A questionable technical drawing

Bless your eyesight JDK.

I had the tail marking as a cross, but I see the swastika outline now that you say it.

Seller mailed me and said the Spitfire has Dec 1940 as print date.

Thanks to Ryan for the links.

At 25£ a pop, I might put down a bid….

Clearly plans for scale models – the innacurate but working undercarriage on the Spitfire points to tyhem not being recognition models, as does the inclusion of a prop on the Storch.

Not sure how you classify a Storch scheme with a swastika on the tail as ‘postwar’? 😉 The crosses, like the position of the swastika on the rudder rather than the fin (or hinge line) and the duff registration just indicate a lack of care/knowledge of the real subject. They are not ‘red’ crosses, but incorrectly proporoned, and still legal Leftwaffe crosses.

The swastika makes it pre-45 if of German origin.

If they are not wartime recognition plans, they are still probably quite old. They look very similar to the ones here:

http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/

You can find most of the old WWII Navy recognition plans online (http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/Gallery/index.php?cat=13) and a lot of them are very similar to that style of drawing. My guess is that it’s early post-WWII.

Ryan

Why would the Spitfire be specific to K5054, when no German would ever meet that aircraft?

Because whoever drew up the plan knew the serial of only one Spit?

The drawings look like typical wartime model aircraft plans to me.

Best wishes
Steve P

I think they are a little too elaborate for recognition models. Why would the Spitfire be specific to K5054, when no German would ever meet that aircraft?

The drawings above look more like recognition models. They are not made with too many unimportant details, that can confure the “spotter”, but with attention to specific design features, that makes them easy to recognise.

I also find the lack of wartime markings on the Storch to point towards post-war period, where those markings were illegal.

Quite possible they are wartime – intended for construction as recognition models.

Coincidentally I have just today put a 1944/45 model plan for a Henschel Hs293 “Glider Bomb” on evilbay. It’s original price was 1/= and I suspect it was sold for that purpose.

Roger Smith.

I’m not saying they’re not wartime, that’s just what they look like to me.

They look like plans for building kids’ toys out of wood. I remember a few years back there was a magazine which had pull-out plans for building a Spit and a Messerschmitt 109 – they looked quite similar.

The end results were quite nice, too, though I never attempted to build my own.

So you are guessing, that they are not wartime, but a later magazine pull-out?

Sounds likely.

Also looks post-war as the Storch has a D reg and what appears to be red cross markings (not luftwaffe).

Registration on the model is definitely K5054.

They look like plans for building kids’ toys out of wood. I remember a few years back there was a magazine which had pull-out plans for building a Spit and a Messerschmitt 109 – they looked quite similar.

The end results were quite nice, too, though I never attempted to build my own.

Looks like K5054 the prototype.

The Spitfire might be of interest, if it truely is a wartime german model drawing.

Unfortunatly I can’t read the registration, but I can mail the seller. Could be funny if that bird was still around.

Yup they look like model plans to me,… being of German origin the instructions had to be carried out to the letter no doubt!!

Or else!

Yup they look like model plans to me,… being of German origin the instructions had to be carried out to the letter no doubt!!

It appears that seller have 2 more drawings of the same type.

One of a Spitfire and one of a Curtiss P-36.

Could they have been used for modeling?