Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3 "Weiße 1" Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke

[helischmidt]

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3, Weiße 1
Oberleutnant Wolf-Dietrich 'Fürst' Wilcke, Staffelkapitän (squadron commander)
7./ III./Jagdgeschwader 53 'Pik As', Wiesbaden-Erbenheim 1939.

My father has been working on this machine often.

[JMSmith]

am i looking at a 70/02 top coat.

[pkassak]

As it is JG 53, it should be that coat...

[Espenlaub]

sieht Klasse aus, wie immer von dir gewohnt.

looks marvelous

Gruß
Hans-Jürgen

[Otterkins2]

My opinion, but I don't like the shading you've done on the dorsal spine. No wear and tear is shown either and these machines took a lot of abuse. Overall the outline looks entirely korrect at first glance, but I'd need to check it against my own work. I'm a 109 fiend. You do excellent work my friend.

[helischmidt]

sieht Klasse aus, wie immer von dir gewohnt.

looks marvelous

Gruß
Hans-Jürgen

Hello Hans-Jürgen,

Thank you for your words of appreciation.
The photo was taken by my father ... It was my template for the profile.

Best wishes to all.
Heli

[Jesters-Ink]

Check the photo, I had a play with the lighting/contrast and it looks to me like the lighter colour on the side is RLM 76 with the darker top nose and spine colours being the original cammo colours and application. There is no border between the lighter colour and the under fuselage colour, so they must be the same?

[BLOWHARD]

it looks to me like the lighter colour on the side is RLM 76

I had the same thought only I'd say it was RLM 02 and the border-less underside is a trick of the light...but you could be right here. Tough call.
Where is Simon???

[Otterkins2]

Very tricky. The Germans were notorious for unusual cam schemes. That photo looks like an early (1939ish) cam scheme, but the upper demarkation is much higher than I've ever seen before. Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of a lighter undercolour. Most unusual indeed Heli!!!

[Vigilante]

I'll leave the color interpretation to the experts, but the profile looks very good to me. The photo is fascinating.