1/18 BF109G6/14 tall tail custom

[flyboy_fx]

Enjoy!!!! I don't know why I never posted pics of this one... It's been done for like 2 months.
Bf 109G6/14 W.Nr 410061, Wunsdorf, Germany, May 1945. This machine appears to be a G6 which was in the process of being upgraded to a G14 standard when the factory was overrun. It has a standard G6 canopy and short tail wheel and radio equipment, but tall tail of a G14. Similar schemes have been found on bf109s at Pizen.

My Bf109 has been painted in a overall scheme of RLM 81/82 over 76 with what appears to be, RLM 02 or RLM 84 blotches on the fuselage. I chose RLM 84, Graublau for the blotches.
The camo pattern was airbrushed with Vallejo model air acrylics.
I built the rudder and extension from laminated balsa sheets and sanded it to shape. The rudder is indeed taller than the original 21st rudder that is stock for bf109 G6s.

[plasticboy]

Wow......... Impressive! I guess you have lot of 109 for custom, remember you did few.

[pickelhaube]

This looks pretty good but you missed something.

The 109 has the lavender type second color camo. Kind of like 21st's Fw-190.

It looks like you could have used a little more cream color in your spots.

I am not trying to come down on you just minor color differences.

[flyboy_fx]

Hi ph,

The color on the fw190 is rlm 02. I chose rlm 84 (greenblue) for my spots. I liked the way it looked. Rlm 84v2 is what they painted on the fw190`s sides. It's the off blue color... well, green blue. lol Either wouls work... heck, even rlm 76 blotches would.
Also, my rlm 81/82 iswhat vallejo recomends. On my me 262 trainer i mixed some redbrown into my rlm 82, this one i did not. It's just vallejo olive drab (rlm82 they recommend).

[flyboy_fx]

Hi ph,

The color on the fw190 is rlm 02. I chose rlm 84 (greenblue) for my spots. I liked the way it looked. Rlm 84v2 is what they painted on the fw190`s sides. It's the off blue color... well, green blue. lol Either wouls work... heck, even rlm 76 blotches would.
Also, my rlm 81/82 iswhat vallejo recomends. On my me 262 trainer i mixed some redbrown into my rlm 82, this one i did not. It's just vallejo olive drab (rlm82 they recommend).

[AJWW2]

Dude that's great. Your paint jobs are awesome!

[B17Fortress]

Great work once again flyboy!

I love the head stand the plane is sporting in two of those photos!

[smittyrob64]

Looks great.

This looks pretty good but you missed something.

The 109 has the lavender type second color camo. Kind of like 21st's Fw-190.

I think what pickelhaube is referring to is the second base color camouflage as seen on the side profile pic you showed, which appears to be RLM 75 Grauviolet, also seen on 21st's FW-190.

[flyboy_fx]

Gotcha...

Well, I was going after the RLM 81/82 that BF109 later versions where painted in. I don't thing any G-6s where painted in that.
Like this. I did not mix in as much red to the redbrown RLM 82 though.
Also note the RLM 84 under-surface color. I chose that for my blotches.

[flyboy_fx]

Looks great.

This looks pretty good but you missed something.

The 109 has the lavender type second color camo. Kind of like 21st's Fw-190.

I think what pickelhaube is referring to is the second base color camouflage as seen on the side profile pic you showed, which appears to be RLM 75 Grauviolet, also seen on 21st's FW-190.

OH I GOTCHA! I see, the reference has the RLM 75. I chose to do 81/82 because I found proof of that on similar schemes and I liked it better.

[Jnewboy]

It looks good flyboy! nice job on the tail!!

[aferguson]

for some reason i just saw this.

to my understanding this could be a G14, not a G6 being converted. While the G14 was meant to standardize the chaotic series of changes that had been designed into the G series, it didn't and there were just as many variations in the G14 series as there were in the G6. Most G14's had the galland hood though, whereas this one has the earlier style canopy. But lots of G14's had the cowl bumps, short tailwheel of the G6 series.

It's hard to believe there were any G6's still around to be converted in May of 45. They hadn't been produced in well over a year and with service attrition i would doubt there were any left by this point in the war. In fact, i doubt there were any left at the time of Bodenplatte on Jan 1 '45.

So this may simply be a G14, in one of its many forms.

I like the tall tail custom job. Something i'd like to try myself as well as the erla hood

[flyboy_fx]

Yea, I see what you mean. I thought the same, but any info I could find on this plane states it's converted.

I feel like I want to repaint this one. I used what Vallejo recommended for RLM80/81, not my mixture, like the one I used on my 262 trainer.

[aferguson]

the cover of Squadron Signal's Messerschmitt Bf 109 in Action Part 2, shows a pair of 109's in flight together, with the caption being late December '44.

One is a K-4, but the other is a G6, so maybe there were still G6's around at that time, and later that could have, at some point, undergone conversion to later standards with the tall tail, lengthened tailwheel, erla hood etc.

It's just surprising that a model that came out in early '43 would still be around so much later, when the pace of fighter development on both sides was so brisk.

[aferguson]

ok, i did some digging and the G-6 did indeed remain in frontline service until the end of the war and was used during Bodenplatte along with various other G and K variants.

They were being updated to G14 standards throughout the later part of the war, so what you researched is probably correct. This was a G6 being updated to G14 standards. Which means prior to that it was still a good ole regular G6 like the ones that had been around for 2 years.