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[masmar]

Hi all,
thanks unikum, truly awesome finds!
For the K4 335XXX , the same kind of camo net can be found in Peter Schmoll's book "Die Messerschmittwerke im zweiten Weltkrieg" on page 155, 178 hiding the production halls in Gauting and Stauffen forrest factory. I think that this could be a special version ordered by MTT and used on the several late-war production sites. Although it's an exeptional design it can always be found on pictures of those plants.
If you have a look on those areal pictures of Cham-Michelsdorf you can clearly see a lot of camo-net-constructs all around the airfield. I'm sure the same was done in Amberg-Schafhof and Vilseck. If we think about Roland's Werknummer-theory, it would be more likely one of the last ones, than Cham.
Those vertical stripes visible on the fuselage are simply formed when blasting the cockpit The pressure is bursting the rivet joint and blank/primed aluminium appears. I don't think, that putty was applied after riveting the fuselage. I think the same happend on the K4 in München-Riem when the tailplane was changed.

regards
Matthias