Beautiful!

Very nice.


Wheels

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.

Very nice Capt.! Thanks.

A mosquito!

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

Excellent as always, Lutzow's plane is one of my favorite camo schemes, thanks!

~S!