Messerschmitt Bf109 G-6 Special Hobby 2013 tool, 2018 box

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This is a Finnish Air Force Bf109 G-6 with PE and resin parts. 🙂

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Made a start on the 109 cockpit. A combination of plastic and PE. 🙂

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Fuselage main colour Vallejo Model Air RLM66 and other colours added. 🙂

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Cockpit added to one side of fuselage ready for gluing them together. Fit seems to be really good so far. 🙂

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Fuselage glued together, fit was pretty good. 🙂

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PE painted aluminium and then glued on to wing area painted RLM02. Wheel wells also painted RLM02. 🙂

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Wings now connected to fuselage. 🙂

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Air intakes completed and a bit more filling applied. 🙂

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Tail plane now added and we are ready for primer. 🙂

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Light gray primer added and then pre-shading, ready for painting the colour scheme next. 🙂

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Vallejo Model Air Light Blue Gray RLM76 added to underside and areas of the fuselage sides. 🙂

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Today I have added Vallejo Model Air RLM Yellow RLM04 to the various underside areas as per the colour scheme. Next will be the upper. 🙂

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Today I added the base colour of the camouflage, Vallejo Model Air Grey Violet RLM75. 🙂

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Second main colour added, Vallejo Model Air Grey Green RLM74. RLM74 & RLM75 used for mottling. 🙂

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Decals now added and a little extra mottling where necessary. Next will be all of the other bits and pieces once painted. 🙂

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I now declare this one complete. Propeller, undercarriage, cockpit etc all added. 🙂

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The Finnish Air Force ordered 162 Messerschmitt Bf-109s from Germany. 48 G-2s, 111 G-6 and 3 G-8s. 3 were destroyed in transit but the remaining 159 Bf-109s' pilots scored 663 air victories in 1943-44 and lost 34 in combat. 102 Bf-109Gs survived the War.
The aircraft denoted here was flown by Warrant Officer Ilmari Juutilainen as part of 1./He LV 24 in June 1944 based at Taipalsaari.
Ilmari Juutilainen was the highest scoring non German ace of the Second World War. He scored 94 official "kills" although he claimed over 120. Born in 1914, he joined the Finnish Air Force in 1932 and learned to fly in 1933. During the Winter War and the Continuation War against the Soviet Union, he flew Fokker VIII (2 confirmed "kills"), Brewster Buffalo (34 confirmed "kills") and Messerschmitt Bf109 G .(58 confirmed kills). He celebrated being an ace in a day on 30 June 1944 when he shot down 6 aircraft (2 P-39 Airacobras, 2 Yak-9s, 1 LA-5 and 1 Il2 Sturmovic). He refused to be commissioned as he did not want Officer training to get in the way of flying missions.
Highly decorated, he was awarded the Mannerheim Cross twice, the Cross of Liberty with Oak Leaves and Swords 3rd and 4th Class, the Medal of Liberty (Finnish) and the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class (German).
He passed away in 1999 aged 85.

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