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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Devil 505 on January 26, 2024, 12:10:39 AM
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Bf 109G-14/AS of 8./Jg 27. Pilot unknown. This aircraft was found wrecked and abandoned at Rheine-Hopsten in early 1945. That airfield served as II/Jg27's home between November 1944 and March 1945.
This aircraft, a Regensburg built G-14/AS, features camouflage on the wings and fuselage in the gray RLM 74/75 over 76 scheme, with a tail and rudder unit in the late brown and green RLM 81/82 colors. Hazy splotches of RLM 76 cover some portions of the tail. The green tail band of Jg 27 wraps the fuselage aft of the cross. The four digits of the Werk Nummer are indeed stepped downward to the right and not just painted with a slant.
Based on established precedent, I skinned this aircraft on the vanilla G-14. However, I believe that like the G-10's, that the nearly identical G-14/AS's should be skinned on our K-4. The engine performance and speed gained from the aerodynamic cowling make them much closer to the K-4 than the stock G-14. I may break precedent in the future in the case of a G-14/AS that is known to have a 30mm cannon fitted.
(https://i.postimg.cc/gk5HXkdR/Blue-11-1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/zVCg4NyX)
(https://i.postimg.cc/Pqnby3C5/Blue-11-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/9D1qFBP6)
(https://i.postimg.cc/x1zyKDTZ/Blue-11-3.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/VJzC8ht9)
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:aok
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Very nice.
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Very nice Devil. :aok
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Great looking skin Devil.
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Beautiful. Interesting the solid crosses underwing are, at this later stage of the War - I thought they had gone to stenciled outlines of the cross by this stage?
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Beautiful. Interesting the solid crosses underwing are, at this later stage of the War - I thought they had gone to stenciled outlines of the cross by this stage?
It varied pretty wildly in the late war period, even within a single factory's production. It seems that with Regensburg G-14's that it was either black centers with white brackets (the usual mid-war spec) or just the black center as with this skin.
The late war style you're more familiar with were mostly found on G-10's and K-4's