Latest Project: Matchbox 1/32 Bf-109E-3

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Mr. Potato Head said:

tangerine_sedge said:

Holy thread resurrection Batman!

Yeah, but what a great thread to resurrect!

Doesn’t seem like 14 years. I think it was the first model I tried aftermarket details and scratch-built stuff. I always look at it with some regret that despite all the work, the nice mottled paint I did got lost under some dodgy Matt varnish. It obviously wasn’t contrasty enough in the first place. I also wish I’d not bothered trying to add silver paint chips to it - very difficult to get right, and these didn’t quite work. Anyway, it’s still in my office to represent pretty much the beginning of my experiments with more advanced modelling. Big learning experience.

I might get the Airfix version and see if I can finally get that mottling right. When my late Dad saw the real thing on display during the war, he said he remembered it arriving in Sheffield on an RAF Queen Mary transporter. Might make a nice little addition to the Airfix set…