Hello everyone,
I started to assemble this Tamiya kit:
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to make the Fw 190 D-9 jv 44 Sachsenberg Schwarm - “Red 1” flown by Leutnant Heinz Sachsenberg
A quick look inside the box:
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First steps …
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Plane assembled and ready for the primer …
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Painting wings’ undersurfaces …
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I began the complex task of painting camouflage … My hope is to be able to do an acceptable job …
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I don’t know about painting aircraft. Did you do the whole upper surface in the lighter green and then the panel lines in a darker green or the other way around??? Do you still do a darker wash later?
What do you think of it?
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Looking quite good! Very striking aircraft.
Ready for weathering …
The canopy is simply leaning, I have yet to decide whether to leave it closed or open …
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Bravo! an absolute stunner.
You’ve done a grand job of that camo and the overall finish is excellent. 
Watto 
Plane ready for take-off …
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Looks great! Very striking.
Was there a tactical reason for the underside color, or was it just that it was not seen when the plane was on the ground?
For ID by German gunners. To prevent “friendly fire” accidents.
Thanks, I suspected as much, but not knowing much about aircraft, I didn’t want to assume.
Hello,
For more information take a look at this website
Here is a small excerpt from the page linked above:
Protection squadron - Die Würger-Staffel
Because of the greater length of runway it required, and the slow acceleration it had at low speeds, the Me 262 was especially vulnerable during take-off and landing. Galland thus established his own protection flight. Five Fw 190D-9s and D-11s were attached to JV44, the Platzschutzstaffel (Airfield protection squadron), headed by Leutnant Heinz Sachsenberg, to provide air cover for takeoffs and landings. Flights were to be undertaken in a two-aircraft Rotte up to altitudes of 500 metres, covering both the Me 262s taking off or landing and monitoring the surrounding skies for Allied fighters.
The Platzschutzstaffel flew the long-nosed ‘Dora’, Fw-190 D-9, or Fw-190 D-11 variant of the well-known Fw 190. These aircraft were painted bright red on their wings’ undersurfaces with contrasting white stripes so anti-aircraft batteries could distinguish them from Allied piston-engined aircraft, leading to their humorous postwar nickname of the Papagei Staffel (Parrot squadron). The Staffel was nicknamed “Die Würger-Staffel”, a play on the common nickname for the BMW 801 radial-engined original A-version of the Fw 190, which was Würger or Butcher-bird. [/i]
Citroen 11 CV Staff Car
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