A rare color photo represents a downed Il-2 with unusual painting.
The plane is produed in Zavod 18 presumably in late 1941 or early 1942, with metal wings.
The base camouflage is very worn and scarcely contrasting, and bears traces of a badly removed winter paint. Even the star on the fuselage appears in such conditions.
A new red star with white outline and new non-standard gloss black bands were painted on the tail and rear fuselage, resulting well contrasting on the photo; perhaps the sides of the stabilizer and rudder were repainted green too.
After having corrected the shade of the photo for what it was possible, the spinner appears of a color comparable to that of the grass on the background and with the greenish zinc chromate on the inner side of the engine panel (different than the yellow zinc chromate of the frames of the elevator); its color could be a bright light green, perhaps the same A-7 utilized for the piping of the coolant.
My main doubt is if the plane in the photo has the early metal wing with 20 mm guns, the later wing with bulges for 23 mm guns with 20 mm barrels (the thing that looks more likely to me) , or the late wing with 23 mm guns as drawn.
