Starting with a collection of Herrmann Buchner?s Schlachtflieger skins for the Bf 109 Emil, from his book "Stormbird".

The first is the Bf 109 E7 from 8./SchG1, Crimea 1942, it?s the plane with which Herrmann Buchner flew his first combat mission ever



i?m not satisfied with the motteling yet, but it?s a good start ... i think

It's a very good start Boelcke. Look forward to the rest of them!

thx m8

before doing the next i want to work on a little more ugly and weary appearance of this plane, those kites where used to the limit under very hard conditions ... working on

Good work Amigo.
I'm also flying your aircraft in Monty's JG-53 Campaign.
You know I'm still puttering around with the idea of
creating larger skins however I'm feeling that it might be a lot of work for nothing .

Hey Detlef das sieht gut aus!! Wenn Du mich fragst w?rde ich weary hin oder her bei den schwarzen Markierungen noch ein wenig nachdunkeln oder kontrastieren damit es auch besser zum schwarzen Spinner passt. Den w?rde daf?r etwas aufhellen. Aber du musst mich ja nicht fragen....


ATB
Armin

Hey Detlef this looks very well - everything else is a secret betweeen you and me.

P.S. i tried to edit the third e in 'between' several times but it doesn't work

guter Tipp Armin

The book from Herrmann Buchner mentioned that some of the SG 1 planes had white tail bands, does someone have sources or informations about this? on the black and white photos it?s hard to reckognize.

Oh cool, I'm always keen to see another Schlachtflieger skin

As for a/c with a white band on the Eastern Front, I've had a quick look through what books I have on the Schlachtgruppen but couldn't find anything. I thought maybe the Hs129s of 8.(Pz)/SchlG 2 could've retained their MTO markings when they arrived in Russia but apparently they went to Poland first to refit and re-equip so I guess they would've removed any such markings.
Or maybe SchlG 1 received aircraft originally intended for the MTO? I don't know much about LW painting procedures so I'm just assuming that theatre bands were applied at the factory.

thx for comment Harry

here the reworked plane:




now i?m more satisfied with the appearance of the colours

first plane is ready ...