Free Austrian Bf 109 G-10

[comrade harps]

Free Austrian A.F. Bf 109G-10/U4, 1st Fighter Squadron, Zeltwig, May 1945
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Following the overthrow of the Nazi regime in July 19944 and the Spererate Peace with the Western Allies in August, Austria was freed from the Nazis but was not entirely free. Instead, it was effectively divided in two; those parts occupied by the Western Allies and that part designated for occupation by the Socialist Union. In the latter region, the Germans aided the establishment of the Free Austrian Republic. This entity establsihed an air force in September 1944.



The Free Austrian Air Force was formed with a fighter force based around the Bf 109G-6 and G-10. Many of the G-6 airframes were second hand and as the Austrian has a low priority when it came to the allocated of new fighters, several Austrian Bf 109 airframes came to have components from both the G-6 and the G-10. This aircraft, which landed by mistake at a U.S.A.A.F. base in May 1945, was one such hybrid. The arnament includded the G-6/R6 kit of two 20 mm Mauser MG 151/20 in underwing gunpods and the G-10/U4 standard 30 mm MK 108 Motorkanone cannon firing through the propeller hub. Curiously, and apparently to save weight, the cowling weapons had been removed. The pilot, Major Florian Grünwald, explained that the aircraft had been a G-10/U4 that had been involved in a landing accident in late 1944 and been locally rebuilt, the head armour, underwing cannon and cowling having been canniblised from G-6 airframes. He said that this aircraft had been modified to perform  "heavy strafing" of Red Army vehicles.




Kit: 1:72nd HobbyBoss G-10

[dumaniac]

interesting - the red and white sure is bright

[GTX]

 

[NARSES2]

Nice 

[Arc3371]

Very nice!

[upnorth]

Quite nice indeed. I really like the camo.

[Draken35]

Excellent!!! 

[Geoff]

Excellent comrade!!! 

[Pablo1965]

Diferent, original, awesome 

[matrixone]

Nice G-10!

After looking at your model it makes me want to get my kit out of the stash and build one.

Matrixone