Hello everybody,
Afriend of pascal and mine want to do a Eduard I-16 type 17.
He doen't know much about VVS aircraft but he is a very serius modelers.
I indicated him of course this forum and indicated him the different opinions about VVS colours...
http://www.master194.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=61933&p=662166#p662166He chooses this decoration:
I told him I didn't think this camouflage was real and try to know much about this plane.
it's the plane of zhujkov of the 191IAP in Leningrad in summer of 1941.
Pascal finds some pics of this plane:
this pic show us a very tired plane (the paint of the fuselage can be as tires as is the cowl one)
it's true that a diference of colour can be observ ahead the cockpit.
but it doesn't meen at all in my mind that there are two differents colours.
It can be the same colour tired or probably gasoline....
in this pics we see the white top of the tal , and a number but it can be can anyone
this is again zhujkov and behin his plane, but it's hard to know if it's the same plane...
if it is, we can see the fuselage with one colour.
of cours EP saw in that planes a two tone green camouflage:
and I think Eduard was influenced by this interpretation
To my opinion the plane is clearly paint in AIIz green (it can be other thing) and the paint is tired.
Do you know more pics of this plane ?
what is your opinion?
thinks
Xan
well, in the first pics it's real that there is a difference of colour