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Hmmm! The photos' don't show the cowling 'hump' of the A8 though. Definitely need to check. Bear in mind that the captions in the book I mentioned, are based on the notations that accompany the original Luftwaffe negatives, now held by Bundesarchiv, Koblenz. I'll see if I can verify by checking the Werke nummer.
 

Terry, interested in what you find, if no cowling hump then it is not an A-7, must be one of his A-5's or A-6's.....
 
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Egad, did your wife buy you that battery powered tape measure??? Mine did. I hadn't the heart to tell her it was a useless DOG!!!!
 
Hi, Wayne. Having looked again at the photos of Priller's 190, it must be an A5, as per the Hasegawa kit. The caption points out:- "...mottled rudder, and not yellow as often depicted in drawings of Priller's aircraft. The yellow rudder was...another of .....part of which is shown in the photograph...."
The aircraft refered to has the 'flat topped' number 13, but does not appear to have the playing card on the port side, although it is on the starboard side. The aircraft with the 'rounded' 13 has the card on the port side. However, what the author describes as a mottled rudder, on close inspection, could well be yellow, with the appearance of 'mottle' being caused by the different type of paint, on a fabric surface. The Werke numbers are not readable and, as you pointed out, with research undertaken since this book was published, it could well be that it has been proven that this A/C had a yellow rudder. Personally, I think it has! The photo in qustion, if it's any help, is Archiv Nr. 298/1753/15, and it's one you might have seen, with Priller beside his BMW tourer, in front of the '190, outside a hanger.
Cheers! Terry.
 
Here ya go Terry.

There is another Black 13 which had a short bar behind the number rather than the small circle, not sure whether this aircraft had a camo and marking change to Chevron and bars before or after the 13 or they may well be different aircraft altogether.....

Photo Credits: JG26 Photographic History of the Luftwaffe's Top Guns. Donald L Caldwell.
 

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thanks Wayne. That's the one I meant. Even though the caption to the photo in my book says the rudder is mottled, and even though it POSSIBLY looks mottled in both pics you posted, take a close look at the rudder surface. There is a definite tone difference between the base colour of the fin, and that of the base colour of the rudder. I still think the 'mottling' is density differences on the fabric, and that the rudder very well might be yellow. What do you reckon?
 
Well, there is clearly tonal difference in the tail and rudder. I suspect the rudder IS Yellow and has a light grey mottle.
You can also just pick out tonal difference on the lower cowl from the surrounding RLM 76 Lt.Blue Grey, I also believe that this is yellow as well.

It most certainly fits with the standard practice of Yellow rudders and lower cowls for the time frame. (May - June '43)
 

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Certainly agree, Wayne, the lower cowling is almost certainly yellow. I also think that the mottle on the rudder is 'show through' from the original colours, before the yellow was applied.
 
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