Hi Massimo,
here I combined info from your Mig3 pages and Czech modelforum:
1. Petlyakov Pe-2/Pe-3 camouflage evolutionhttp://www.mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/pe2/pe2camo/pe2camo.htmIn late 1944 the Soviet Air Force had altready reached a position of superiority over the German Luftwaffe and its alleys. While Germans reverted to green/brown camouflages to hide better their planes on the ground, the Soviets decided to extend to all planes the blue grey/dark grey camouflage that has been successful for fighters since August 1943.
On October 1, 1944, the Resolution n.6339 was approved, but burocratic delays retarded its publication till January 1945.
Used colors: light blue AMT-7, blue-grey AMT-11, dark grey AMT-12 and ther oil equivalents.
The resolution included templates for many types of planes:
Accoding to Orlov, on Pe-2 the old camouflage was rather simply updated by overpainting:
- green fields with gray-blue paint
- light brown with dark gray, except for the paint on the left side of the tail
- dark grey should, of course, be left unchanged.
This style of repainting would generate a camouflage where the dark grey is predominant over blue grey, but from photos it seems that this was not the case of many planes.
It is possible that
many Pe-2s had the light brown areas replaced by blue-grey as happened on some Il-2s, but this would be undetectable on bw photos.
It seems, instead, that
many Pe-2 had a repainting where a light shade covered all the previous light brown areas, plus other ones that were previously painted in green or dark grey, generating a nearly-uniform light plane. Lacking of a reason for a so wide light brown painting, this could be the form assumed by many blue-grey repaintings. The veteran Anisimov confirms the existance of grey Pe-2s, describing them as unformly painted.
2. Tupolev Tu-2 camouflage evolutionhttp://www.mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/tu-2/tu-2camo/tu-2camo.htmThe new grey-grey template for Pe-2 was intended for the Tu-2 too. As it is traced here, it doesn't appear on any photo or wartime or postwar Tu-2.
Rare color image of Tu-2s, probably after the war. The most of them seem to have bands of light brown, only
one of the planes, far on the left, seems to have a grey-grey livery.
3. Yermolaev Yer-2 camouflage evolutionhttp://www.mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/Yer-2/Yer-2camo/yer-2camo.htmNo any template was provided for the Yer-2 bomber, but, as on previous instructions, the template of Pe-2 was of some help.
This image of Yer-2 of 327 BAP, possibly taken in spring 1945 shows a surprising
two-shades splinter camouflage having some resemblance to the 1945 grey/grey template for Pe-2.
4.) (some) Czechoslovak Il-2 in April/May 1945This picture looks like:
- light brown AMT-1 replaced by bluegrey AMT-11,
- green AMT-4 replaced by dark grey AMT-12,
- dark grey AMT-12 kept untouched.
As a result
there would be Il-2 in 2-color grey-grey camo, whey shapes of the camo fields would resemble original standard 3-color painting:
- light areas - originally light brown, now bluegrey (the tip of the left wing should be in original light brown like on the photo, not green like on the profile),
- dark areas - originally green and dark grey together now as dark grey.
Regards,
66misos