A factory fresh Me 109G-G14AS

[Marc-André Haldimann]

Originally Posted by Cpt_Farrel

I'm quite convinced that it's not the light, look at the enginecowling, there's no way that it's only a shadow doing that. Also, I think it looks the same on "Yellow 5" in the JaPo book. The well known photo of Yellow 7 from JG300 probably show the same camo too, only that the engine cowling was replaced causing the effect that there's a dark band around the forward part of the nose, which in reality would have been the remains of a "round the cowling" RLM83 or RLM81 camo.

Hi Cpt Farrel,

Well, you can check any amount of late war Me 109's photos, and you will notice more often then not this issue of having a very dark looking lower part of the fuselage, even if the sun position respective to the subject is good. This is quite obvious for the II./JG 52 109's which landed on 8 May 1945 at Neubiberg. IMHO, it has to do with the curvature of the fuselage, probably reinforced in some cases by exhaust stains (which is not the case for the plane we're talking about...).

Thanks for your input

Marc