Messerschmit Bf 109G-6

It's been said that "The best book has yet to be written and the best song has yet to be sung." However, if you've been waiting for the best 109G kit, look no further Hasegawa has produced it. Is it possible for another manufacturer to make a better kit? Probably, but it's unlikely that another manufacturer will spend the money that will take to make a better 109 kit. However, the individual modeler can always add labor as well as after market items to make the basic Hasegawa 109s better.
Because the kit is engineered to allow a number of variants to be built by using small parts molded on the sprue you must be careful to use only those parts for the variant you wish to build.

Hasegawa has released their Bf 109G-6 in a variety of boxes, all are the same excellent kit with minor differences usually different markings.

The entire cockpit is painted Schwarz Grau and dry brushed with light gray to bring up the details. The instrument panel is black and again dry brushed with light gray to bring up the bezels, knobs and levers. Red, yellow, green,and white are used to add color to the dials knobs and levers. When the interior was dry the fuselage halves were glued together and installed the cockpit and instrument panel.
Before gluing the wing tops to the lower wing be sure to install the two radiator screens. The wing to fuselage joints are extremely tight and to my non-contest standards required no putty. However, if you are building for competition you might make a different decision. The wing bulges are a little angular on the side facing the fuselage, but a few swipes of a sanding stick took care of it.
The protruding plastic representing the gun tube barrel was drilled outon the spinner and replaced it with a short piece of metal tubing. One of the finer points of the Hasegawa 109s are the individual cowl mounted machine guns. After drilling out the barrels they were painted with Gunze Stainless (NAMC213) and dry brushed with Testors silver and set aside.

Than the landing gear legs were painted with RLM 02 with Testors silver shock absorber sleeves and after using a wash of dark gray on the joints they were put aside. The wheel hubs were painted with RLM066 Black Gray and dry brushed with Testors silver. After that the tires with AeroMaster Tire Black and using shades of brown dried mud on the tires was simulated.

Hartman's aircraft carried the standard fighter scheme of RLM 76/74/75; Light Blue/Gray Green/Medium Gray.with yellow code letters and yellow theater markings. Gunze Sangyo paint were used for this model for all colors and each color was lightened by 25%. This colours on this model were applied with Badger 150 double action airbrush with a fine tip and first was sprayed Medium Grey 76 and than RLM 75 was added. At the and when the kit was dry the 74 was airbrushed. After the kit was dry(after one day) the kit was sprayed with . When the three colors were dry mottling the sides and tail begun. Then after few days when the kit is dry the kit was sprayed with kit overall with Future in preparation for applying the decals. As usual Hasegawa has supplied a magnificent decal sheet containing two different aircraft that Hartman flew.

German Colors...................Gunze Sangyo
RLM 02 RLM Grau...............MAH070
RLM 66 Schwarz grau...........MAH339
RLM 74 Graugrün..................MAH068
RLM 75 Grauviolet................MAH069
RLM 76.Hellgrau....................MAH062
RLM 27 Gelb...........................MAH004