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Between the Wars...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf108B Taifun Austrian Airforce


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What the Versailles Treaty was for Germany, the St.Germain Treaty was for Austria after the end of WW1.
Austria´s military wasn´t allowed to have a standing army bigger than 30.000 men, no heavy artillery, no tanks and no aircraft.
Nevertheless, like Germany, Austria secretly formed a Fliegerkorps in 1927 with Austrian, British and German built aircraft. In 1928 the pilot training started, a technical infrastructure was built up and further aircraft ordered in Italy. The first of the latter ones arrived in 1933. Two Fliegerregiment were formed and stationed in Wien-Aspern and Graz-Thalerhof. And finally in 1936 the typical Austrian roundel was introduced.

On April 22nd 1937 the Austrian Airforce ordered a single Bf108 which arrived in Wien-Aspern on July 27th 1937. In October 1937 a wing broke off during flight and the aircraft crsahed, killing all 4 crewmembers.

Eduard kit (old black boxing), added handgrips on the roof and rudder joints from the sparebox.
The aircraft was painted in blue, most likely Messerschmitt factory blue (RAL5008) so my dad made a selfmix. Wooden propeller from the Eduard Brassin line.
The Luftwaffe style letter decals are from Fantasy Printshop. Couldn´t find the correct number style decals, especially in that small size, for the rudder, therefore used some US Navy style decals from Superscale.

 

 

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On 19.2.2017 at 0:51 AM, Knight_Flyer said:

Very nice build, good seeing a Taifun in a different livery.  All the builds I've seen have been in a desert camo.

:D yes, the Sonderkommando Blaich birds are everywhere

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