View Full Version : JG2 Richthofen squadron logos for all you painters!
SPEKTRE76
12-16-2012, 07:36 AM
Hey fellow painters,
I made all of these JG2 logos and I figure you guys can put them to good use. I would like to ask if anyone can tell me if I have all of them in the right gruppe?
Oh and the '1/JG2' Dog logo was re-created directly off of an aircraft photo! and so was the personal insgnia of Oblt Hermann 'White 9'.
Enjoy!
I'll releasing all of JG3 'Udet' tomorrow.
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8062/8248604623_332e008340_k.jpg
Feathered_IV
12-16-2012, 09:20 AM
Wooooow!!! Superb! :grin::grin::grin:
csThor
12-16-2012, 10:22 AM
Not quite.
1./JG 2 - correct (for 1940)
2./JG 2 - did not have a Staffel emblem, only displayed the Geschwader emblem
3./JG 2 - that blue triangle with the "Horrido" inscription and the sword is correct (for 1940)
What you have for 3./JG 2 was the Gruppe badge of III./JG 2 from 1941 on. by then most Staffel emblems were a thing of the past.
4., 5. and 6./JG 2 - no emblems beyond the Geschwader emblem
The emblem you depict as 6./JG 2 may be a personal or much later emblem. The emblem you assign to 4./JG 2 belongs in fact to 7./JG 2.
Your III. Gruppe emblems (apart from the "Thumb presses hat" badge of 7./JG 2) are correct, also with variations. However what you have as IV. Gruppe is a mix of various things which weren't used at the same time, for long or even at all.
10./JG2 was a semi-autonomous fighter-bomber Staffel - your emblem fits for that one - but it did not come into being before 1941. At that time the three other emblems, all of which were short-lived as the IV.(N)/JG 2 of early 1940, were long out of use. It's even questionable if any were used outside of propaganda shots.
JG26_EZ
12-16-2012, 11:12 AM
Very nice SPEKTRE! Many thanks, and please keep them coming.
SPEKTRE76
12-16-2012, 08:16 PM
Not quite.
1./JG 2 - correct (for 1940)
2./JG 2 - did not have a Staffel emblem, only displayed the Geschwader emblem
3./JG 2 - that blue triangle with the "Horrido" inscription and the sword is correct (for 1940)
What you have for 3./JG 2 was the Gruppe badge of III./JG 2 from 1941 on. by then most Staffel emblems were a thing of the past.
4., 5. and 6./JG 2 - no emblems beyond the Geschwader emblem
The emblem you depict as 6./JG 2 may be a personal or much later emblem. The emblem you assign to 4./JG 2 belongs in fact to 7./JG 2.
Your III. Gruppe emblems (apart from the "Thumb presses hat" badge of 7./JG 2) are correct, also with variations. However what you have as IV. Gruppe is a mix of various things which weren't used at the same time, for long or even at all.
10./JG2 was a semi-autonomous fighter-bomber Staffel - your emblem fits for that one - but it did not come into being before 1941. At that time the three other emblems, all of which were short-lived as the IV.(N)/JG 2 of early 1940, were long out of use. It's even questionable if any were used outside of propaganda shots.
Wow man thank you for all of thgis great info. I have been searching high and low. I will correct them today. As far as the 'Horrido Sword' is the red one the right one for after 1940 or is there a new logo entirely? Thank's again man! :)
Oh the chicken head was used on Fw-190's, so yeah not correct for this game but maybe for the upcoming Battle of Stalingrad?
csThor
12-17-2012, 05:15 AM
Most of the Staffel emblems of 1940 disappeared in 1941 or 1942, apart from 7./JG 2 and maybe 9./JG 2 only the Gruppen/Geschwader emblems remained. I've never seen the red triangle at all ... I guess it comes from a faulty interpretation of a b/w photo.
The emblem of III./JG 2 was used on the Bf 109 and Fw 190, but since the unit was in the west and never ventured to Russia it doesn't have a place at Stalingrad. ;)
SPEKTRE76
12-17-2012, 09:32 AM
Maybe the chicken will fly in "IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of the Ruhr"? :-P
major_setback
12-18-2012, 03:07 PM
Thanks for the hard work. They are very good.
It's a shame some of the detail will diappear in the finished skins due to the resolution and size of those smaller emblems.
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