I usuallly never comment negatively on any finished built models, and I am actually a fan of Jean barby's always excellent, and prolific, builds (I think he is one of the best aircraft modellers out there) , but here the main problem of this build is so severe I cannot let it pass without comment.

The kits I most frequentlly associate with an excessively flat dihedral are Tamiya's 1/48th P-51s: In these kits this severe defect is not discernible by dry-fitting the fuselage halves empty. The interaction of the cockpit parts and dihedral is the cause of the inaccurate final result, and this is one of the significant lessons of this kit. The Hasegawa Me-109 1:48th series often suffers from the same problem, but here it might have been exacerbated by the use of a resin cockpit.

Whatever the cause may be, the dihedral in evidence here in this build is more than severely lacking, it is virtually non-existent compared to what it should be. The steep dihedral is one of the signature features of the entire Me-109 series, so this model cannot be considered a successful representation, even if one were to ignore the many other problems of the Hasegawa kit (a far superior and nearly flawless alternative for this G-2 variant exists by combining the Zvezda F kit with a Vector G-2 conversion set). This dihedral problem is all the more disheartening since this is one of the best paint jobs I have seen on a Me-109... Yes I am envious of Jean Barby's output, but please don't think this is why I point this out...

Gaston