Messerschmitt Bf109E-7

I can resist no longer … back to the Seaton Scale Modellers’ Group Build and Part 2 of my Airfix 1:48 scale Dogfight Doubles, the Messerschmitt Bf109E-7. It’s so refreshing, after wading through that awful MiniArt Staff Car build, to be back working on such a nicely designed kit. 

Here you’ll see me applying my proven technique of spraying yellow over layers of black, silver and white.

It’s times like these that I wish I’d bought canopy masks! Masked and primed the Airfix Messerschmitt Bf109 ready for further masking and the camouflage layer. 

Airfix provides decals and painting instructions for the aircraft flown by fighter ace, Oberleutnant Joachim Müncheberg. 7./JG26 "Schlageter", when in Gela, Sicily, during Spring 1941,

As Müncheberg would have just received delivery of his factory new Bf 109 E-7/N marked as "White 12" shortly after arriving in Gela in February 1941, I’ve finished it to a very pristine condition with minimal weathering. 

As I’ve built this kit to be displayed as part of a group build in my local model shop, Devon Art Supplies, at the end of the month, I’ve kept it very much as an “out of box” build, even down to using the little Humbrol pots of acrylic paint!

Messerschmitt Bf109E

My first Luftwaffe aircraft in ages. This is the Airfix 1:72 scale Messerschmitt BF109E-4 (1538) as flown by Oberleutnant Anton Schon with 8 Staffel Jagdgeschwader 54 (8/JG54), Luftwaffe in 1940

I had a real challenge with both the masking and airbrush on this build

At the age of 28, Anton was  KIA on 27 September, 1940 over Tilbury-Kent  while trying to put his crippled 109E fighter down, when he hit a fence, somersaulted over main road and crashed in flames near Brenley House, Boughton, near Canterbury, Kent, 12.05pm.

I loved the number of different decals included with this kit

 

He was buried at Boughton under Blean churchyard, and later moved to the War Cemetery at Cannock Chase, Block 1, Gr 177.

The detailing Airfix have thrown in is really impressive compared to an Me109
I have in my collection from 10 years ago.

Prior to his death, he had already he survived a mid-air collision on 15 November, 1939 over Lingen/Ems and on 12 August, 1940 being wounded over the Guines-South airfield in NE France c. 10.5 km S of Calais and 1 km SW of the village of Guînes when his aircraft sustained 60% damage. The airfield served as a forward Luftwaffe fighter field in 1940, abandoned after the Battle of Britain.It was on this same date that he recorded his first victory, a Spitfire at Ramsgate. One of the first fighter pilots to receive the EK 2 (Iron Cross 2nd Class).

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The Kit ....

Brand: Airfix
Title: Messerschmitt Bf109E-4
Number: A01008A
Scale: 1:72
Released: 2018 | Rebox (Changed decals)