Hptm. Rolf Pingel's Emil - Gruppenkommandeur I./JG 26, November 1940

Hasegawa Me 109 E - is there an easier build out there? Not sure I'm 100 % convinced by the shape of the nose. Decals from Kagero. Pingel's Emil was photographed at Audembert on the Channel coast as the ace returned from a sortie on a grey, drab day during November 1940. The rudder 'scoreboard' shows 17 Abschussbalken. The fuselage sides are now heavily over-painted, although the machine still has large areas of yellow.  I used Xtracolor enamels. Note the campaign flags along the cockpit sill. 

Pictures of Pingel's Emil have previously appeared in a Kagero monograph and were originally sourced from the Deutsches Technik museum in Berlin. Note he is wearing his RK awarded on 14 September for 15 victories.

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Hptm. Helmut Bennemann's Emil I./JG 52