Finnish Army BTR-50 APC, Trumpeter 1:35

Been building this kit for a while now on and off. Not at all a great kit as it suffers from fit issues and a lot of flash on the parts, one of trumpeters older molds with some upgraded parts to make the BTR range.

If you plan to build it A MUST is to replace the tracks because the are so badly molded they cant even be used.. I replaced them with Friulmodel-tracks and used burnishing fluid to get the correct effect on them. Painted with AKAN finnish modern armor set, dark green and light green. The black is tamiya Nato black. The AKAN paint works great and are a great match for the modern hard edge camouflages that the finnish armored vehicles have.

Weathered with pigments and washes from MIG ammo. The antenna is made out of stretched sprue and towing cables from Eureka.

Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 (MT-451) Finnish airforce, Trumpeter 1:32 Completed

Been building this kit on and off for about a year, trumpeters 109 G-6 built as MT-451 finnish airforce. Flown by among others one of the great aces Ilmari Juutilanen.
Trumpeter kit has many faults but its an ok kit, great fit and will look good with some minor modifications. But I still think hasegawa is the best one with some resin upgrades. In my dreams I still see a Tamiya 1:32 109G-6 full detail kit.. that would be the day. To many allied 1:32 kits from them so time for the axis side.

Many parts taken from another 109 build Im working on, revells G-6. The trumpeter cockpit is awful more in 1:31 scale and the details are not even close to the real thing. Spinner has the wrong shape, was planning on using a resin one but it does not fit the fusalage so half of it is from revell and the other half from trumpeter. Painting done with gunze and masked with white tac and paper that I cut out from a 1:32 drawing copy.


Kit: Trumpeter Messerschmitt 109 G-6 1:32
Paints used: RLM colors from Gunze and Vallejo. Weathered with MIG AMMO panel liners, oils and pigments.
Aftermarket parts: Decals MDC. Wheels + oil cooler fairing + exhausts + supercharger intake from Barracudacast. Revi sight from quickboost. Seatbelts from HGW. 
Parts used from the new Revell 109G-6: Tail + Rudder, cockpit, top part of the spinner.