Crosses applied in paint are made possible by the 1:48 Bf 109 K masks for crosses set, prepared for the last production form of the Bf 109.
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Markings applied in paint look more convincing on a late Bf 109 than a decal, because late machines often had their crosses sprayed in haste through a stencil at the unit itself. The set carries that procedure over into 1:48 scale and the result looks more persuasive than a smoothly applied decal.
The Kurfürst reached the units in the autumn of 1944 as an attempt to unify a disordered production into a single standard. It carried a more powerful variant of the DB 605 engine, a tall tail surface, a lengthened tailwheel leg and bulges on the cover over the fuselage weapons. In the K-4 version it had a large-caliber cannon on the propeller axis, but by the end of the war fuel and trained pilots were already lacking, so its potential was never fully shown. Series production nonetheless got under way and finished machines were still reaching combat units in the last months of the conflict.
Most mistakes arise at the end of the work. Remove the film before the paint has fully hardened and pull it back over itself rather than straight up, which reduces the risk of the layer underneath lifting with it. On small internal fields the tip of a scalpel or tweezers will help. Before that, go through photographs of the particular aircraft; late markings tended to be simplified and their dimensions differed from machine to machine.
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