The subject of this build is the Airfix 1/24 kit of the 109E, and older kit that had some prelim painting done by the pervious owner. It was not too bad so I don't have to clean the paint off by I will just go over it. I think all the parts are here but time will tell! The decals may have been useable but I didn't trust them and replaced them with a Tecmod set that includes painting masks.
I picked Von Werra's plane as he had a most interesting career. An early war ace he was shot down over Britain and managed to escape three times while in the UK, in 1941 he was shipped to Canada and jumped out of a moving train in zero degree weather and much snow on the ground and managed to cross the saint lawrence river and make his way to the USA, and from there into Mexico, south America, Portugal, Spain and then Germany.
He was the first German to complete the 'home run' of getting home after an escape, but worse for the British he was a highly intelligent officer who took careful observations of British interigation methods of which the Germans had no idea. This was devastating for future captures, and the germans themselves copied many of the British tactics.
Von Werra would be killed flying over the North Sea shortly after his marriage in late 1941.
