Jesper

If it's acrylics - try ammonia or good old blue windex/windowlene.

HTH

Andy

@Voncuda: looks great with the Stuka. It is quite a beast when compared to the paint jars. How is it coming together so far?

Thanks Jesper. So far this kit has been a dream to build, with very little gap filler needed and almost no sanding of joints. I hope to have her all painted up by the end of the weekend and then start on the decals next week. I'll post some more pics as soon as this is done.

Looks good Jesper!

I hope to get started on my Soviet P-39 next week. About your 109, I bet the bomb was off set to balance the torque of the motor. In regular flight this would have been done by trim. Also, do you suggest starting a whole new thread for my P-39 or just use this one?

-Derek

Could someone please let me know the best software for designing ribbons. I wanted to get a couple of designs drawn up for this campaign but would like to use the right software. Thanks for any info in this regard.

I have made some progress on my little Bf 109. It is coming together quite well and did not take longer than a couple of evenings to build. The cockpit colour is not completely right, but it will be after some weathering

It was very interesting for me to find out that the bomb is mounted of to one side underneth the aircraft. I would have expected it to be mounted in the centre of the aircraft to improve stability in flight. Maybe it was not a big problem
I doublechecked my references and it is not a mistake in the kit. The bomb was really mounted of to one side.

Looking good, although I'm curious to see the weathering you're going to apply to turn the interior-greenish color into a dark grey.

Did those wing-cannon barrels come with the kit? To my knowledge, G6's didn't have 'em, unless they were on under-wing gondolas.

What is this kit? I didn't know Zvedsa had a 109 in the catalog.
Judging from the WIP pics, I'd say that's a re-boxed academy (and that in turn ex-hasegawa...) kit. If it is, they must have re-tooled the kit, since academy's kit has narrow sprues to fit inside the box.

Btw, does that small block of text on box-top say:
Warning: All sales of this kit abroad ex-USSR are illegal?

I've been thinking about participating as well. Does a U.S P-39 make a good entry? Russian lend-lease planes are go, since they were used extensively "down 'n' low", but is a P-39Q "Devastating devil" used in the Pacific OK for the campaign?

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Looking good, although I'm curious to see the weathering you're going to apply to turn the interior-greenish color into a dark grey.

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He he, the instructions say pale green. I have seen that also on some luftwaffe planes, but maybe that was early war machines Anyway, I went with the instructions, but I can understand that all Luftwaffe planes were dark grey for interior?

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Btw, does that small block of text on box-top say:
Warning: All sales of this kit abroad ex-USSR are illegal?

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A friend bought it for me when he was travelling in Russia some years back. However, I would bet I could get it anyway here in Riga. Some might argue that Latvia is former USSR, but do not say that to a Latvian.

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I've been thinking about participating as well. Does a U.S P-39 make a good entry? Russian lend-lease planes are go, since they were used extensively "down 'n' low", but is a P-39Q "Devastating devil" used in the Pacific OK for the campaign?

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Well, as long as it still has the 37mm cannon it will be okay.
As far as I can tell the P-39Q still had the 37mm cannon despite changing the propeller (?) If it can be used down low and has a 37mm cannon it is a go.

I wonder why some of Zvesda's boxes have those warnings. Some years ago my uncle brought me a Mig-29 from his trip to St. Petersburg and that box has the same text.
Perhaps it's an attempt to control the distribution of kits not yet released abroad?

Yes, it does have the 37mm cannon. The wing armament changed in P39Q from four .30 caliber mg's to 2 .50's in pods (although Russians sometimes removed them altogether). This variant I'm thinking about building has the 3-bladed propeller, while it was changed to a 4-bladed one in later Q-variants.