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Nicely done, good looking build. Although I think the 'Zero' you saw in the museum was actually a converted T-6 Texan, by the look of it..

who came up with those colours...?

A simpler (and quicker) option might be to look for pics of any other G-10s from the 610 series and use that as a basis for your build. You will probably find that they all left the factory in a similar - but sadly un-remarkable - mid/late war 74/75/76 scheme..

Hi all There may well be a book or two on this, but if there is then I don't have them.. Is there a resource anywhere which details the various different contractors involved in producing the V1..? I presume that Fieseler was the prime contractor, I believe the pulse motors were made by Argus. The warheads, I presume, would have been built elsewhere and supplied complete, as were the wings, I think. I'm not looking for details of how many factories supplied every single part (ie gyro, electrical system, etc), just the main component airframe parts. The main reason for the question is I see a lot of original V1 pictures where there is evidence of pre-painted or 'non-matching finish' components - so presumably the V1 was subject to the same type of distributed manufacturing as other late-war Luftwaffe aircraft - I'm just trying to get a rough idea of how many differing component parts would have been bolted together during final assembly. Hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance..

My only comment is one of 'logic' - namely - 'why go to all the trouble of developing new paint colours and recipes, only to then suggest mixing them with existing paint stocks?' Trying to apply logic to a confused late-war situation is probably not ideal anyway...

6 inches in 1/1 - just over 3mm in 1/48. Doesn't sound like much, but it is noticeable. But the OP's question, as I understood it, related to cockpits..

No differences that would be discernible in 1/48. Cockpit detail is barely visible in the 190 in any case - mainly due to fuselage shape and instrument panel coaming, so even major differences would probably go un-noticed..

Vallejo has a colour called 'German red/brown primer' (70.605) which is a pretty good match. It's actually more of a red than a brown, despite what it might look like online..

Some may have seen this already, but there's a fascinating read here, on Rudel's 'surrender' in Kitzingen, with some excellent pics of the event and the aftermath, including pics of the planes they flew in on.. https://www.historynet.com/the-iron-eagles-last-flight/

It could definitely be 'some other' aircraft....

Just seen an announcement on FB that Walter Eichhorn - highly-regarded warbird pilot - has died. I believe he was 88. Here he is doing his thing - and doing it brilliantly well...

Lying on its left side, I would say. Ju188D may or may not be correct, but it certainly seems close. If only that GI would get out of the way..

Certainly seems a very close match for the 'D' version. I hadn't realised before now that the glazing pattern differed between 188 sub-types...

Ju188D certainly looks like a good bet. We might have a winner...

So we've ruled out: Siebel 204 Ar234 Fw191 He111 He177 Ju188 Ju388 Ju88S We can probably also rule out Do17E/M/P & K as well as Do217M. We are running out of Luftwaffe aircraft with a glass front....