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66misos
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« on: January 17, 2013, 09:16:13 AM »

Hi,

in this thread http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1136.msg6921#msg6921 was discussion whether there was also single grey (AMT-11 or AMT12) during WW2.

This picture was given by KL as example:

with the comment:
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Photographic evidence suggests single gray for individual planes which may have been repainted in units.  I wouldn?t rush ? better quality photos usually show that planes were actually camouflaged in standard two-gray scheme.

While watching TV series Крылья России - Истребители - Грозовые годы (Wings of Russia) on Youtube I just found sequence from which I made following screenshots:


It looks like same planes, once on b/w photo and once on color film. And what appears as single grey scheme is in this particular case red painting. No single grey.

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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2013, 01:58:30 PM »

Is there a way to prove that first and subsequent pictures show the same squadron?
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2013, 02:32:36 PM »

Hi Warhawk,

all pictures (plus some others) can be found in TV series Крылья России - Истребители - Грозовые годы (Wings of Russia) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYrIIh5XTpQ from 46:45 to 47:56 and from 48:15 to 48:30 (without board numbers)
As it is montage, it is not exact proof that all that planes are from the same squadron.
From 49:15 there are La-11 during some arctic flight. However their undewings seems to have the same dark color as fuselage and underwings and quite glossy (and with board numbers).

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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2013, 04:16:53 PM »

HI 66misos

there was a thread here on La-7 profiles
http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=818.0

where I posted this
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This  looks like single upper colour on these La-7's, with I presume red nose and rudder tabs?  A (looks same colour as stars) A little blurred but the La-7 badges and cowl bands are visible.
Dated April 1945.
(P32 MBI La-7 book.  posted as 'fair use')

AMT-12 upper surfaces it appears, as AMT-12 was applied first, with AMT-11 applied over this, if I remember a posting somewhere on here correctly.



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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2013, 05:31:36 PM »

Hi Misos, hi Warhawk,
very interesting images! I don't know if the bw photo is of the same planes, but there is no doubt that a bw version of the same images would be interpreted as a green/blue or grey/blue plane in absence of other informations.
For what I know, overall La-9 were used for tests of an airfield on the northern ice, and there are some red/blue Yak-3s too.
However these cases are the exception, I won't see any dark uppersurface as a proof of a red one.
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« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2013, 05:59:16 PM »

Hi All,
thank you very much for your inputs.
I just want to say that what appears single grey on b/w photo need not be necessary single grey in reality.
I do not want to say that what appears single grey on b/w photo must be red in reality. Wink

Thanks to Troy's post I found what I already look for:
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Orlov did write that right after war gray-gray scheme was changed just to AMT-11 on the top and in late 1947/early 1948 to AGT-16.
So I suspect that some b&w pix are dated wrong and show some planes after post-war repainting. This would explain appearance of some planes such as Dolgushin's La-7. Remind you that standard painting procedure for gray-gray scheme was to spray AMT-12 (darker) first and then the areas in AMT-11 according to desired pattern which, contrary to popular belief, was vastly (fully) adhered to by manufacturers.

How widely used were those La-9/11 during WW2?

Regarding mentioned Dolgushin plane I have only this (poor quality) photo:

I am really far from being able to say anything about single grey vs. two grey camo based on it.

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« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2013, 06:13:45 PM »

The La-9/11 were not used at all during WWII.  They were completely postwar.

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« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2013, 08:08:28 PM »

Hi all,
after grey uppersurfaces, green uppersurfaces were used too. A veteran said that La-9s were green and blue as prewar I-16s. Besides somewhere there is a photo  of a postwar Yak (Bulgarian I think) that was repainted green over grey.
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« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2013, 08:32:51 PM »

Hi,
those La-9/11 had metal surface, not wood/fabric, if I remember correctly. If yes, then they are irrelevant in the discussion about single AMT grey vs. two AMT grey during WW2 era (on La-7 - Kozedub, Dolgushin etc).
If they were grey I think it was paint other than AMT11/12.
Postwar green/blue camo is possible. At least on Il-10 it was usual.

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« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2013, 11:37:27 PM »

Despite a superficial resemblance to the earlier Lavochkins, the La-9/11 were completely new designs, of all-metal construction.  They did not even enter production until after WWII.

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« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2013, 12:34:22 AM »

Disruptive camouflage was a wartime measure - VVS planes were not (factory) camouflaged neither before 1941, nor after 1945.

Solid gray during the war seems to be a myth.  Certain author/profile artist based it on a few blured photos, few misdated photos and his imagination.

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« Reply #11 on: January 18, 2013, 10:10:05 AM »

Hi,
I only do not understand why on some photos difference between AMT11 and AMT12 is so evident:

  (summer shot)

  (winter shot)

and on others hardly noticeable:


Here only rudder shows some little evidence of AMT11+AMT12.

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« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2013, 12:59:53 AM »

and on others hardly noticeable:


Here only rudder shows some little evidence of AMT11+AMT12.

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     66misos
HI 66misos

I don't have the MBI book to hand, [which I think is where I saw the pic before] but I think bort 69 is not AMT-11/12 uppers, but is a single colour upper.
IIRC it is a post war photo, hence being inspected by all the civilians and  note the different style of '69' in black[?]

I have formed the impression that single colours upper surfaces appeared quite soon after the end of the war, possibly to keep the ground crews busy...

I think bort 69 maybe a 3-gun plane as well [I was looking for photograph document 3 gun nose planes for my Gavia kit, as opposed to these http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/Markings/La7-3gun/index.php]
Has anyone apart from Erik seen these photos?

As an aside, a chap I corresponded with on Britmodeller knew Erik when he was in the Bristol area, and he said he was shown some photos he could not publish.
Probably worth a new thread....
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« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2013, 01:11:16 AM »

Troy, I think it is a 3-cannon La-7 as well.  It appears to have the elongated gun fairings of that variant.  If that is a GPW aircraft, it's rather odd - not only the bort but look at that fuselage star; something strange is going on there.  This is almost certainly a postwar example.  Too bad, really, as I'd love to do a single-grey La-7 (I realise I still could, but I'm sticking to GPW aeroplanes for now).  I think it'd look quite appealing.  Oh well, at one time I was ready to do a tractor green/black Il-2 because I liked the look of it.  Too bad facts have to get in the way sometimes.

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« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2013, 09:22:37 PM »

Hi Troy and Jason,

I found picture of that dark (black?) "69" also in the Osprey book Lagg&Lavochkin Aces of World War 2.
Text accompanying that photo says "Relatively rare piece of La-7 armed with 3 cannons Berezin B-20 of 20mm caliber is surrounded by soviet people during Exhibition of Victory organized in summer 1945 in Leningrad".

However I still think it has two grey camo - see difference between lighter and darker color on the rudder (just above left peak of the star), on the upper fuselage between digit 9 and rudder and on the left horizontal stabilizer between trimmer and right hinge - basically all are there where one could expect them according to the NKAP AMT11+AMT12 scheme.
Plane is just cleaned and polished so difference between two greys is not so evident on this overexposed photo taken during sunny day from this particular direction.

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