Bf109-K4 skin of a 109-G10 of 14./JG301 'Red 7' 1945.

August 16, 2021

Fw190_Luftwurger posted up a beautiful profile made by Claes Sundin and being a fan of his work and liking dirty aircraft it was too nice to resist. I know nothing else about the aircraft other than it belonged to 14./JG301 in 1945. Please feel free to fill in the blanks.

https://mega.nz/file/0gEglDjI#5wLGwEo21r15VfhQ1k0JeK8XBL5Wl4zLP2oN_sZDMgI

August 16, 2021

Thanks flobee! looks great.

Any chance of doing a skin of sister aircraft "Red 1" from JG301 I also posted?

Sorry, I have no further into or photos.

I have attached a photo of a different G-10 that possibly would make a nice skin.

Yellow or white 14 with similar camouflage. Not sure if you consider working from just photos.

August 16, 2021

Thanks. I’m still working on a couple of things that I noticed so I can put a 1 on the next version when I get it done. It is great having the freedom to use paints and patterns but crossing the dds cut lines is a nightmare when it comes to matching up tones. As you can see from period photos shapes and shades but little else leaves a huge amount of guesswork. It just so happens I saw artist profiles of 1, 14 and 44 this morning. They are very similar to red 7 in colours just the mottle and dirt is varied which sounds reasonable. I wonder though who nailed the colours down initially.

August 16, 2021

Great skinning Flowbee :o: !!!

Yellow or white 14 with similar camouflage would be an Easter egg to community...

I hade to make it myself, can't resist :

P.S.

I'm great fun of plane weathering, but K4 is not historical example... due to life fact that most of them - had very short operational life span... being flown by the kids trained to take off and land... barely surviving one month from factory delivery, when faced with desperate encounters with P-51D flocks all over the Reich in 1945, both in sky or ambush in airfield approach. In fact, production was not matching poor remains of experienced/well trained Luftwaffe pilots. ( let alone lack of natural fuel )

There are heaps of weathered K4 photos - but 90% of them were made by allied photographers after the war... showing abandoned, not maintained or damaged planes, left over the former Reich after surrender...

Edited August 17, 2021 by esk_pedja
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August 17, 2021

On 8/16/2021 at 8:07 PM, esk_pedja said:

Great skinning Flowbee !!!

Yellow or white 14 with similar camouflage would be an Easter egg to community...

I hade to make it myself, can't resist :

P.S.

I'm great fun of plane weathering, but K4 is not historical example... due to life fact that most of them - had very short operational life span... being flown by the kids trained to take off and land... barely surviving one month from factory delivery...

The Luftwaffe Quartermaster Records noted that between March 1944 and March 1945, a full 50% of LW airframes were destroyed in landing and take-off accidents by inexperienced pilots. Pilot training, which was reactive and haphazard from as early as the Autumn of 1940, never produced the quality or quantity it did in the first year of war. When the LW lost air superiority over the Reich, trainers were shot down, resulting in the loss of an instructor, student and training airframe, many of which could not be easily replaced as nearly all productive capacity was given over to operational types and instructors were in short supply as they were needed for operational flying.

Edited August 17, 2021 by Reggie_Mental

August 17, 2021

16 hours ago, Reggie_Mental said:

The Luftwaffe Quartermaster Records noted that between March 1944 and March 1945, a full 50% of LW airframes were destroyed in landing and take-off accidents by inexperienced pilots.

Loss of airframes in landing and take-off accidents, doesn't mean necessarily loss of pilot's life, especially at "domestic" Reich fields... Bf-109 was notorious for landing instability due to narrow positioning of landing gear ( towards center of gravity )... but all sorts of weird landings (some caused by combat-damage instability) does not men the death of young pilot with a tight seat belts... but let us leave this topic to the Flowbee skinning art !

Edited August 17, 2021 by esk_pedja

August 17, 2021

K4 skin for a 109G10 Red 1 of 14./JG301

And a K4 skin for a 109G10 White 14 0f 13./JG301.

(If you look closely at the photo then the number looks more akin to the white of the Balken cross than the yellow of the band. The 4 has just caught more mud in my opinion but the 1 clinches it for me.)

At some point the mass production got me confused because the red 1 in the art pic is different from the red 1 skin. I think the red 1 was intended for the white 14. While the white 14 ended up halfway between the 7 and the 1. And the 1 then got left in limbo. I think somewhere in the folder is an updated red 7. Looking at them laid out now it looks like the red 1 mottle went astray. I might come back on that one with an update. :wacko: Not going to try that again in a hurry..