aircraft from that time period.

[Chris]

The cockpit is assembled and painted, the seat belts are molded on the seat



Fuselage is joined next


Wings are next


the prop and nose are attached


The wing are attached and set aside to dry overnight

[TimJ]

Off to a good start.

[Chris]

The flaps are added as well as the front air scoup, some putty was needed, and the botton is painted German lt Blue.

[Chris]

Disaster struck with this, I loaded up some mr color Japanese graygreen in my airbrush , as this color looks like the color the Germans used. Added some flow medium and nothing happened!

Opening the cup I realized that the paint was ENAMEL not acrylic as I thought (The label is entirely Japanese, and when I brought it from China the add said acrlic!). The paint had turned into gunk and clogged the entire damn thing!! I had to strip it, run thinner and gum terpnine through it several times to clear it, then mixed the proper flow medium for enamels and paint the plane, an extra hours work added.

[Chris]

The nose and prop painted, the canopy painted and added, decals applied and sealed, tailplanes painted and add



Just need to attach the landing gear which is already painted and add some weathering and this guy is done.

[K5083]

Very nice! 109s never looked better than in that Spanish paint scheme.

August

[Chris]

Wheels added, some detail and weathering done. Unfortunetly I lost the wing thingies and radio mast and will have to fake them, but she is 99% complete

[MarkyM607]

Is 'wing thingies' a top grade technical term??

[Chris]

The memory card in my camera malfunctioned and I lost a bunch of pics, but the jub is done.



Yes I know the antenna wire should be straight, I will fix it some other time.