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  1. 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..
  2. who came up with those colours...?
  3. 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..
  4. 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..
  5. 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. 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..
  7. 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..
  8. 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..
  9. 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/
  10. It could definitely be 'some other' aircraft....
  11. 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...
  12. 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..
  13. 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...
  14. Ju188D certainly looks like a good bet. We might have a winner...
  15. 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....
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