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Once again the photo king comes through for his subjects. Many thanks good sire.
Jeff
Interesting that the squadron codes seem to have been edited out of the pics.
You can see some on birds in the background and the pic with the motorcycle and sidecar in though !
Jan, I would really love to see that build.
Jeff, the eligibility of that kit would works for me.
Karl, I've never been 100% happy with how my home-made decals come out but would be prepared to give your project a go. If you want to send me what you have as a file, feel free.
Myself, I'm looking forward to this build and have lots of possibilities:
Bf109G-14 Hasegawa
Bf109K-4 Hasegawa
FW190A-5 "Special" Dragon
FW190A-8 Eduard
Spitfire MkIXe Eduard
Spitfire MkXVI ICM
Ta152H-1 DML
Tempest MkV Eduard
Typhoon MkIb Hasegawa (2)
Will definitely do a late war LW bird, probably the Ta152 first and possibly one of the 2 Tiffies in the stash in Canadian markings.
There are some in those pics Karl. I wonder if the pictures without the codes were taken earlier and they had been painted over originally and then added back later. If they have been edited out then the editor did a pretty good job, much better than what I usually see in wartime editing pictures.
I know it can be tough determining colours and shading and stuff but it appears to me that these photos are not all taken on the same day as the drop tanks appear to be different. ie: picture 2 the drop tank appears to be whit while in picture 5 it appears much darker.
Thoughts anyone?
I would say the pictures no.3 and 4 were taken with using of a colour filter. The first and the second image seems to be taken without the correction.
The enlarged second shot reveals that the individual letter wasn't the "B". Rather it was the "F" or "E".
The third and the fourth image show that there was the "D" letter , either overpainted or censored at the black strip , applied. Of course it isn't sure these images were taken at the same time ( day ). Also the ground of the parking area looks different. However the serial starts with MW letters. It is possible the plane might be taken over from another unit and then the new code letters were painted on the strips. The censorship is very possible too.
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