Hello Massimo, thanks for your answer!
Hi, I don't understand the thing about MiG-3s with black nose.
i had in memory some black noises in mig-3 as this model wich can perfectely be an bad interpretation.
Anyway it does not have any sense , the mig-3 appears in 1940 after the period we study...
What realy interest me is when the noises were painted in black.
Do you agree it was before 1937? or do you think they were painted too after? Do you think before 1937 blach cowling were systematic?
So a noise painted in black could be without any doubt a way to determinate if the plane was painted before 1937 , and so deduce that the green is the old green and not AII green?
About the colors of Akanihin: the pre-1937 (or 1936?) shade was based on a piece of TB-3 that showed two greens: the lower one was a sort of olive green, the upper one was more dark green and identified as 3B.
Very interesting! have you any pic of the TB-3 part? Do you know were it can be seen?
If I remember well, the piece of skin of the Spanish I-16 showed two layers of paint, and the underlying was the more olive one.
Another piece of the same I-16 showed three shades of blue; perhaps this color could be identified with the darker one
is there any other piece of upper surface?
I know the blue piece, i don't find it right know but i see it a lot of time...
I think that the set of prewar colors is very reductive.
I agree with you, I show it just to show AnaKhinine propose just AII green in his set...
it seems that the first color has been removed from the catalogue. Perhaps he wasn't sure about the original look or that it was utilized on any pre-1937 plane.
Do you know the reference of this paint, to try to find it?
Xan