hi Michel
there was a switch post GPW to a single upper colour, and the a switch to an overall colour.
http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/colors/1945-50-oldtypes/1945-50-oldtypes.htmlIn late 1944 some planes with uniformly painted uppersurfaces did appear; the new livery was probably blue-grey AMT-11 or A-33m with light blue undersurfaces. Uniform grey uppersurfaces started to appear on fighters around the end of the war, and this use lasted up to 1948 when grey was replaced by green; anyway it's impossible to distinguish grey from green on bw photos.
Note the photos of the Yak-9 wreck at the bottom.
The upper of the me262 could be AMT-4, or they could be AMT-11, or having a look here, their post war glossy equivalents
http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/colors/1945-1950-newtypes/1945-1950-newtypes.htmlThe new soviet planes of the immediate postwar could be finished with:
* solid grey upper and side surfaces and light blue undersurfaces, up to 1948;
* solid green upper and side surfaces and light blue-grey or blue undersurfaces, that replaced the previous one in 1948;
* uniform light blue-grey livery;
* disruptive camouflage, limited to Tu-2 and Tu-14, with green-dark grey-brown bands and light blue-grey undersurfaces;
* silver;
* natural metal, covered with trasparent varnish.
The position of red stars immediately after the war creates some confusion; they started to reappear over the wings, but sometimes disappeared from the tails or from the fuselages of the planes, so there were planes both with 6 and with 8 stars (unclear if with 4 stars too); one has to look at the photographic records of the single plane.
A-24g gloss camouflage green or and A-28g matt greyish blue?
I had a quick watch of the youtube fottage, could not see any upper wing stars, but it was hard to tell.
Be interesting to know what Massimo's thought are on this?
HTH
T