tan swastika from aircraft

[sscrooge]

Hi guys, I know its hard to say for sure but which aircraft do you think its from ? storch ? glider or something else ? its approx. 13 inches across ,thanks Dave

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also could this be from afrika campaign being sand coured as others I have seen are grey ?

[mjfur]

Typically the swastika on a Storch was positioned on the rudder. You can see where stitching attached the cloth to the metal ribs of the rudder.

Your cloth doesn't show any signs of stitching or aircraft dope which concerns me (not just for a Storch application either). On my monitor the "sand" color looks like it's a gold metallic, another red flag.

If you scroll through this link, you will see some other cloth swastika's for comparison.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...light=aircraft

[sscrooge]

Hi, thank you for your reply, the flash must have made it look metallic gold but its definetly sand coloured and does look to have dope on outside covering like a varnish that's what possibly made it look gold when flash hit it, but there are no holes as you say in it, rgds Dave

[sscrooge]

its does have age could it be from a glider ?

[sscrooge]

on the rear there are two indentation lines from where maybe its been against possibly supports ? they don't appear to be like the other creases ,well not to me anyway but I could be wrong rgds Dave

[sscrooge]

this hasn't stitch holes either ,it looks like they may have been just tight against the ribs ,rgds Dave http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...torch+swastika

[sscrooge]

please excuse my poor marking skills but trying to mark the lines that I think are not creases

[sscrooge]

Typically the swastika on a Storch was positioned on the rudder. You can see where stitching attached the cloth to the metal ribs of the rudder.

Your cloth doesn't show any signs of stitching or aircraft dope which concerns me (not just for a Storch application either). On my monitor the "sand" color looks like it's a gold metallic, another red flag.

If you scroll through this link, you will see some other cloth swastika's for comparison.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...light=aircraft

Hi, the storch one shown in that thread looks identical colour and fabric to me apart from the stitched section, thanks for the link

[sscrooge]

I hope the member doesn't mind me posting his nice example for comparison , rgds Dave

[sscrooge]

The stitching line is about an inch off from mine , might it not be possible that my swastika was painted an inch lower than stitch line ? Rgds Dave

[mjfur]

The stitching line is about an inch off from mine , might it not be possible that my swastika was painted an inch lower than stitch line ? Rgds Dave

I don't believe the pictures you posted in #12 are from a Storch (even though the OP may think that).

No matter what the position of the swastika on a Storch rudder, at least one rib would be located behind the swastika and the corresponding stiching to attach to the rib. The swastika would need to be very small (half size) to fit in between two ribs. Also the ribs in the rudder are parallel to each other while the lines/indentations in your cloth are 45* to each other.

[mjfur]

this hasn't stitch holes either ,it looks like they may have been just tight against the ribs ,rgds Dave http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...torch+swastika

In the first picture (from your link) you can see what looks like a piece of 1" wide tape that runs from the upper left to lower right. This piece of re-inforcing tape goes over top of the stiching.

Example