Over the years, with the introduction of new LEGO parts and colors as well as my overall evolution in building skills, I´ve made many upgraded versions of older MOCs.
However, to my huge surprise I noticed that the Plane that I tried the most to build so far was… the Messerschmitt Bf 109 (or Me-109), the famous Fighter of World War Two used by the German Luftwaffe.
So far, I´ve built five MOCs of this plane, all of them different designs.
The first was a 2014 fictious Bf-109 that would have been flown by Manfred Von Richthofen (the legendary Red Baron) if he had survived World War One and continued flying during the Second World War.
In 2018 I actually made two Bf-109 variants, the Bf-109Z (a proposed two 109 fuselages joined by a new wing centre section) and the Avia S-99, a Czechoslovak version of the 109 built after the war and powered by a Junkers Bomber engine. Ironically, it was the first Fighter aircraft of the new state of Israel.
After this, in 2021 I made the Bf-109B, the first of the Messerschmitt´s to see combat, in this case on the skies of Spain during the Spanish Civil War. It was followed one year later (2022) by the last combat version of the 109, the Hispano Buchon, which was powered ironically by the Rolls Royce Merlin engine, the same powerplant used by it´s nemesis in World War Two, the Spitfire.
So, if I never really liked this aircraft, why did I tried so many times to build it? I mean, it´s not beautiful, it was used by two Fascist Nations… what gives?
Well, the truth is the 109 had a long history. It flew for the first time in 1935 and it remained in combat until 1965! With so many different variants, I just had to make some of them. And believe me, I still want to make many more!
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