Zenrat's Flying Circus

[PR19_Kit]

It's a JMN thing, isn't it?

Especially Luftwaffe JMNs, who can have entire conversations just mentioning numbers! 

[zenrat]

There are pages and pages on the interweb just devoted to comparing and critiquing different hobby paint manufacturers takes on the same RLM paint shade.
I've started painting the 109.  It's an interesting scheme i've chosen.  The middle one on this pic.

It possibly has more different colours in it than any other camo scheme i've done (except the 7 shades of blue on the Sky Pirates flying boat).

Spitfire also got some paint on it today.

Privateer military paint is done.  It now needs civilianising.
Privateer Express WIP 29-07-2019 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

I also painted two 1/25 car bodies today...
...and my left hand.

[NARSES2]

There are pages and pages on the interweb just devoted to comparing and critiquing different hobby paint manufacturers takes on the same RLM paint shade.
I've started painting the 109.  It's an interesting scheme i've chosen.  The middle one on this pic.

I like that scheme mate, also has the advantage that it avoids mottle  A lot of these late war Luftwaffe schemes are very interesting and open to interpretation which can be a great help if you haven't got the "right colours".

I'm not convinced Vallejo's paints are that accurate anyway.

You and me both.

I don't get obsessed about colours, and as I've said many times in the past we all see them differently (just ask for a woman's description of a colour if you don't believe me  ) but if there were prescribed standards then it's nice if the manufacturers try to stick to them. Most of the allegedly same colours I have from different manufacturers do tend to be very alike, but the few Vallejo ones I have don't tend to match the others. Who's right, who's wrong ? Don't really care, but I'll stick with the consensus until proved wrong 

[zenrat]

I've been staring at that paint scheme for the last few days and i've only just noticed that they have given Humbrol paint numbers.

Got more colours on today.  I now have one coat of every colour on except the black and the lighter colour on the wings. 

Spit also has one coat of each colour.

[NARSES2]

I've been staring at that paint scheme for the last few days and i've only just noticed that they have given Humbrol paint numbers.

And some are old numbers that are no longer in production, or are available as enamels but not acrylics. I just wonder if they are still generally available in the Czech Rep ? I need to ask them at SMW.

Still the one useful thing about Humbrol is that they are still fairly easy to cross reference to your favourite brand.

[zenrat]

Here's the 109 with one coat of all the colours on it.
Me 109H-v WIP 31-07-2019 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

 

[Old Wombat]

 

[TheChronicOne]

Nice, dude!!! I'm ->||<- this close to starting an FW-190 and it is similar to this, in that it was late war and has tons of different colors on it.

It's funny, I haven't built Luftwaffe since I was a little kid and I've not seen you build one in the time I've been a member here but then all of a sudden at about the same time we both decide to build one...........          Mine gone be real-world but I suppose I could turn it into a v-tail.....   

I love what you did w/ the wings!

[zenrat]

I've done a few WW2 Luftwaffe builds.
Henschel Hs 127 1005 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Macchi MC202 006 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Bf 110 Sternschnuppe 009 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Me 262-Bf 109 E Mistel 7 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
Ta 338 D-2 Schwartzwaldteufel 15 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
And in the stash I have a couple more Me 109s, an Me 110 (Eduard, lovely kit), a couple of Me 262s, a couple more FW 190s, an He 111, an FW 200 (early Revell, crude and therefore ideal whiff fodder), a Do 17 and one of the Revell Luft 46 Messerschmitt heavy fighters.  Some of those will surely end up with balkenkreuz on them.
I am also fighting a weakness for He 177s and have recently realised I have never ever built a Ju 88.  Not even back when I was a joey and doing all this first time around.

The 109 I am working on now is actually OOB (well, to be completely accurate Out Of Boxes).  It's an AZ Me 109H long winged model with the tail from the same firms Me 109 G-0 vee tailed example. 

[TheChronicOne]

Ahhh yeah I remember some of these now!!  The M262 and 109 Mistel and the MC 202.  The mistel plane was quite recent, too.  The Sternschnuppe is fantastic. 

Didn't know about the 109H at all. Pretty cool. Those long wings have a nice gullish quality and and are strange to see on a 109. I'm used used them have the skinny-ish plank like ones. I don't know a terrible lot about the 109 and the billions of variants confuse me. 

[NARSES2]

The Sternschnuppe is fantastic. 

It is indeed. Messerschmidt meets B&V

[zenrat]

Ironically the 110 is the one i'm least happy with.  I need to revisit the concept.

[NARSES2]

Ironically the 110 is the one i'm least happy with.  I need to revisit the concept.

Perhaps with a pair of close cowled radials ?

[zenrat]

Well, the engine pod is one of the parts I like.  Those nacelles with he up/down swept exhausts are one of teethings that make a 110 for me.
It's mainly the wings I don't like.  I used 109 wings outboard of the nacelles and the fuselage in order to use their undercarriage and I think they could be longer.
I'm also not keen on that stalky tail leg I had to use in order to get the rear prop clear of the ground.
no, there has to be another way to do it maintaining the asymmetry while still using the original engines.

Finished the main paint on the Privateer today.  You can see here the patchy faded original paint, overpainted military insignia and a white stripe where the civilian users company name will be written.
Privateer Express WIP 03-08-2019 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr