Romanian Bf-109 question

Is the aircraft depicted on this kit a g-2 or G-4?




Matt

G-2, I believe.

Bf 109 G2 no 7 (white) 7th Fighter Group 1943

MGC

This post has been edited by mgc151184 on September 02, 2005 08:33 pm

I can confirm that No. 7 - which should actually be white - was indeed a Bf 109G-2.
However, 'White 15' was a Bf 109G-4. Please note that the blue stripe is missing from the latter aircraft's rudder...

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on September 02, 2005 10:30 pm

Thanks for your help.

Do you have any more info on this aircraft?

I saw a picture of the plane in Squadron/Signal's "Bf-109 in Action" book that shows what appears to be a larger-size tail wheel - was it a later G-2?


Matt

Based on the tailwheel alone, it SHOULD be a G3/4 (it's definitely larger than on the White 12 )

Unless other documents appear I would go for a g3/4...
Note the white 15 in the background in the first pic. I think the missing blue strip and the yellow nose are misinterpretations of this photo.



This post has been edited by 109 on September 03, 2005 03:13 pm

I just mixed the two pictures in Photoshop ant the 7's tail wheel in DEFINITELY larger than the 12's, no optical ilussion whatsoever.

Now you draw your own conclusions...
Cheers.

This post has been edited by 109 on September 03, 2005 03:19 pm

According to archival documents, 'White 7' was a G-2.

Gen. Dénes

P.S. '109', please list the sources of your photos.

This post has been edited by Dénes on September 03, 2005 04:27 pm

The second picture is the one that appears in Squadon/Signal's book.


Matt

We're talking about ARR here, so anything is possible; this could have been easily a G2 whith a "borrowed" tailwheel from a G3/4, just as easy as mistaking a G2 with a G4 in documents...
I remember seing another picture with a guy next to the White 7. That could pove decisive..

The first picture is from www.messerschmitt-bf109.de, the second from Squadron Bf-109 In Action.

Found it!

Acording to the radio antena it's a G2...so we have 3 main elements that
separate G2 from G4 , tailwheel, antena location and wing bulges...so far is 1-1...it hould have been great to see the right wing...





Picture from Air Magazine "Bf-109 roumains" - if i remember correctly...

...Sorry, the antena location is not relevant (when it comes to ARR...) i found a pic whith a G4 (check the bulges) with the same antena location...

What i would do Matt, would be to take a G2, fit it with a larger tailwheel, paint it but keep them bulges painted and ready to be glued on the wings!





Pic from Aero Magazin

Posted on Sep 4 2005, 09:37 AM by 109

Hey 109 , the guy next to " white 7" it's not an ordinary guy but the famous romanian ace Cpt. Dan Scurtu. So probably he flew this plane in spring '43 ( 23 april -29 mai) from Kramatorskaia airfield in strafing missions (some of the Bf-109 G2/4 like "white 7"were equiped with 4x 50Kg bombs rack for this purpose) over Izium, Vorosilovgrad, Kupiansk, Starobielsk and Barvenkovo. At that time he was the commander of 58sq ( 7FG) and on 10 april '43 set on fire 1 Pe-2 on Starobielsk airfield.

Below a color profile of "white 7" ( with belly rack). Courtesy Dan Melinte.


Matt the yellow it's not orange like on the box art but light yellow ( in B&W pictures it's very close to white color).

This post has been edited by Cantacuzino on September 04, 2005 01:24 pm

According to the French booklet, it's Serg. Stefan Greceanu.
(He's Scurtu, of course).

Gen. Dénes

In another french ( and romanian) book from TMA ( L'aviation Rroumaine )for the same picture was noted german mechanic instead of Scurtu.

Btw Denes, i remember that you have( in your data base) the data when was lost "white 7" .