Luftwaffe Experts: (Pics)

[Shay]

What details can you guys tell me about these aircraft?







Thanks


Shay
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[peter]

nice models

[Steve Nelson]

I'd say 1/48. The 109 may be the old Revell kit, and the 262 possibly Monogram. Nice job on the camo.

SN

[Shay]

nice models

Umm,.....yes Peter thank you for that insight (**smacks forehead** why is it always the Canadians?, Shay thinks to himself ). They are in fact models, but that is not what I was referring to. I was asking more along the line or model types and units.

Shay
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Last edited by Shay on Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:43 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Shay]

I'd say 1/48. The 109 may be the old Revell kit, and the 262 possibly Monogram. Nice job on the camo.

SN

Actually 109 is Hasegawa 1/32 and the Swallow is the 1/48 monogram

But what units are depicted? I know hardly anything when comes to Luftwaffe units and markings.

Shay
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[Saville]

nice models

hahaha ok I give up - how can you tell they are models? The canopy glass on the 262 looks a little odd...but other than that, how can you tell?

[Michel Lemieux]

but other than that, how can you tell?

The tires....are inflated to a gazillion lbs of air

[Saville]

but other than that, how can you tell?

The tires....are inflated to a gazillion lbs of air

ahhh ok thanks!

[Steve Nelson]

I was asking more along the line or model types and units.

Sorry..thought it was another April Fool's prank. The 109 is a K-model, but as for the units, I'm not enough of a Luftwaffephile to tell ofhand.

SN

[lmritger]

Looks like the work of Les King.

Based on the camo, the Bf 109K-4 is most likely from the WNr 332xxx production batch, and could be from any number of different 1. Staffeln... the absence of any other identifying mark means your guess is as good as mine. You could make a good argument for a 1./JG 11 bird, perhaps... The 262 seems more clear-cut, the aircraft of JV 44 carried very boring, uniform schemes with no tail bands or other extraneous markings so I'd say this bird is very representative of that unit.

Cheers,

Lynn

[tom d. friedman]

fooled my eyes!! but i'm wearing a 10 year old glasses prescription!! great job!!

[peter]

you can tell their models by the background ,very nice models too!