SH72271 Junkers W 34Hi "RAF Captured Hack Plane"

[hobby m]

Dear SIrs,
I am curious about this boxing you released recently. Was this plane captured at Klagenfurt airport in 1945? If so, then this was Croatian plane which was captured by the UK forces there. This could mean that its registration codes were actually HK+DV and not DZ as shown in color profile. Please see also the photo of Croatian plane when captured, from Flypast magazine. Do you have more photos of this plane?

Thanks,

Marko

Přílohy

[Alfred Riedel]

Dear Marko,
We used two books of Phil Butler for preparations of this model, they are „War Prizes“ and „War Prizes – The Album“. Although with very similar names, these two books are not identical. In each of the books there is a different photo on the wreck of this Junkers W.34 with DV („V“ always underlined) code letters and British roundels. The captions say that it is captured, ex-German machine that was used by No.93 sqn of RAF. This squadron was using the DV letters, but not sooner than after its reactivation in 1946. War-time codes were NH. It is therefore possible that this machine had been really Croatian before its capture by the British, who may have used it with part of the original code letters retained on the fuselage.

Alfred Riedel

[hobby m]

Hi Alfred,
thank you for the reply. Could you please post those pictures here?
Since MPM also produced older kit of W.34 with Croatian markings in '90s do you have any other pictures of Croatian example beside those I posted?
Thanks.

Best regards,

Marko

[hobby m]

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[Alfred Riedel]

Hi Marco,
I sent You e-mail.

Fredy

[hobby m]

Thank you very much Alfred! That is certainly the very same machine! Location of capture, arrangement of overpainted fields, everything fits! Thank you so much!