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#3437545 - 11/20/11 12:13 AM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II **** [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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#3437616 - 11/20/11 03:10 AM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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#3476642 - 12/18/11 10:56 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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New one uploaded today - the Bf109E-1 flown by Rudolf Rothenfelder of 9./JG2. Always depicted with yellow number but I'm convinced that 9./JG2 used brown at the time. Several photos, including the photos of Rothefelders aircraft show numerals way darker than the yellow of the fuel triangle. Brown was used instead of yellow by some staffeln so it's nothing strange about it.


#3477140 - 12/19/11 06:57 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Very nice Capt.! Thanks.


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#3477179 - 12/19/11 07:47 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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A mosquito! smile

Looks really. Surely there must be some written sources about the colour of those letters?

A tiny nit-picking comment: The fuel triangle "decal" looks a good deal bigger in the photos shown than it does in your skins. Compare to the height of the white bit of the fuselage Balkankreuz...


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#3477204 - 12/19/11 08:15 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Freycinet]  
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Couldn't agree more regarding the fuel stencil but it's hardcoded so nothing to do about that at the moment.

Regarding the numberals, it may be written yellow although the color was brown as it was generally accepted that brown was allowed in use as a substitute for yellow as the color of the third staffel within a gruppe. I just think that many skinners and profileartists have been taking yellow for granted, following the standard colors and not checking the shade against other known yellow areas. I did the same mistake at first too.

Rothenfelder himself has written about the mosquito emblem though as he was the one who designed it. It was black on a yellow disc, but it has been believed to be white due to it being lighter than the "yellow" of the numerals :=)

9./JG2 did change their numerals to proper yellow later on.

#3481309 - 12/26/11 03:24 AM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Could it have been red? I know that early on, some markings were in red, and in fact 5./JG27 kept the red/black outline long after it was supposed to be changed. Red also looks pretty close to yellow/brown in some of the old black-n-whites.

#3482665 - 12/28/11 02:15 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: cheesehawk]  
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Maybe, but as I recall I compared the red of the "Richthofen R" to the numerals and they didn't quite match either. At least not in the photos I looked at. There's some lovely shots in the Luftwaffe im Focus 109 special that shows a 9./JG2 aircraft real well.

#3482669 - 12/28/11 02:18 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Two new Bf109E-4's up today. I think most of you have seen the filmclip of Detlev Rohwers "Chevron Circle" as it's often featured in documentaries. Günther Lützows Chevron Triangle is quite wellknown too. I even tried to somewhat match the screenshots with actual photos, just for the fun of it...




#3482722 - 12/28/11 04:15 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Excellent as always, Lutzow's plane is one of my favorite camo schemes, thanks!

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#3483248 - 12/29/11 05:18 AM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Those are really nice. thumbsup


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#3483354 - 12/29/11 12:46 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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I'm on fire now! Three more today, all E-1's from JG52. All heavily mottled.

First up is Paul Boche's White 2 that crashlanded in England on October 8:th.



Next is another 4./JG52 "White 2" flown by Erich Mummert who crashed in England on September 30:th. Despite the short time between crashes both the numeral style and enginecowling is different.



Finally, a 6./JG52 aircraft with an unknown pilot, with equally heavy mottling. All three of these schemes are often given as RLM 70/71 due to their dark appearance but looking at small visible parts of the wings and elevators it seems that they were regular 02/71 schemes with the sides very densly mottled in 70 and 71.


#3484631 - 12/31/11 07:01 AM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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#3484633 - 12/31/11 07:04 AM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Another group of very nice skins. thumbsup


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#3484733 - 12/31/11 01:58 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Two more before the end of the year! These are JG53, a unit which never dissapoints when it comes to innovative paintschemes. The III./JG53 aircraft flown by Erich Scmidt is from the period when they flew without the swastika so I haven't forgot it, it's supposed to look like that.




#3485902 - 01/02/12 02:05 PM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Happy New Year! Here's two more Bf109E-4's. The first one was flown by Harro Harder of III./JG53 in July 1940. Harro was killed on August 11:th 1940 but evidently in another aircraft as this one became Erich Schmidt's regular aircraft in November - and included in my previous post.

Second aircraft is the aircraft of the famous JG51 Kommodore Werner Mölders.




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Thank you Cpt Farrel!! Moelders is going into a mission I'm making, with your permission (and it will be credited).

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#3512222 - 02/06/12 12:11 AM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Bump!

Any good Abbeville boys skins out there?

I am looking for one for a movie!


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#3512472 - 02/06/12 11:05 AM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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I have a few at my site, but what date and sub-unit are you planning to depict? I might be able to fix something although perhaps not until the weekend...

#3512483 - 02/06/12 11:54 AM Re: Cpt Farrels skinthread Mk II [Re: Cpt_Farrel]  
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Just a nice beautiful representative one. It is for an upcoming movie similar to my Spittie tutorial. If it can even have an SD code on the side that would be magnificent, since they are my initials. smile :O

But more important would be to have a good representative skin. Can you give me the link to the particular skins you think of?


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