Bf 109 (Trop)

 Ah well, the rot starts here. My original plan was to use my 6mm tropical aircraft with my 15mm stuff, but Tim has already donated to me a load of 1/144th Italian and British planes in desert camo, so the Lufwaffe was never going to be far behind.

I picked up this old Bf 109 from the collection of Frank, a long standing SWS member who sadly died suddenly. I've no idea of the original manufacturer, but it is a plastic model. It was originally done in green splinter with blue undersides, but I thought it was worthy of a repaint in North Africa splodge camo. 

I left the original decals on and left a gap in the sand paint around them to show the original dark green camo, rather like some of my DAK panzers. Otherwise it was just a job of adding the red brown blobs and the various white trimmings. I did the H insignia on the fuselage stripe with a paint pen. I also painted the canopy dark blue as it looks better than battered clear plastic, and shows the perspex support frame better.  

I left the underside as it was, but added the white FFI wingtip bands.

Job done, it will be appearing in a game shortly.