Hey chaps, I found a wild and crazy camo scheme for a Bf-109K-14 on box art for AZ Models 1/72 kit and wanted to give it a go. Would anyone know what the colors might be for this plane…? The greys and greens might be easy, but the nose blue/violet stumps me…the kit is # AZ7850
Cheers
The page for the model at www.mbk-b2b.com has an additional image that suggests the color is a blue, not purple or violet. A thread on the britmodeller.com forums regarding this kit suggests RLM 24 Dunkelblau for the nose marking; the markings refsheet in this thread is a very dark blue that could have been interpreted as purple by the box artist to make the aircraft more visually interesting. There is some argument that all of the camo/marking patterns are spurious, as the claims that several K-14s were completed and delivered to JG52 in April 1945 can be considered dubious – the DB605L engine the K-14 was to be equipped with had production stopped in December 1944; MAJ Batz, the commander of II./JG52, who said that he got two K-14s delivered said later that he didn’t recall seeing any 4-bladed prop on a Bf109 – a signature feature of the K-14, and two lists of operational aircraft from 9 April for JG52 disagree with each other – one with “K-14” and one with “G-14”, and neither list is an original document, so their reliability is questionable. The final Kurfürst that was completed was the K-6, also suggesting the K-14 was a paper aircraft, and references to it are typographical errors of the G-14.
