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The Fw-190 D13 might be the most mysterious production aircraft to come from the Focke-Wulf company. Very few were produced and even fewer made it to active service. Photographic evidence of wartime D13's is limited to 3 aircraft : Werknummers 836002, 836016 and the famous 836017 which has been restored at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA. "Yellow 10"
"Yellow 10" features a very unique camouflage pattern in the annals of Luftwaffe lore. The purpose of this concept build is to create a theoretical D13 based around available evidence and extrapolating the data. This build will be what I believe, a plausible D13 would have looked like with another Jagdgeschwader unit. All pictures not my own are from Jerry Crandall's Focke-Wulf Fw-190 Dora volume II. Unless otherwise noted.
We know from the sequential Werknummers that at least 18 were built because JG.2 reports a D13 as lost on 11 April 1945, werknummer 836018.
From that baseline, subtracting the 4 known D13's I have 15 to work with.
With the known units they served in we have 3 possibilities, NaGr.1, JG.2 and JG.26, with which "Yellow 10" served with. For purposes of build variety, this D13 will serve with JG.2 which sported Yellow White Yellow defence of the Reich bands. As the D13 had teething issues it will be assigned to an experienced pilot, a staffel leader.
Utilizing excess decals, the D13 will be "White 1" of 1st Staffel, I Gruppe, JG.2 "Richtofen" From luftwaffe organization, the senior staffel utilized white numbers with, in this case, black border. The I Gruppe had no distinguishing mark on the fuselage, though 2, 3 and 4 would.
The bread and butter of this build will be the paint scheme! Similar to "Yellow 10" That scheme utilized a sort of Tiger Stripe effect
Of Rlm 75, 82, and 83. "White 1" will sport a "Calico" scheme of Rlm 75, 82, 83 and a light green I'll refer to as Rlm84, which is a misnomer as no color code exists but the color does.
Power eggs captured on film clearly show there was a luftwaffe mandate for a change to factory applied camouflage, possibly for better concealment as the allies dominated the air.
In the field, ground crews would have put their own variation on this with the available paint stocks, as was probably the case with "Yellow 10".
For landing gear a neutral gray has been documented, it will change up the build as any luftwaffe fighter model builder knows, it's invariably RLM02.
Base color from the factory will be RLM75 as it's not only as camo color but also appears to have been used as an ad hoc primer by this point in the war as well. Undersides will be RLM76 with bare metal areas.
Markings of JG.2 will be RLM04 and white. Unit leaders of JG.2 were known to paint the underside of thier cowlings yellow. For this I'll utilize RLM99 which is closer to U.S. zinc chromate yellow.
"Yellow 10" features a very unique camouflage pattern in the annals of Luftwaffe lore. The purpose of this concept build is to create a theoretical D13 based around available evidence and extrapolating the data. This build will be what I believe, a plausible D13 would have looked like with another Jagdgeschwader unit. All pictures not my own are from Jerry Crandall's Focke-Wulf Fw-190 Dora volume II. Unless otherwise noted.
We know from the sequential Werknummers that at least 18 were built because JG.2 reports a D13 as lost on 11 April 1945, werknummer 836018.
From that baseline, subtracting the 4 known D13's I have 15 to work with.With the known units they served in we have 3 possibilities, NaGr.1, JG.2 and JG.26, with which "Yellow 10" served with. For purposes of build variety, this D13 will serve with JG.2 which sported Yellow White Yellow defence of the Reich bands. As the D13 had teething issues it will be assigned to an experienced pilot, a staffel leader.
Utilizing excess decals, the D13 will be "White 1" of 1st Staffel, I Gruppe, JG.2 "Richtofen" From luftwaffe organization, the senior staffel utilized white numbers with, in this case, black border. The I Gruppe had no distinguishing mark on the fuselage, though 2, 3 and 4 would.
The bread and butter of this build will be the paint scheme! Similar to "Yellow 10" That scheme utilized a sort of Tiger Stripe effect
Of Rlm 75, 82, and 83. "White 1" will sport a "Calico" scheme of Rlm 75, 82, 83 and a light green I'll refer to as Rlm84, which is a misnomer as no color code exists but the color does.
Power eggs captured on film clearly show there was a luftwaffe mandate for a change to factory applied camouflage, possibly for better concealment as the allies dominated the air.
In the field, ground crews would have put their own variation on this with the available paint stocks, as was probably the case with "Yellow 10".
For landing gear a neutral gray has been documented, it will change up the build as any luftwaffe fighter model builder knows, it's invariably RLM02.
Base color from the factory will be RLM75 as it's not only as camo color but also appears to have been used as an ad hoc primer by this point in the war as well. Undersides will be RLM76 with bare metal areas.
Markings of JG.2 will be RLM04 and white. Unit leaders of JG.2 were known to paint the underside of thier cowlings yellow. For this I'll utilize RLM99 which is closer to U.S. zinc chromate yellow.
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