1:48 Stuka G-2 query...
I have been legworking a 1:48 G-2, looking for a scheme to do. In all this, I've seen about a million "Panzerknackern" done in the markings of Herr Oberst. Hans-Ulrich Rudel. Here's what it looks like, in case you don't know:
I read his story, "Stuka Pilot!" years ago and have much admiration for him. A fine airman, a brave warrior, a good officer and a true gentleman, he was quite a man. He lost his leg figthing tha Russians and died in 1986, the most decorated German soldier in history and was never a Nazi party member. The only bad thing (besides his leg), it seems, is that he flew for the wrong side, and at least one British commander expressed that precise sentiment!
His G-2, "< - + -" has appeared in about evry guise imaginable, from standard splinter green to winter whitewash, with spats and without spats, in dioramas and as shelf sitters - - But, I would like to do something else in the way of a Stuka G-2! Surely he wasn't the only man to fly the G-2 ... 172 Gustavs were converted from the D-5; did he fly them all?? I have found the name of only one other fellow "Kanonenvogel" pilot:
Hermann Neumann. 368 combat missions, credited with destroying 68 Russian tanks, recommended for the Ritterkreuz.
Does anyone know where on earth I can get markings for some other "Tankbusting Stuka's" besides Rudels?