Me 410 skins compendium

[moot]

Is here!  Will be.

[FTJR]

Drum roll (waiting for Lyric)

[lyric1]

Drum roll (waiting for Lyric)

Book is in the mail. Should have got here yesterday.

[lyric1]

Book is in the mail. Should have got here yesterday.

Meteor book arrived 3 days ago already had the Yak 3 stuff.

[Krusty]

I would like to do Yellow 7... but I will wait for HTC to announce the loadouts. Yellow 7 was a single seater with no rear guns or rear gunner. Wouldn't quite fit IMO if that's not an option.

[moot]

This first batch is from the "wings palette" Russian website.  Maybe half of what that website puts up is not up to HTC reference standards.  So anything you see in this batch of paint schemes, you would have to do the research yourself to make sure it's a legit paint scheme. 

Next, some of these are recon birds.  I don't know the rules for that.  At least one some of these had guns (I got a pic of one with MK103s clearly visible).  So again research required for these.

Next, there's some "unknown" paint schemes.  They could be 210s or 410s, could be bogus fantasy or just be missing the historical info.  I don't know enough and don't have enough time/motivation to sort them out, so here they are in case any of em spark someone's curiosity.  The 210s should be easy enough to ID (longer tail for one thing, or the serial (410xxx means it's a 410), or the unit markings).  IDing 'em is your responsibility

I don't know what Seenotgruppe were exactly - if they did recon or if they actually shot at things.  I'm guessing the latter if they're a maritime group, so I'm including those schemes.

[moot]

below is above's top-down view:

[moot]

RECON









Caption for this one: 

Me.410A-3 (or B-3 ?)
Unit: 5./F/Auff.Gr.122
Serial: F6+AN
Beldringe, Denmark, May 1945. Finish is the usual dull RLM74/75/76 with evidence of overpainiting in RLM74 over previous code letters. Letter 'A' is red with a white outline. Note the outline crosses on the fuselage which have been roughly infilled with grey or green. Upperwing crosses were probably simple white outlines, while those underwing were black with a white outline.

[moot]

Unknowns




















That's probably it for Wings Palette. 

[Krusty]

Definitely some good starting points there.

I'm not calling dibs, but I will say I'd like to see a number: a green uppers, a black underside, a heavily mottled sides, a squiggle pattern or night camo, a grey overall.

I will call dibs on a KG51 with the leftover red/yellow tailbands, but there are a number of different codes to choose from.

[lyric1]

Guessing they will let skins in on the 210.

[moot]

If they allowed 210 skins it'd mean lots of nice Hungarian tricolor schemes.  Question is - do they?

Note to self - post pics of some 410s with big letter on nose

[Krusty]

I will definitely be asking them that very question. I'd like to personally do a certain Hungarian 210C skin.

[oakranger]

If they allowed 210 skins it'd mean lots of nice Hungarian tricolor schemes.  Question is - do they?

Note to self - post pics of some 410s with big letter on nose

Kristy and i just has a disucsion about that.  I agree with him that we should include the 210 skin onto the 410. 

[Krusty]

.... unless they might add the 210 as well?...