Skin help

[sigintwarrior]

I am looking for some help on the following attachments. When I was stationed in Guam, I picked up a trio of prints by Nicolas Trudgian commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. Unfortunatly, the evil dictator (read:ex-wife) got rid of my Spitfire and Hurricane prints, but I was able to save the ME-109.

Anyhow, I looked for the Jagdgeschwader that these planes would have been part of and can't find any matches. Also, a skin of these would be so cool to have. The picture hangs in my office (read:closet that the current wife lets me keep my computer in). :grin:

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[Shado]

JG3 I think is the place you need to start.

Black 8' from 2./JG 3
The emblem is a Tatzelwurm.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/ivanphawksley/Black82JG3.jpg

Taken form a post of Osrams over at SimHQ:

A JG (JagdGeschwader) is subdivided into three Gruppe s named I and II and III. Each contains 3 staffels but they are counted sequentially, IOW
I. Gruppe contains 1,2,3
II. Gruppe contains 4,5,6
III. Gruppe contains 7,8,9

[Cpt_Farrel]

During the Battle of Britain the Tatzelwurm marking was used by I./JG3 and it was in staffel color so 1./JG3 had a white one, 2./JG3 used a red one and 3./JG3 used a yellow one.

As soon as the game has a Bf109E-4 I'll be making some skins with these markings, but I've also got one coming for the Bf109E-3.

It's really a cool marking!

[sigintwarrior]

Hats off to you guys. I really appreciate the help and information. I had looked up each fighter unit in the order of battle but for JG3 only found the following 6423

I am sure I could have done a bit more research, but there aren't enough hours in the day it seems.... I have stared at that print for 21 years and always wondered who it was. I look forward to seeing those skins when you get the time. Thank you both again for the time you took and will take.

After lots of clicking and frustration I found this. All were emblems used by JG3 over the course of the war.6427Left to right
1). C1. JG 3 Udet
2). C2. Stab/JG 3
3). C3a. Stab I./JG 3
4). C3b. 1./JG 3 (later)
5). C3c. 2./JG 3 (later)
6). C3d. 3./JG 3 (later)
7). C4. I./JG 3 (2nd formation)
8). C5. 1./JG 3 (early)
9). C6. 2./JG 3 (early)
10). C7. 3./JG 3 (early)
11). C8. II./JG 3
12). C9. III./JG 3 (early)
13). C10. III./JG 3 (later)
14). C11. 7./JG 3
15). C12. 9./JG 3 (early)
16). C13. C12. 9./JG 3 (later)

sorry for the size of the pictures, I am still trying to figure out how to insert pictures.