Showing posts with label Bf 109f-4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bf 109f-4. Show all posts

Sunday, 14 June 2009

[Kit Review] - Sweet 1/144 - Messerschmitt Bf-109 F.4 "Operation Barbarossa, Summer Version" -

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Cool box art for this kit with Nasa-Chan in the yellow dress. This version of the Messerschmidtt is the F.4 version which i don't really know what that means except i guess its a upgrade. Is for the Operation Barbarossa which started the great patriotic war with Soviet Russian.

This is the summers version there is a winter version but not sure if i'll get that one, end up with 10 Messerschmitt's.

Back of the box shows that what the new f.4 version of the Bf-109 differences are, seems it's a update on the F.2

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Usual easy to follow instructions as with all the Sweet kits ive got even though i can't read much of the Japanese. Looks like there more English than the Mustang.

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Lots of interesting colour schemes to choose from, kinda worried about painting the yellow, has always been for with white the worst colour for me to paint. Tends to always look really wrong.

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Looking like perfect plastic, think i read somewhere that the Sweet Bf-109 are the first sweet kit with proper cockpit, like chair and a dashboard which even the Revell kit has none on the Academy.

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Might be sometimes before i start this one, already gathering quite a stash with some kits i really want to build and other not so.
Ian

Saturday, 16 May 2009

[Kit Review] - Sweet 1/144 - Bf 109f-4 Tropical "Star of Africa" -

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New sweet kit of the week, the WW2 German Bf 109f-4 in Africa corp tropical or desert paint scheme.
Really interesting thing about this kit is that it centers on the "Star of Africa" Hans-Joachim Marseille who has a confirmed 158 victories. Here's his wikipedia post as it s a interesting read

The kit comes with decals in 1/144, 1/72 and 1/48 for Marseilles personal Kubelwagen "OTTO", going to have to go find one in 1/144 and make a small diorama me thinks.

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Usual excellent instructions with 1/1 painting guide of the 1/144 aircraft, luckily not a massive difference in paint schemes so no hard choice.

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Easy to follow instructions even though there lots of Japanese texts.

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Fantastic detail which ive come to expect from sweet.

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This is one of those kits im inching to get started, especially as the subject is very interesting.

Ian