BF109 E1 - 1941 Tropical Camouflage RLM 79/78

This is a historically accurate 1941 Tropical Variant of the BF109 E1 the upper surfaces are painteed in the earlier RLM 79 colour and bottom painted in the classic RLM 78 colour scheme. The upper surfaces were entierly painted in RLM 79. The wing tips and the nose were often white. The meter wide white band on the fuselage was standard on Luftwaffe aircraft operating in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy as it matched the similar marking of the Reggia Aeronautica; on this particular aircraft the wingtips are also white.