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Title: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: oakranger on June 13, 2010, 01:52:40 AM
Surprise that that a skin was not made yet.  Has anyone looked into it yet?
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: lyric1 on June 13, 2010, 10:23:59 AM
This one?

(http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af142/barneybolac/ju87_005.jpg)

I would say not enough info on this plane as well as it is an aircraft in AHII that is bound to be updated so not much interest would be my guess.
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: USRanger on June 13, 2010, 11:20:59 AM
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it is an aircraft in AHII that is bound to be updated

Yeah, but what year will will that be? :angel:

Sweet skin!
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: Motherland on June 13, 2010, 04:02:25 PM
This one?

(http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af142/barneybolac/ju87_005.jpg)

I would say not enough info on this plane as well as it is an aircraft in AHII that is bound to be updated so not much interest would be my guess.
I believe that's a B model
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: oakranger on June 13, 2010, 09:40:52 PM
This one?

(http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/af142/barneybolac/ju87_005.jpg)

I would say not enough info on this plane as well as it is an aircraft in AHII that is bound to be updated so not much interest would be my guess.

that is the only pic that i seen a Ju87 w/ shark mouth
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: lyric1 on June 13, 2010, 11:20:32 PM
Can any one identify the squadron logo on the noses of the other planes? That may be helpful.
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: Krusty on June 13, 2010, 11:37:05 PM
Larger pic, more grainy but a bit clearer.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3368/3227827735_862d781076_o.jpg)


EDIT: P.S. Look at those exhausts, has to be VERY early B models, but after the giant spats were removed?

EDIT2:

Wings pallete seems to think they belong to STG 77.

profile1
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/b/29/2/1/9

and

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http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww2/b/29/2/1/9_b1

Not concrete, but perhaps a starting place to look, for anybody interested.
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: oakranger on June 14, 2010, 12:02:26 AM
It is a good start.  still trying to figure out that marking. 
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: Larry on June 14, 2010, 12:06:34 AM
From ''Luftwaffe Camouflage and Markings 1933-1945 Vol. 2" (External Stores) Pg. 403



Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: oakranger on June 14, 2010, 12:13:01 AM
Good find larry.
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: Larry on June 14, 2010, 07:47:20 PM
Yeah I remember seeing that picture before I just had to search my books for it.
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: oakranger on June 14, 2010, 09:30:13 PM
Yeah I remember seeing that picture before I just had to search my books for it.

Here is some info regarding that Ju-87 that i got from another forum. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_art (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_art)
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: oakranger on June 14, 2010, 09:35:28 PM
Here is another pic of it in flight.  Look, he is smiling. 

(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp20/skbluestem/Ju-87.jpg)
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: Makoyouidiot on June 16, 2010, 07:22:42 PM
Sharkteeth = win. So sayeth the Mako.  :aok
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: beau32 on June 17, 2010, 07:48:24 PM
Pilot: Major Alfons Orthofer. Standard camouflage: upper surfaces RLM 70 and 71, lower surfaces RLM 65. A impressive shark's mouth was briefly painted on this machine on the occasion of a report for 'Signal' magazine, no doubt to make it even more threatening. A photograph of the same machine taken a few months later shows it without the shark's teeth, but wearing the unit's insignia under the windshield.


(http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Ju-87B-Stuka/Ju-87B-SG77.3-(S2+AC)-Orthofer/images/0-Ju-87B-III.SG77-(S2+AC)-Orthofer-Germany-1939-0A.jpg)

(http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Ju-87B-Stuka/Ju-87B-SG77.3-(S2+AC)-Orthofer/images/0-Ju-87B-III.SG77-(S2+AC)-Orthofer-Germany-1939-0B.jpg)

(http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Ju-87B-Stuka/Ju-87B-SG77.3-(S2+AC)-Orthofer/images/0-Ju-87B-III.SG77-(S2+AC)-Orthofer-Germany-1939-0C.jpg)
Title: Re: JU-87 w/ shark mouth
Post by: Krusty on June 17, 2010, 07:54:06 PM
A impressive shark's mouth was briefly painted on this machine on the occasion of a report for 'Signal' magazine, no doubt to make it even more threatening. A photograph of the same machine taken a few months later shows it without the shark's teeth, but wearing the unit's insignia under the windshield.

Very interesting. Does that mean it never saw combat like that? It was just a publicity stunt? (The LW was known for propoganda!)