Hmmmm, I am not sure if this fits this category. But, ...
My built Luftwaffe a/c are expanding beyond my display cases, both in size an quantity. So I am planning of setting up a little airfield diorama in my hobby room to display the planes. I have a plexiglas cover from an old train set that should prevent dust built up.
So I am working on some little stuff to populate the diorama, like some scratch built buildings (only the fronts), equipment, carts etc. picturing a Luftwafgfe airfiled during the war (although, it will be a mix between airport, landing strip, early war, late war)
Now, on some pictures I found flags that obviously have been used on the field. I guess for purposes like indicating a free runway, wave planes of, telling the pilot his undercarriage is still in etc. For example, I have several times seen a flag with a lying dark cross on a white (?) background. Unfortunately in the b&w pictures you cannot tell the colors (duh!). The cross seems not to be dark enough for black or dark blue....
So my question is: Does anybody have a good reference for thoise kind of flags? Colors, purpose and such?
Thanks for your help!
CharlieB
My built Luftwaffe a/c are expanding beyond my display cases, both in size an quantity. So I am planning of setting up a little airfield diorama in my hobby room to display the planes. I have a plexiglas cover from an old train set that should prevent dust built up.
So I am working on some little stuff to populate the diorama, like some scratch built buildings (only the fronts), equipment, carts etc. picturing a Luftwafgfe airfiled during the war (although, it will be a mix between airport, landing strip, early war, late war)
Now, on some pictures I found flags that obviously have been used on the field. I guess for purposes like indicating a free runway, wave planes of, telling the pilot his undercarriage is still in etc. For example, I have several times seen a flag with a lying dark cross on a white (?) background. Unfortunately in the b&w pictures you cannot tell the colors (duh!). The cross seems not to be dark enough for black or dark blue....
So my question is: Does anybody have a good reference for thoise kind of flags? Colors, purpose and such?
Thanks for your help!
CharlieB
