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Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 7th, 2017, 7:21 am
by Gadfly
Hi,

I have made a start on another 109 this is the newish Airfix 1/48 109 E. I'm making an E1 OOB with the Legion Condor Markings.

Here is the boxing..

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and progress on the cockpit...

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It might get finished by the end of the GB..

We'll see..

Cheers

GF

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 7th, 2017, 9:10 am
by iggie
Looks like you've made a good start anyway!

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 19th, 2017, 8:03 am
by Gadfly
So Progress on this...

fuselage and wing together. Seams sorted including the horrible wing gun inserts... Off for base paint shortly..

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Cheers

GF

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 24th, 2017, 11:53 am
by Gadfly
So I have been painting the Emil...

Canopy on and framing painted in RLM 02 and white bits painted and masked..

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Main base paint on. My RLM 63 is a home brew of RLM02 and LAG about 50/50.

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masked for the black bits...

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Black bits painted and also RLM02 on the slat bays..

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everything had a clear coat and i heard the Airfix decals were pants which looke to be true based on the decal sheet in the box..

So I decided to paint the republican main markings...

here masked up...

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and painted

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I was going to use the decal for the rudder cross but it fell apart in the water...

so I have masked and painted that Im not holding out much hope for the rest of the decals...

Cheers

GF

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 24th, 2017, 11:56 am
by iggie
That looks to be some very sharp masking and painting indeed GF 8-)

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 24th, 2017, 5:06 pm
by ShaunW
Great work GF and that is an excellent bit of masking for the main markings - no chance of any silvering there!

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 24th, 2017, 7:53 pm
by Gadfly
Thanks guys much appreciated

GF

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 26th, 2017, 11:56 am
by Old_Tonto
Lovely work Gadfly. You are much braver than me painting the roundels on. I'd worry too much about placement. :lol:
At least with decals you can move them around.

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 26th, 2017, 12:01 pm
by Gadfly
Thanks...

Getting the mask location is not too hard I added paper strips to the mask on this build and this makes setting the mask in place very easy.

Here is the latest progress...

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the kit decals as predicted were crap... The code numbers packed a sad as soon as they hit the water... I gave cutting some masks from frisket a try but the codes '6 99' proved troublesome as the centres of the numbers are quite elongated on the Legion Condor font so hard to cut by hand.. I plumped for some decals a generic sheet of nationalist codes and roundels.. I dont think these will arrive by the end of the GB and to finish the build I need the decals a clear coat then weathering etc... So I reckon I'll be late with the build...

Never mind...

Cheers

GF

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: April 26th, 2017, 5:00 pm
by ShaunW
It looks great in those Spanish Civil War colours and markings GF and it is a shame indeed about the pants decals which will now delay your progress. It's going to look great when it's finished though!

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: May 12th, 2017, 10:49 am
by Gadfly
right finished....


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Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: May 12th, 2017, 11:35 am
by ShaunW
That is a real peach of a build GF, a great looking '109.

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: May 12th, 2017, 4:45 pm
by iggie
Lovely job GF, very nice indeed!

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: May 12th, 2017, 6:07 pm
by gnomemeansgnome
Great looking results, man. Very nice.

Re: Gadfly's Spanish Emil

Posted: May 13th, 2017, 10:08 am
by gbrwn56
Really nice work, not something I would be confident enough to try though :) thanks for sharing.