Moselle, France
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Posted: Friday, August 28, 2009 - 08:34 PM UTC

John Bardwell (johnb593) has sent us some images of his very nice 1/32 scale Bf 109G-14/AS. This is a modified version of the Hasegawa Bf 109G-10 Nacht Jäger kit.
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Posted: Friday, August 28, 2009 - 11:15 PM UTC
great looking model John !
..as its a JG 300 subject I feel bound to add some additional info ..hope you don't mind!
'green 3' was Lt. Willi Trabert 's G-14/AS assigned during late 1944 at Mark Zwuschen when Trabert was Staffelfuehrer of 11./JG 300. His a/c was equipped with a gun camera & the aperture in the port wing leading edge is one detail that I might have added (he says) to this replica - gun cameras were not widely used in the Jagdwaffe being generally reserved only for those pilots likely to bring back some interesting footage. The small G-6 style wing wheel bulges are spot on....as are the lower cowl chin bulges and the deeper oil cooler, seen on late G-14s produced by Messerschmitt only prior to the introduction of the K-4
Bern, Switzerland
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Posted: Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 12:00 AM UTC
A very beautiful Bf109 in a beautiful scheme...
@ Neil: Is there any conversion set or how does this gun camera and aperture look like?
England - South East, United Kingdom
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Posted: Saturday, August 29, 2009 - 05:08 AM UTC
..would be a very simple addition. Here's a pic of Trabert's a/c that J-Y Lorant sent me from his book;

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Posted: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 06:14 AM UTC
Hi John
Nice build - and thanks Neil, for the extra info.
All the best
Rowan
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Friday, September 04, 2009 - 07:36 AM UTC
Nice looking 109 John.
It's also good to see that someone elses workbench is just as messy as mine. Bravo sir, bravo...
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