Shaped masks for the cockpit glazing of the Bf 109 fighter in the E-3 version in 1:48 scale. The basis is the Hasegawa molding and the framing is covered from both sides.
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The E version, which the crews called Emil, was the first in which the angular airframe met a Daimler-Benz engine equipped with direct fuel injection. It was the injection that let the pilot push into negative g without the engine cutting out, which in the fights of 1940 was a tangible difference from carburetted opponents. Besides the machine guns above the engine, the E-3 form also carried a pair of wing cannon and became the most widespread variant during the fighting over the Channel. The cockpit was famous for dense framing that sliced the view up rather than offering it. The armor plate behind the pilot's head closed off the view to the rear practically completely, which was reflected in the tactics of the day.
The canopy consists of three parts and the frames are narrow, angular and irregularly spaced. Anyone masking them by hand spends an easy hour over the cockpit and still has a few places left where paint has bled. The die-cut pieces from this set fit the edges of the frames exactly and are applied one after another, from the windscreen back to the fixed section.
On machines with yellow noses and wing tips it pays to leave the masks in place during the spraying of the prominent quick-recognition areas as well. They are peeled off only once the last shade has dried, when there is no longer any risk of something getting inside over the edge of a frame.
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