This profile is my first top view of a Fw 190 D-9. A profile type that many of my followers and book customers request. It is understandable, especially from the audience who are modell-builders and are looking for templates for their building projects.

However as my followers already know, I am very skeptical about making these types of profiles. The reason is that there is simply no photographic documentation, documentation I always require to make a right or left view.

This specific profile a Focke Wulf Fw 190 D-9 "Black 4" with W.Nr. 500576, i.e. a machine from Mimetall Erfurt productions batches, In total, up to this date I have made no less than 23 Dora profiles from 500XXX productions batches and of all these made profiles only four of these can be partially confirmed with the help of photographs of their upper camoufage.

Partly as only parts of the upper side of the wings are defacto documented with photographs. One of the machines that in fact have a documented upper view is this "Black 4".

Photografed lying on it belly at Wünsdorf airield after the war in a derlict state. Its main wings could in fact be confirmed and its therfor one of the few Mimetall Erfurt built Dora top views that could be used as a template.

And talking about the craft itself, making a top view of one of my favorite subjects as a profile, is inspiring. Especially knowing that this upper view could be one of the few that is possible to confirm.

I have chosen to camouflage the upper side of the wings in RLM 81 and RLM 77, a high contrast camouflage, two of the three types documented for this production batch.

A strange camouflage considering that at this time the Germans were busy trying to hide their machines on the ground by camouflaging their machines in grass and earth colors.

However, this camouflage can be accepted considering when this machine was produced, during the winter-spring of 1945. With snow and muddy ground, this grey-white and brown camouflage can be considered adequate.

This is one of two top side profiles I made during the past week, the other is a Dora-11 "Red 4" from JV 44. I also managed to make two new side views. Now I will stop creating new profiles, I have already filled more than four new books with profiles and will instead write the manuscript for Profile Book No 16 during December.