Beany's Revell 1/32 Me-109G Gustav

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Beany's Revell 1/32 Me-109G Gustav

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Thanks to Greg and Jeff for allowing this partially started 2nd hand kit. I thought that while I'm building one WWII Luftwaffe mount is would be just as easy to build two, hopefully in time for the Revell Modelling SIG table at Farnborough Modelfest in a fortnight!

There will be commonality in a lot of the painting and spraying which should save time, and these vintage 1/32 kits don't have the highest parts count let's face it.

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I will probably do this one wheels down which is unusual for me, but will make it easier to display at shows.

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Didn't the wheels retract on those old Revell kits?
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Don't you just love those old Revell kits? I remember eyeing the 109 on the shelf but usually didn't have enough allowance in my pocket to get it.
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Saved my school lunch money just to buy these kits.
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splash wrote:Didn't the wheels retract on those old Revell kits?
Yeah, they do on this one Alan.

I remember the first time I saved my paper round money to buy this on in the early 70s, and how distraught I was when I got it home and found the decals were missing. I exchanged it the following weekend for the Aleutian Tiger instead as they had no more Gustavs in stock.

Oh for a time machine to go back to that model shop (long gone) in Camberley, Surrey and another chance to buy up the 1/32 aircraft, the Zany Planes, (including Lucky Pierre and his Inverted Nieuport), the Chopper Bikes - 1/8th and 1/12th - the 1/16th Dragsters etc. etc.

Fortunately, many of the aircraft at least are still available at shows or on eBay, but not so much the choppers and dragsters - I had to pay £70 for a 1/16th dragster and reckon I was lucky to be the winning bid on that!
Right, time to crack on with the build.
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My first Revell big scale was the Spitfire. DW-K. It just didn't get better than that.
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This is a bit of a combined build of the Bf.109 and the Fw.190 at this stage.
An afternoon of very relaxing hand painting with Revell 77 (Basalt Grey) which I choose
to use as RLM.66 for German interiors.
I had a Genesis retrospective while painting and got through Trespass, Nursery Crime,
Foxtrot and Selling England By The Pound - nice to hear the originals albums again after
listen to later live albums and compilations etc.

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