Hi
I posted this incomplete by mistake earlier! here's what i meant to post.
While hunting around for a scheme for a La-5FN, was going through the MBI La-5 book when looking at the photos of the Czech flown planes at Tri Duby I noticed something.
'58' flown by the commander, F.Fajtl
the book says some planes had blue coloured spinner tips, '58' shows a coloured spinner tip.
But also apperas to have a pale cowling ring too.
Is this shot '58' plane appears to have a coloured nose ring, and possibly a coloured rudder, compare the pattern on '02' with '58'
I did wonder if this is possibly a red nose ring/rudder, but they are much paler compared to the stars, but I spotted this in SAFFC saying that k16/39 washes out lighter blues,(or is this inaccurate too?) so I wonder if the spinner tip is red (better tonal match to the stars) and the nose ring and rudder are blue? Maybe A-10 Gloss Azure which would fade out on the film?
And would make a good identity marking without compromising camouflage too much.
I'm thinking here of the Czechoslovak flag colours, and what paint might be available.
This is speculation based on looking at photos, I may be totally wrong, so look forward other opinions on this idea.
Another section leader's plane '39' also in the book seems to have a repainted cowl ring. I'll post those later.
cheers
T