...I'm going to do it as a warbird/what-if scheme:
This is one of my all-time favourite '109 colour schemes. The aircraft is Buchon G-BOML, another of the taxiing airframes used in Spain for scenes in Battle of Britain. G-BOML ended up being acquired by British engineer and aircraft enthusiast Nick Grace, and was restored just in time to join two more Buchons for the filming of Piece of Cake in 1988. A year later, following acquisition from Nick's estate by the Old Flying Machine Company, G-BOML and her two co-stars were again in front of the cameras for the filming of Memphis Belle, and the year after that 'BOML appeared in another paint scheme in the Battle of Britain-set ITV drama A Perfect Hero, alongside her Cake co-stars, Spitfire IXs MH434 and ML417. The trio later appeared in piece specially filmed for a flight simulator at Duxford, which I believe is still there!
G-BOML wore a variety of colours over the years for film and airshow work, until a landing accident in 1994 saw her being rebuilt to fly again, doing so in 1998 in the above paint scheme. I first saw the aircraft fly in those colours at East Fortune that year, being flown by Mark Hanna in a dogfight routine with his father Ray - some of the best airshow flying I have ever seen. Ever.
Sadly, Mark and the Buchon were to meet with an unfortunate flying accident in Spain, the Buchon crashing on landing as a result, I believe, of some bad turbulence. The Buchon was destroyed. Mark was badly burned, passing away the next day.
I forget the specifics of the colour scheme itself, save for it being a Defence of the Reich scheme from late 1944/early 1945. What strikes me about it is it makes the Buchon/Me109 even more menacing than normal - a particular photo in the September 1998 edition of Aeroplane Monthly made it look almost shark-like!
Anyway, enough waffling. Model and scheme as above. This will be my third and final build in this GB!
