While we are waiting for Rotton50 to put the finishing touches to his Mossie we are working on the Bf110's of 8 ZG26...

Beautiful work

Cheers

Beautiful stuff, Mike and most attractive camo schemes
I remember a Bf 110 from ZG 26 wearing a thinly oversprayed coat of RLM 79 with the standard splinter scheme of RLM 74/75 shining through.
Will have a look for the code when returning home. Might be an additional variant.
For the 3DZ modders - are there any spare nodes left to create rounded tail fins?

Fantastic!

Lovely work Mike,

thanks for all the effort


cheers,



Pobs

Fran,

Sir Gibbo did the mod for my 'G' model. He rounded them and gave them the correct shape. Since these skins are from one of his models perhaps we can coax him to fix these. But, first, we should let him finish his bi-plane and the P-40. I can wait a bit if you can. I can always revise my skin sets when it makes them better.

And, I have B&W photos of the 3U+ A D Hptmn Georg Christl GruppenKommandeur III/ZG26,
then 3U+ D S , G S, K S, N S, X S, C S, Y S, and W S .
Any photos or plates of the other 8 Staffel machines would be a great help.

and, finally, thanks guys.

Hi Mike,
glad to hear about this "cosmetic surgery" of the 110. Thx guys for all your efforts! The earlier Bf 110s featured smaller rudders because of their weaker engines.
The 110 I was talking about was 3 U + Z T, thus from 9./ZG 26. So nothing for IM...
But I´ve got 3 U + C S for you - as background of a desert Fiat G.50.

http://weltkrieg2.de/Waffen/Kampfflugzeu...hters-px800.jpg
http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Bf-110/Bf-110-ZG26.8-(3U+CS).html

Caption (K.Merrick´s "Luftwaffe camouflage and markings Vol.1")is as follows:
"Bf 110s also arrived in North Africa in full European camouflage, and underwent a similar process of repainting as time and battle conditions allowed. This Bf 110D of 8./ZG 26 wore 71/02/65 and as with the Bf109s in the previous photographs, both types carried only the fuselage tactical marking of a white band..."
The colour pic IMO shows a rather brownish tinge for the camo colours so I would also agree with an interpretation like for 3U+ZT:
"Bf 110C 3U+ZT was captured near Derna. An eyewitness account of this aircraft described it as having two-tone brown upper surfaces. The camouflage is rather dark and may have been in 79 and 80; the latter, when sprayed in thinned down form to produce the heavy side mottling, produced a brownish colour effect". IMO this might fit for 3U+CS as well.

http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Bf-110/Bf-110-ZG26.9-(3U+ZT)/pages/1-Bf-110F-9.ZG26-(3U+ZT)-Sicily-1941-01.html
http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Bf-110/Bf-110-ZG26.9-(3U+ZT).html

So you might be able choose between a dusted standard camo, a thinly oversprayed standard camo or the proposed 79/80 combination
Certainly you know the set of propaganda shots with 3U+KS flying over the Med together with SB+GD. SB+GD still wears its factory code but most certainly was assigned to 8./ZG 26...

Btw, did you use this list?

http://www.asisbiz.com/Bf-110.html

Danke Fran.

Here is the 3rd schwarm

3U+CS


3U+DS


3U+KS


3U+NS

Yummie skins Mike! Top draw!!