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Title: Il-2 banded 7 with mottles Post by: Massimo Tessitori on August 27, 2012, 12:34:15 PM Hi,
here is another Il-2 very similar to n.8: (http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/mottled/striped7.jpg) (http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/mottled/striped7b.jpg) (http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/mottled/striped7c.jpg) (http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/mottled/striped7d.jpg) (http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/mottled/striped7e.jpg) (http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/mottled/striped7f.jpg) The rear fuselage and, perhaps, the low part of the stabilizer are mottled with light (brown?) paint, possibly AMT-1. What is visible of the underlying black/green camouflage and with white outlined stars is clearly related with the style of Zavod 18, coherently with the wing showing metal bended plates. The red stars are a bit irregular in proportions, and not perfectly centered on the hinge line between stabilizer and rudder. The shape of the ammo hatches suggest the wing of late 1941 equipped with VYa-23 guns, but the typical fairing on the leading edge is not visible; it could have been lost during the crash, or maybe the plane was armed with 20 mm ShVAK although in the wing tipically used for the other weapon. (http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/il-2/il2-camo/mottled/il2-sp-fl-aml-3view-col-z18-dottedblack7.jpg) Regards Massimo Title: Re: Il-2 banded 7 with mottles Post by: B_Realistic on August 27, 2012, 12:49:43 PM Massimo,
keep them coming. :D Michel Title: Re: Il-2 banded 7 with mottles Post by: B_Realistic on August 27, 2012, 09:12:09 PM Also an interesting camo.
If already known by you guys disregard. ::) Otherwise Massimo I would love to see it. (http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt7/B_Realistic/son7.jpg) Another early one in color. (http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt7/B_Realistic/18_COLOR_9.jpg) Title: Re: Il-2 banded 7 with mottles Post by: Massimo Tessitori on August 27, 2012, 09:51:24 PM Hi,
nice photos indeed. These of the first photo are early Il-2s with camo on an uniform green base. I think that they were photographed on the northern front, perhaps in Finland; there were rumors of Il-2s with a lighter green added on. Plane n.10 has surely a wooden fuselage. The second image is strange, the plane seems of z.18 but the black pattern is not standardized. The black is much newer than the base color. Regards Massimo Title: Re: Il-2 banded 7 with mottles Post by: Ohotnyik on August 27, 2012, 10:15:42 PM Thomasz J. Kopanski
Barbarossa Victims Moshroom N. 5102 (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h257/vadasz/IL-2nagyonkorai-2-2.jpg) Title: Re: Il-2 banded 7 with mottles Post by: KL on August 27, 2012, 10:31:59 PM (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h257/vadasz/IL-2nagyonkorai-2-2.jpg)
(http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/tt7/B_Realistic/son7.jpg) Il-2 on two photos above was photographed in summer 1941 - Not related to early 1942 "mottled" Il-2s Massimo is "researching". It's an example of the early field applied camouflage; base is pre-war green top A-19f/AII Z. Note that tailfin red star is missing. These of the first photo are early Il-2s with camo on an uniform green base. I think that they were photographed on the northern front, perhaps in Finland; there were rumors of Il-2s with a lighter green added on. Can't remember exact airfield and unit, but it was Central Front, Smolensk (?) direction, not Finland. Title: Re: Il-2 banded 7 with mottles Post by: Massimo Tessitori on August 28, 2012, 08:24:18 AM Hi Konstantin,
Barbarossa's Victims don't say anything on the place, it can be in Russia. Who knows if any other source say it... The photo offers a nice idea for a diorama. Regards Massimo |