Bf109F-4 mediterranean camou

All that I could find is a color profile in "Hitler's Luftwaffe" by Tony Wood/Bill Gunston. It is of a Bf 109F-2/Trop of I/JG77 at Comiso, Sicily during the summer of 1942.

This aircraft is in the standard RLM 74/75/76 scheme with a relatively heavy mottle of 02/70/74 on the fusilage sides running all the way down. It has white lower wing tips, a white fusilage band just touching the after edge of the Balkenkreuz, and a large white number nine just forward of the cross. There is also what appears to be a red and white gruppe emblem just forward of the
windscreen. I can't make out what it is, it is mostly hidden by the wing.

I hope that this is of some small help. I also hope that you do not plan to build the 1/72 Italeri kit. If so, you are in for trouble. What a bow wow! The engine cover panels are too large, the landing gear legs are too long, and the wheels are much too large. Good luck.

Pete

hi Pete, thanks for the input....the kit I plan to build is Hasegawa 1/48.....oh yes, what was the nose color in that profile you were referring to?

No separate color on the nose except the spinner appears to be 3/4 black and 1/4 white. There are also no kill or other markings on the tail or rudder except for the swastika.

All of the canopy framing is RLM 74 gray-green and this aircraft dons a tropical filter. All in all, this is an attractive, workman like scheme.

I might be considered strange, but I like to build aircraft depicting the every day, front line workhorses rather than those of the super aces that the rest of the world builds.
This is a good one, if you can find the decals.

Pete

hey Pete, if you have a scanner would you be able to email me a copy of that profile? thanks again

Jack

Most BF109f-4 II./JG 53 planes had the basic 79/78 desert color scheme with dark green (71) sprayed in any number of camo patterns.

"The white nose, fuselage band and wingtips were mediterranean theatre markings first introduced by I./JG 27 on its arrival in libya in 1941."

I got this in a book/magazine called 'Wings of Fame' Volume 11 copyright 1998.

I hope I was able to help.

Small correction - the green used for blotches or patterns over RLM79 desert camo was usually RLM80 olive.

Jack -
Sorry, I do not have a scanner. Maybe one of the other airplane guys on this forum would have both the book and a scanner, although it would be a pretty long shot if someone did. Maybe you could find a copy in a library. Here is what you would need to find a copy of this old book (1977):

Title: Hitler's Luftwaffe - A pictoral history and technical encyclopedia of Hitler's air power in World War II
Authors: Tony Wood/Bill Gunston
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-89611
Publisher: Crescent Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc. by arrangement with Salamander Books Ltd.

Crescent Books, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc.
One Park Avenue
New York, N. Y. 10016
ISBN 0-517-22477-1

Salamander Books Ltd. 1977
27 Old Gloucester Street
London WC1N 3AF

There is also a note that this book is not to be sold outside of the United States and Canada. You might get lucky.

Pete