Saturday, November 16, 2013

Bf109G-6 found at Kassel

http://www.cptfarrels.com/blog/Bf109G-6_TT_Yellow 5_1200.jpg

This Bf109G-6 was found by US troops at the Henschel Aero Engine works in Kassel. The colorphoto of this aircraft is quite wellknown but new B&W photos of this aircraft has surfaced revealing more interesting detail. The enginecowling is a replacement in a different camoflage than the rest of the aircraft. Interestingly, it's mottled all over, there's no color covering the top as on regular camoflage schemes for the 109. The starboard wing also seems to be a replacement, the color of the undersurface being different than the rest of the aircraft but very similar to the enginecowling. In all likelyhood, a replacement in RLM 74/75/76. The port wing has the same color as the main fuselage but with some natural metal showing through. 

All that aside, the most interesting detail to me is that the close-up pictures shows a complete set of stencils on the fuselage, more or less proving that Bf109G's was at least to some extent delivered from the Mtt Regensburg factory in latewar colors.

Update: Thanks to some questions from John Irwin I've been able to see some new details and the profile has been updated accordingly. 

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great, Anders!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for this updated profile Anders.
Franck.

Anders said...

Hey Franck, Thank you! I was just writing about you, see the new post above! ;)

FalkeEins said...



...super work as usual!

cheers,

Neil

Simon said...

Great work Anders!

Anonymous said...

I would love to build a model of this aircraft. Do you have any links to additional pictures of the real thing? Nothing turned up on a Google search. Great work!

Anders said...

Contact me via the e-mail address in the top right corner and I'll help you out.

Anonymous said...

Good work Anders,
why did you have removed the basement of the "Peilrahmen" on the back of the fuselage?
Greetings,
Falcon

Anders said...

Sorry, must have gone in the process of removing something else. I'll have it back ASAP

Anonymous said...

Hi Anders,

And what about the fin?
Didn't check the actual photos but was there a concave curve like that on real trailing edge thing? :)

Good stuff however. Thanks.

Franck.

Anonymous said...

... Hmmm or you did add a tab??? I need to check, really!

Anders said...

You got it Franck :)

How accurate it is I'll leave to someone else to judge, I haven't researched that particular detail. (Yet...) :)

Anonymous said...

Here is my model of this particular aircraft. Thank you Anders, for all of your help on this!

http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=273838&st=100