Hi,
I am back with Sukhov, as promised:
?A bit latter I will make profiles of the both approaches, I am too busy in my work now?
SUMMARY OF DAMAGES:1.) 20th july 1943 Sukhov performed training flight. During landing the leg of the front undercarriage was broken and plane hit the ground with the nose and damaged propeller (I found this in Tabachenko?s book when looking info about Glinka brothers).
2.) 2nd september 1943 - Sukhov attacking FW-189...Pieces flew around my plane? next day my mechanic reported: The plane is ready to fly!
3.) 25th February 1945 - My plane is hit. A fire erupted on my fighter... flame is not throbbing now, only a thin stream of smoke coming out from the holes on the plane...I counted seven holes from 20-mm shells...
Damage repainting after the first two incidents were done most probably with Soviet paints. However the third accident happened when Pokryshkin's regiment was based at Aslau airfield, where one very large assembly hangar, four more very large hangars and one large repair hangar were? A group of workshop and stores buildings were located in the hangar area, and there was a further group of workshops?
More about Fw-190A-9 production in Aslau is here
http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1515.msg13218#msg13218So surely there was not big problem to find enough German paints for one P-39 in this huge production facility. Question is what paint they could use.
GERMAN PAINTING SUMMARY:-
September 1944 - 75 Grauviolett /83 Dunkelgr?n (Dark Green) scheme for the Fw 190 D-9, replacing previous 74/75 scheme.
First operational use of the Dora took place in early October 1944, camouflaged in the 75/83 scheme?
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early 1945 - change from the standard 75/83 scheme to the 81 Braunviolett (Brown-Violet) /
82 Hellgr?n (Bright Green) combination. It is most probable that a variety of transition schemes existed (e.g., 81/83, 82/83, 75/81, etc.) leveraging old stocks.
Repanting on the sides and front fuselage of Sukhov's P-39 is noticeable brighter than faded Olive Drab from different angles and times, so it is not only matter of the fresh semi-gloss paint reflection - possible candidates are 75 Grauviolett or 82 Hellgr?n (Bright Green). 81 Braunviolett or 83 Dunkelgr?n (Dark Green) are too darks. They could be good candidate for the nose repainting. 76 either Lichtblau or Weissblau seems to be OK for underwings.
The colors of the German paints are taken from
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_germany.htm.
75 Grauviolett is quite similar to Igor Zlobin?s grey version at
http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1515.msg11098#msg11098.
Regards,
66misos