Allan in Canberra-after a delay here is my

[Allan]

Hi fellows,
It's the Hasegawa 109G kit knocked into a two-seater. You know you're really a modeller when you find yourself drilling out the trigger guard of a Parabellum machine gun.
The lozenge I gave up trying to paint and resorted to decal. When I drop off the twig you can put on my gravestone, "Here lies a fool who once tried to paint lozenge."
My AH is that Werner Voss actually survived the epic dogfight with RFC 56 Squadron, but was badly wounded. He transferred to two-seaters and survived the war. Willy Messerschmidt made a wooden two-seater that Voss flew over the closing months of the war. It was redesigned into a metal single-seater during  the post-war period and the rest is history.
Comments very welcome. Here're the pics.
Allan in Canberra

[AeroplaneDriver]

You were going to handpaint that!!??    

I'm glad you used decals, otherwise we would have had to wait forever to see this little beauty!!

[Sisko]

Hello Allan good to see you posting agiain. It has been awhile.

That is fantastic and gives me some very unhealthy ideas.

You should post it on the model site that shall not be named.  

[Gary]

Bwaaaa Hahahahahahahaha

that's totally brilliant! I love it! And it's the prefect mark for that idea!

cool beans man!

[Brian da Basher]

Allan it's great to see you pop up on the board with another model! Your work has been missed around here. I've got to say this is your most impressive effort yet! I think you've done a killer job on the woodgrain effect and the lozenge. I really like your idea of adding a gunner. A wonderful concept carried out with supreme execution! My hat is off to you!

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

The rear post looks rather uncomfortable : this is a right punishment for Nazi soldiers !
Seriously : this is an amazing addition to the classical CS-99 (Czech 2-seat Bf-109, Jumo engine), that I build years ago and destroyed changing appartment in 2000. Be careful: your model seems even more fragile than mine was...

[Scooterman]

STUNNING!!!
   

[K5054NZ]

Brilliant brilliant brilliant! Fantastic model! Great execution! And its really good to see you back after so long!


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[NARSES2]

The wood effect on that is truely stunning    

[nev]

Good to see you back Allan, and just in time for the Ashes too!  You were missed during your absence

[ysi_maniac]

I REALLY love this kind of imaginative models.        
Paintjob is superb: wood effect ...
I admit that lozenge -I did it once- is a difficult task.
Wonderful!

[The Rat]

Allan!

ALLAN!

ALLAN!!!

Realised that I hadn't seen your posts in a while, went hunting with the search feature and found this stunner!!    

Welcome back!

[Rafael]

           

[matrixone]

Allan,

I saw this on HS a few days ago and hoped you would post pics of it here too so I could say I think your BF 109 is ''da bomb''! A great idea for a 109 and if the JMNs heads did not explode they must at least have had a headache.

Did you get any ''hate'' e-mails because of your 109?

Matrixone

[Allan]

Thanks fellows for your kind remarks. My model got a pretty good reception over at Hyperscale as well.

Incredibly, Voss is still alive, although he is a very frail (but alert) 109 year old.  He kept in contact with many of his wartime adversaries and there are numerous photographs of Voss and Maccudden dining in a French restaurant and Voss walking in a German park with Barker.  
Voss receives the best of German medical care in a nursing home in Westphalia. Up until a few years ago he gladly granted autographs, but of late has to decline because his handwriting is getting very shaky. He doesn't mind replying to sincere questions about his experiences, as long as they are simple ones. He has a government-appointed secretary transcribe his replies and forwards them to the poster.
The German Government a number of years ago interviewed Voss over a few weeks, with rest periods, and videotaped his recollections and views. The tapes are stored in the National Archives of Germany and can be purchased on CD-ROM at a moderate cost.

Allan in Canbera