Hi Massimo,
As soon as I read your response, that aspect clicked into place in my thinking.? The available pictures here and elsewhere do seem to show very little deterioration of the paints from either weathering or harsh conditions.? That certainly makes my paint job easier!
One additional question about Yellow 9, please?? Do we know that the summer of 1941 is correct for the pictures we have of this plane?? Unless it was late summer/fall, I am not so sure that field commanders were choosing to do field repaints within the first couple of months of operations.? Or am I missing something?? Could this airplane have been photographed later in the fall?? It just seems to me that even in combat, military decision making regarding something like better camouflage via painting is not arrived at very quickly.? Please note that I am playing a bit of a guessing game here, based on much too small an amount of information.? I am learning however, but mainly I seek clarity to understand this particular airplane.? How often I seem to pick difficult subjects
Hi,
unfortunately, all what I know on the date and unit is already written on the page of the profile, and is from a Russian book.
On my part, I think that it's easier that non-standard camouflages were made on early planes that were paint overall green, than on later planes that were already camouflaged.?
However, I suppose that such camouflages were improvised at a low hierarchical level, in brief time. A lot of Russian planes were destroyed on the ground, so this justifies such doing.
I've already commented this on a previous post.
http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=121.0I've received an information from Oleg that has interviewed a pilot:
he said that instrument panels were either light-blue (same color as underside), or black (so called Kuzbass-Lak)
Massimo