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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #75 on: September 28, 2011, 10:57:19 AM »
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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #76 on: September 28, 2011, 05:31:20 PM »
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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #77 on: September 28, 2011, 08:41:32 PM »
i will participate... my one ill be a hasegawa 109f on 1/48, the kit are on the primer aplication, coming soon i post the pics of the progress

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #78 on: September 28, 2011, 11:50:08 PM »
Aha! Yet another manufacturer's edition! Great to hear you're jumping in.

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #79 on: September 29, 2011, 06:29:03 PM »
This kit from Heller in 1/72 is my next :)) It is K but as well it need to be engraved, from engraving will depend if it will be completed as K or G-10

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #80 on: September 29, 2011, 06:46:38 PM »
Great! :-jump One more fresh build in this topic. :-jump

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #81 on: September 29, 2011, 09:12:34 PM »
I consider this subject to build. Interesting detail is yellow propeller blade tips, not usual for German machines. Also I look for one funny build- post war use of the German 300 liter fuel tank as boat, seen somewhere in Netherlands  :-clap

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #82 on: September 29, 2011, 09:34:43 PM »
No.1, I think that airplane has a Hamilton Standard propeller on it. Notice the shape of the blades--they look very much like the paddle blades used on later B-17s and B-24s. Do you suppose they hung one on there as a test of some sort? That would also explain the yellow tips. The VDM design was licensed to Hamilton Standard and I seem to recall that they used the same shaft spline count and diameter but I'm not positive of that.

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #83 on: September 29, 2011, 09:46:11 PM »
There was enough of spares in that time so no need for replacement I guess. Also this look like typical European landscape and buildings but will take more search about this.

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #84 on: September 30, 2011, 02:14:19 AM »
If you look close at the prop, it's bent backwards from impact as it was still turning. 109's were notorious for landing gear failures, as has happened here :)

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #85 on: September 30, 2011, 02:16:58 AM »
And the yellow tips may just be bare metal, worn away by contact. What does everyone else think? It is a VDM prop.

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #86 on: September 30, 2011, 03:21:54 AM »
And the yellow tips may just be bare metal, worn away by contact. What does everyone else think? It is a VDM prop.

I'm sure you're right on this. I did more thinking after I posted my idea and it doesn't really make much sense for anyone to have adapted a U.S. prop. Nice markings on that one, though.

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #87 on: September 30, 2011, 06:50:00 AM »
In this way this will be only case that propeller blades remained intact after impact to soil. I get this info from Jicehen about this machine:

This plane was WNr 151536, a Bf 109 G-10 from Erla-Leipzig and belonged to II./JG 52 and was "schwarze 22". Red color was forbidden on the eastern front since novemeber 1944. The airfield could have been Neubiberg but I wonder...

If this is Erla-Leipzig built machine, I have some images of this manufacturer and I will see for details. And maybe to choose some other sample.

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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #88 on: September 30, 2011, 06:50:39 AM »
I present my "Box-O-Messerschmitts"! :-roll Next step will be to start the painting process.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_8272.jpg
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The cockpit of the Otaki G whilst fitting the windscreen for the first time. I must say that the one-piece canopy of this model was a bit frustrating. I usually have fair success in using a razor saw to cut canopy parts, but this was so thin that I cracked the center portion during the sawing. No problem to make a new one, though.
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w117/2AF/IMG_8275.jpg
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Re: Bf-109 Group Build-All Variants
« Reply #89 on: September 30, 2011, 08:41:14 AM »
Ha ha ha- look like Augsburg production line in their best days  :))

And you are all right about the tips on image I send some before:

That are not yellow propeller tips on this Bf 109 G-10 but by landing on one leg the tips of the propeller touched the ground and paint was removed from the surface of the metal as by sanding down.

So if I work on this machine it will have standard blades color ;) Thank you for attention ;)