Messerschmitt Bf 109D-1 3.(?)/JGr. 176 Oberleutnant Friedrich Karl Rhinow September 1939
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Hi, this is what I could get from AMG 109C-1 kit: I started it as a red 10 of 2./JG71, but after some useful advices from members of the 72nd Aircraft forum, I changed it to a D-1, yellow 5 of probably 3./JGr. 176.
Oberleutnant Friedrich Karl Rhinow is pictured sitting on the port wing of this colorful a/c, celebrating his first aerial victory
"on the photos Rhinow seems to hold a victory stick - though there appear to be two rings on it, which normally would indicate two victories - however, they are quite far from each other so perhaps one of those rings has different meaning? I mention this as Rhinow claimed a single victory on 09.09.1939 and this was most likely his only success scored on a single-engined fighter; on 29.09.1939 he was wounded in a mid-air collision with another aircraft from his unit, but it appears that he retained the command at least until February 1940 when Jgr. 176 became II./ZG 76 again and was re-equipped with the Bf 110. I don't know his later fates."
AMG kit is a nicely detailed kit, marred by some incomprehensible decisions about making parts in the mold:
lines of union that do not coincide with the panels, parts that are decidedly too thick especially in the wing tips ...
All very strange because it is a kit made with modern 3D techniques, reduced from the same model in 1:48 scale...
Anyway, there are lots of details especially in the cockpit and with some dedication a quite good reproduction of a Jumo engined 109 could be obtained.
I used kit's sharkmouth, crosses and stencils decals, but had to cut and paste a yellow six and a bar from Kits-World to obtain the peculiarly shaped 5 of this unit
A warning about AMG decals: the white doesn't cover enough over the red part, painted with the mask in the box (I had to go over the teeth with a brush and some white...) and are easily shattered while moving them; I had the best result dipping them in warm water for a couple of seconds and then left them on a flat surface, waiting about other ten-fifteen seconds until they start moving and then slide them on a very wetted surface with MicroSet.
There are some photoetched parts in the box, some are scribing template for the gun panels needed for this version, some are for the cockpit but surprisingly not for the IP, and some for a very realistic but quite difficult to assemble u/c doors.
There is also a nice Jumo engine but if you want to show it you will have to scratch build all the section in front of the cockpit, or live with a blank plain wall instead...
The oil radiator is a small resin piece, but it looks quite chunky compared to the plastic parts: again, it is difficult to comprehend why it is not included in it...
I have other AMG boxing of the early 109, I will build them but not soon...
Hope you like the result,
thanks for watching!
Ciao
Andrea
