A couple of well-known pics of this aircraft, show the colour scheme as RLM 74/75/76, with a mottle on the fuselage sides, and the green Reichs defence tail band. The rudder was still white, a left-over from service in the MTO, and the aircraft bore the Gruppenkommandeur 'winkel', which appears to be solid black (no white outline), with a 'solid' central section.
Some profiles, and models, portray the aircraft with a yellow lower cowling, although I haven't seen this mentioned in caption descriptions, and after studying the photos, the tones suggest that the lower cowling panel was the same colour as the rest of the undersides, RLM 76.
I would welcome opinions on this.
Also, the front section of the spinner appears to
possibly be a slightly different tone, but this might just be the effect of lighting and prop blur. I'm guessing the spinner was black, possibly part matt, part semi-matt, as seen in photos of some other 'G' models. Again, opinions are welcome.
Pics of some other aircraft from this unit, show a light-coloured segment, probably white, on the spinners of some, but not all, aircraft, but this does not seem to be present on Franzisket's machine.
Something I would like opinions and / or advice on, is the gun breech blister on the starboard side - would this be the 'standard', early, plain blister, or would it have the extra bulge at the lower, forward edge, which I believe covered an auxiliary pump ?
The kit includes both styles and, from memory, I seem to recall that the second type of blister was associated with cabin pressurisation ?
The model will be built mainly 'OOB', but I will be adding a little extra detail to the cockpit, even though the canopy will be closed, and I'll also add brake lines and antenna wires etc.
Markings will be from the kit decals and the spare decals files, although I will probably have to reverse mask and paint the solid winkels, along with the green tail band.
Pics of the subject aircraft below, along with two differing profile samples.