Messerschmitt Bf-109 Tropical Part-1 48-308 Scale 1/48

1. F-86A 5 NA, 49 1028, “Texas Tailpipe”, 56 th Fighter Group (Air Defense), flown by Col. Robert Case y , Orchard Place AFB (now Chicago O’Hare Airport), Early 1950s.

2. Bf 109E-7/Trop of 3./JG 27, Libya, 1941.

3. Bf 109F-4/ Trop 4./JG 27, Doberitz, Germany, September 1941. Starboard side of the same aircraft. Seen in Germany a week before its delivery flight to 4./ JG 27, it has standard desert camouflage of RLM 78/79.

4. Bf 109F-4/ Trop WNr  8693. Lt. Hans Joachim Marseille, 3./JG 27, Maturba, Libya, February 1942.

5. Bf 109F-4/Z Trop 7./JG 27, December 1941. Shot down soon after its arrival in North Africa, this Bf 109F has RLM 78/79 camouflage with a low demarcation line. The lll. Gruppe bar and individual number are in white outlined in black and the Mediterranean white band, nose and wing tips are present as is an RLM 04 cowling underside.

6. Bf 109F-4/Trop Wnr 13220 flown by Ofw. von Boremski, 9./JG 3, May 1942.