Thread: Messerschmitt Me 109 F

I thought I'd do a quick re-colour of my Me 109.

As it is currently in a "Tunisia 1943" look it shouldn't take much to make it into a Hans-Joachim Marseille, "The Star of Africa" version.

Research has left me with two questions.

• The victories painted on the tail. Are they on both sides or the port side only?
• The upper camo' colour could either be a yellow sand or a brown sand. Any idea which he used? From the time scale I'd say he had the yellow sand as this was used in the earlier part of the war.

Thanks for the help

Cheers JTF

Not sure which machine you mean by the "star of Africa" version. Of the top of my head I am aware of four tropicalised machines that he flew. The last one was "yellow 14". Can't remember the werk nummer but I've got a profile somewhere!
It would have had the 100 in a wreath and then the other victory bars beneath. Again not sure but usually this would only be on the port side of the rudder.
My money is on RLM 79 - the brown one.
I'll try to find the relevant references at home.
Steve

hi jtf ,nice card model,what a co-incidence too ,im just in the process of obtaining a model of marseilles 109 after reading about his exploits.im hoping to get a 1/72 kubelwagen too as he had his own personal one which he called "otto".Not sure about the colour ,as for the markings i would have thought the victory tally was only on one side ,the port according to photos.Maybe you could get a card kubelwagen to go with the plane(if they make card models of armour?) cheers tony

Thanks for the input guys.

My source picture has a Wk-Nr 10137 and only has a "10" in the wreath.

"Simmers Paint Shop" has two RLM 79's. one used between 1939-1942 and the other 1942-1945. The lighter, yellowish, was used in the up to 1942 so I'll go with that.

Common opinion has the victory bars on the port side.

The Kubelwagen is a good idea, I'll have a look to see what's about.

If you want to see paper tanks have a look here. http://ecardmodels.com/shop/index.php?cPath=28_30

Cheers JTF