Hi,
here are screenshots showing LaGG-3 in winter painting.
It is interesting how white paint is applied almost strictly over black areas in standard black/green camouflage at the beginning of the GPW, at least on the left fuselage and left upper wing:
It correlates with discussion at
http://sovietwarplanes.com/board/index.php?topic=1448.msg11306#msg11306"...You confuse camouflage science and VVS guidance. No single published document from WWII period defines the camouflage paint of white spots. There can be found only mention about "protective white painting" (окраска защитной белой). Prewar instructions written for the Army Air Force that took part in the Finnish War say that the white patches are applied to the basic background, which was green that time. Probably here is origin of the fashion to overpaint black areas in the latter period.
...this can explain overpainting of the black areas in the standard 1941 scheme..."Regards,
66misos
