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FEBRUARY KITS
Bf 109E-3 1/32 Weekend edition Cat.No. 3402
1./JG 2, Bassenheim, Germany, May 1940
The illustrated White ‘7’ ew in the spring of 1940 with Staffel JG 2
under the command of Spanish Civil War veteran Oblt. Otto Bertram.
The aircraft carries the standard period camouage scheme consisting
of RLM 02/71 on the upper surfaces. The lower surface light blue
RLM 65 extended quite high up the fuselage sides. An oddity on this
aircraft is the application of older national markings on this newer
scheme, including the smaller fuselage crosses with very thin border
segments and the application of the Swastika such that it covered both
the rudder and the n. The emblem of JG 2 Richthofen appeared
on both sides of the fuselage under the cockpit. Similarly, the Staffel
marking of a leashed dog ‘Bonzo’ appeared on both sides, and was
developed by Otto Bertram. The template for the marking was the
comic character ‘Bonzo the Dog’, by the Brit George Studdy who’s
drawings paradoxically appeared on aircraft of both sides.
BUY 3402 Bf 109E-3 1/48 Weekend
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