Month: November 2015
1/32 Zoukei-Mura Ta152 H1. Flown by Oberfeldwebel Willie Reschke.
1/32 Zoukei-Mura Ta152 H1. Flown by Oberfeldwebel Willie Reschke.
1/48 Eduard BF 109 G6, Stab III./JG 11, Maj. Anton Hackl, Oldenburg Germany August 1943
1/48 Eduard
BF 109 G6, Stab III./JG 11, Maj. Anton Hackl, Oldenburg Germany August 1943
HANS DORTENMANN, 2./JG 54 Grünherz, Eastern front, February 1944
HANS DORTENMANN, 2./JG 54 Grünherz, Eastern front, February 1944
This aircraft carries a winter whitewash over the standard camouflage, which is evident in random areas where the water soluble paint has washed off. It was with this aircraft that Dortenmann bellied in at Orsha Süd Air base on the 6th of February, 1944, after losing three feet off his port wing in a collision with a Soviet fighter. In a rear hemisphere attack against his target, and at a height of some 200m, he misjudged his distance. His intended target was probably a fighter flown by Capt Ivan Mikhailovich Astakhov of 49 IAP. Having been killed in this encounter, the collision with Black “7” was classified as a “taran” attack and considered Astakhov’s twelfth victory (another seven being shared). He was awarded a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. It was Dortenmann’s first confirmed victory. Prior to his transfer to the west, he shot down a further fourteen Soviet aircraft, including four Il-2 Sturmoviks. He totaled 38 kills, and was awarded the Iron Cross.
Bf109 G-2 of 11./JG52. Summer of 1942. Flown by Hauptmann Johannes Steinhoff.
Bf109 G-2 of 11./JG52. Summer of 1942. Flown by Hauptmann Johannes Steinhoff.
1/48 HobbyBoss Bf109 F-4 /Trop Werke Nummer 10137 flown by Hans Joachim Marseille. June 1942. Final score in this airplane would be 101 victories.
1/48 HobbyBoss Bf109 F-4 /Trop Werke Nummer 10137 flown by Hans Joachim Marseille. June 1942.
Final score in this airplane would be 101 victories.
1/48 Eduard Bf 109G-2 ‘Yellow 5’ flown by Leutnant Walter Krupinski, 6./JG 52, August 1942
1/48 Eduard Bf 109G-2 ‘Yellow 5’ flown by Leutnant Walter Krupinski, 6./JG 52, August 1942
1/48 Eduard Bf109 G-2 White 4 flown by Oberleutnant Theodor Weissenberger, Staffelkapitan 7./JG5, July 1943.
1/48 Eduard Bf109 G-2
White 4 flown by Oberleutnant Theodor Weissenberger, Staffelkapitan 7./JG5, July 1943.
1/48 Eduard Supermarine Spitfire HF.Mk.VIII, JF322/”Billy Boy II”
1/48 Eduard Supermarine Spitfire HF.Mk.VIII, JF322/”Billy Boy II” of First Squadron, South African Air Force, Flown by Lt. D.S. Hastie on 19 March 1944 to down a Bf109G.
1/48 Hasegawa Bf 109G-6, W.Nr. 165267, 1/HleLv 34, Taipalsaari airfield, July, 1944
Eino Luukkanen was in the cockpit of this airplane while achieving his 56th confirmed victory. He downed a Soviet Yak-9 fighter flown by Lt. G. F. Nizhnik on August 5, 1944 over Narva Bay. This Yak was the only aircraft downed by the guns of MT-451. The aircraft was delivered to Finland on June 23, 1943. The former German Werk Nummer is visible on the rudder. Two underwing cannon pods were mounted and there was no artwork on the rudder at that time. The fledgling eagle was painted later on. MT-451 was written off after an accident on August 25, 1947.
