Here is my second Hobbycraft 109. I can't believe it has been almost five years since my first one. I wanted to do a kit in non-German markings, and this one has a couple of options. I chose the Croatian (I think) option, from Italy in 1945.

Assembly was pretty straightforward. The instructions called out for RLM 82 and RLM 83 on the top, with RLM 76 on the bottom. I found a web page (I think it was this one) that showed a photograph of this plane, and also indicated that it was RLM 81 and RLM 82 on the top, so that is what I used. I primed with my mixture of artists acrylic paint and Future, and painted with Vallejo Model Air. Interestingly, the bottle of RLM 82 is labelled Light Green, but it is darker than the RLM 83 in the same paint line. The RLM 04 is Tamiya XF-3 Flat Yellow.

The spinner was painted AMMO by Mig 047 Satin White. I was going to try to paint the spiral, but chickened out. I found a set of decals from a Hasegawa Bf 109G-6 that had a suitable decal, so I used it. The actual plane had a black spiral on a white background, so the decal was correct in that respect. The other decals came from the kit, and worked well. There were no stencils in the kit decals - at least, not in my kit - but I'm not complaining, as I don't like applying stencils. The canopy was masked with a mask from EZ Masks.

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