A Balkenkreuz question

[klemchen]

Hello,

in Ferdinando D'Amico's and Gabriele Valentini's book "The Messerschmitt 109 in Italian Service 1943-1945" on p. 77 there is a photo of a Me 109 G-14 with a fuselage cross consisting of four black angles, which is extremely rare on a 109. The lower surface of the left wing is fairly light, and the cross on it is clearly visible. It appears to be in the original standard form of a black cross with four wide white angles, each of which is bounded by a narrow black angle, except there seems to be no white between the beams of the cross and the outer black angles. Since the fuselage cross did not have any white and the wing underside appears quite clear, I believed that there was no white paint available when that particular aircraft was finished and thought that its underwing crosses were of still another simplified form hitherto unnoticed. To me omitting just the white in the old standard form of cross would seem a more "natural" way of simplifying than omitting everything but the inner black beams (although it would depend on the kind of stencil at hand which simplification you choose).
Unfortunately my belief got shattered by recently running across a few photos with underwing crosses clearly visible but very low contrast or none at all between the white angles and the light lower surface color, and in these cases there was no reason to think that no white paint had been available. So my question to the experts is whether anyone has ever come across Balkenkreuze of the kind I thought to have discovered in the mentioned book.

Best regards,
klemchen