Erwin Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 (edited) Hi all, I want to build the Revell Mosquito as beuteflugzeug. The only picture I can find is from the tail on. Are there any more ? Best would be from the side. The profile doesn't match up with the picture. The bright bit is clearly yellow. The wheelbay underside in the profile is yellow. I don't see that brightness in the picture. If the artist based his drawing on just the one photo then he's guessing. Edited September 15, 2020 by Erwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted September 15, 2020 Author Share Posted September 15, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Erwin said: Was the yellow that bright ? Edited September 15, 2020 by Erwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted September 15, 2020 Author Share Posted September 15, 2020 (edited) 28 minutes ago, Jennings Heilig said: RLM 04 yellow. You do know that this airplane was never flown by the Germans, and that it had steel pipe "landing gear" because the aircraft's own landing gear was destroyed when it crash landed and they didn't have another set?? No I didn't. Why didn't they contact the RAF-spare parts department for a new LG ? Guess that rules out the "beuteflugzeug" then. Why bodder to repaint it ? It's not that it would have been shot down by other German planes. Edited September 15, 2020 by Erwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted September 15, 2020 Share Posted September 15, 2020 Also appears the airplane has no props in the photo. I assume they were destroyed in the landing. LSP_K2 and Erwin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre F-86 Posted September 16, 2020 Share Posted September 16, 2020 Well, at least making up the decals would be a piece o cake. Swastiker and codes. Nothing else. Erwin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted September 17, 2020 Share Posted September 17, 2020 On 9/15/2020 at 1:19 PM, Jennings Heilig said: The Germans wasted a lot of time and resources on silly things. Like putting a Daimler Benz engine into a Spitfire and test flying it. For what possible purpose? That's one of many such examples. I made a conversion in 1/48 (Fusion Models) for that captured Spit in 2001 and it is still selling very well...So at least it was good to me! Alain PS It seems that from what I read, Daimler Benz wanted to show that a Spit with a DB engine would be even better, to show the Luftwaffe they were producing the best engines. So makes sense in a promotional way. However, after taking out armor and guns, how could a fair comparison be made? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamF Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 On 9/17/2020 at 1:30 PM, Alain Gadbois said: I made a conversion in 1/48 (Fusion Models) for that captured Spit in 2001 and it is still selling very well...So at least it was good to me! Alain PS It seems that from what I read, Daimler Benz wanted to show that a Spit with a DB engine would be even better, to show the Luftwaffe they were producing the best engines. So makes sense in a promotional way. However, after taking out armor and guns, how could a fair comparison be made? I'd heard it was to test the spitfire cooling system on their DB engine. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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