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Bf-109 E-4 Trop

by Ermanno Bonafin

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I always liked the desert scheme camouflages, and the Tamiya Bf109E-4 Trop on the colors of JG27 is a nice example with his top surfaces painted in desert sand and motted with dark green patches.

I added only pre-painted Eduard interior set FE220, handles for sliding panels on the canopy, brake lines and antenna wire.

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First I put a coat of Gunze Mr. surfacer 1000 as a primer and pre-shading the model with matt black.
For this model I used Model Master Acrylics range, interior RLM02 Grau #4770, bottom surfaces RLM78 Hellblau #4788, top surfaces RLM79 Sandgelb #4789 and the patches with RLM80 Olivegrun #4790. Before the white fuselage band was sprayed in Tamiya XF2 and masked.
After a couple of coats of Future and the decaling process, was sealed with another coat of Future and a final coat of Matt #4635.
Then the exhausts stain was sprayed free hand with Tamiya XF1 and XF10.  A wash of black chalk and some weathering with Tamiya Weathering set, complete the job.

 
Ermanno

Photos and text © by Ermanno Bonafin