Photo: Toshio Ohkura
This article have appeared first in August 1984 issue of "Model Art" magazine (No.235) and reproduced here by courtesy of Model Art Ltd.
| Curator's Note |
If you know Mr. Masahiro Ishizuka by name, you may be veteran
Luftwaffe-fan.
For me (and perhaps for you too), this G-10 which appeared on
"Model Art" magazine in 1984 and the G-10 (Muller's
green 3) which appeared on the same magazine in 1986 were quite
a shock. They showed me such a profound documentation which had
never appeared in Japanese publication before and his skillful
art building accurate models based on the documentation. The amount
of his skill and work for building Revell's G-10 which is not
so easy to build as recently released Hasegawa's kit were very
impressive. In retrospect, it seems 1980s are the golden age of
the "Model Art" magazine featuring many skilful modelers
including Mr. Ishizuka. It is regrettable that Mr. Ishizuka has
not contributed articles on magazines for years, but it is my
great pleasure to reproduce his article here by courtesy of Mr.
Ishizuka and Model Art Ltd. and by friends' help. Reading the
article now, I am surprised to find out the value of his documentation
and work has not faded by years passed by. Mr. Koichiro Abe's
recent articles on research of Bf 109 which have appeared in "Scale
Aviation" magazine have revealed us many new findings, but
Mr. Ishizuka's work has represented many of them in 1984. Maybe
Mr. Ishizuka's work was representation of Mr. Abe's research in
1/48 scale. Top photo taken by Mr. Toshio Ookura is also once
top cover of "Model Art" magazine and for me it is one
of the best cover photos.
I wish you enjoy this vintage of modeling.
| About the ace |
The JG 52, most successful Geshwerder of the Luftwaffe, is
famous in producing many aces, for example Hartmann, Barkhorn,
Rall, Batz, Graf, Lipfert and so on. Less famous are those aces
like D殳tmann (152 kills), Waldmann (134 kills), Sachsenberg (104
kills) and Ewald who is featured here, but they are also noteworthy.
Heiz "Esau" Ewald was born at Sopot near Danzig on 11
September 1922. He was posted 5/JG 52 in summer of 1943 and from
then until the end of the war he fought on the eastern front.
He was excellent pilot and has flown as Barkhorn's wingman for
long time. On 29 December 1944, he scored 50th kill in Hungary,
and was awarded RitterKreuz after scoring his 82nd kill on 20
April 1945. His total score is 84 kills in 396 sorties.
When he was rising as ace, Germany was loosing war, and he himself
narrowly escaped death several times. Maybe his luck owed to his
talisman, Lucky Pig (his personal marking).
He flew exclusively Bf 109s. His personal marking on G-6 are appeared
on some references already. Recently, his G-10 was discovered
only partially, which was his mount between beginning of 1945
and the end of the war. Therefore some of painting and marking
are result of conjugation.
English translation by shigeyoshi kanda ( Thank
you very match , Mr.Kanda from curaor)
| About G-10 |
（Ａ）Wing buldge（Ｂ）tail wheel
（1）type：（Ａ）amall（Ｂ）short
（2）type：（Ａ）amall（Ｂ）long
（3）type：（Ａ）big （Ｂ）short
（4）type：（Ａ）big （Ｂ）long
| Revell 1/48 kit |
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Photo：Toshio Ohkura
