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[Phas3e]

Heres todays btw

[Thunda]

So Im guessing, 109 E7 of JG53 'Pik As' in France either before the end of June or After Sept 1940. (Period inbetween, JG53 had no 'Pik As' symbol, only a red band around the cowling, as a collective punishment from Goering for Major Hans-Jürgen von Cramon-Taubadel, Geschwaderkommodore of JG 53, being found to be married to a Jewish woman! Once Major Günther Freiherr von Maltzahn became Kommodore on Sept 30th, JG53 re-painted their 'Pik As' symbol- and their swastika's which they had removed in protest.)

JG53 were re-equipped with the Bf109F for Barbarossa and the campaign in the east.

[Stratodog]

"Cooter" P-51D-10 of the 362nd squadron, 357th FG.
It's in this skinpack if you want it http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=Downloads2&file=details&id=5813

[Cranky.1]

Thanks you Stratodog you must of read my mind 

[Verhängnis]

"This particular aircraft is ML963, 8K-K "King" of 571 Squadron, the picture having been taken on 30 September 1944, after the aircraft had completed repairs at Hatfield.

[SAS~Storebror]

Some other Photo of the same aircraft together with some additional info, shamelessly stolen from Wikipedia:

A Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquito B.XVI (serial ML963) in flight. ML963, 8K-K "King" of No. 571 Squadron, the picture having been taken on 30 September 1944, after the aircraft had completed repairs at Hatfield. ML963 was first issued to 109 Squadron on 9 March 1944, going on to 692 Squadron on the 24th of the same month , and then on to 571 on 19 April 1944. It was damaged in action on 12 May 1944 but returned to the Squadron on 23 October of that year. ML963 completed 84 operations with the Squadron, 31 of them to Berlin (one of the others was a low-level sortie to skip-bomb a 4,000 lb bomb into the Bitburg Tunnel, undertaken on New Year's Day, 1945. The crew were Flt Lt Norman J Griffiths & Flg Off WR Ball). Its final sortie came on 10/11 April 1945, when it was abandoned following an engine fire. The crew, F/O R.D. Oliver and F/S L.M. Young RAAF, rejoined their Squadron before the end of the month, F/O Oliver reporting as early as 22 April 1945.

Best regards - Mike

[Verhängnis]

Plastic 1/48 kit.

[Kopfdorfer]

Just want to say guys that I love the shots selected, but in somewhere between 2 and 3 years this is my favourite so far.

Kopfdorfer

[Moggy Cattermole]

It's a great photo, agreed!

[Phas3e]

You guys realise its a plastic model eh?

[Kopfdorfer]

I didn't, but whether photographed or photoshopped it's still a great image.


Kopf

[SAS~Storebror]

If you like this image that much, you might like others from the same model as well:
http://www.hyperscale.com/features/2001/typhoonbubbleir_1.htm

Best regards - Mike