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Re: Black-painted Heinkels!
I'd be wary of black-painted aircraft carrying no national markings — they seem to have got everywhere!
I have information from the interrogation of agents dropped in Italy by KG 200's Kommando Carmen. None of them knew what type of aircraft they'd flown in (a Ju 188 in fact) and their descriptions were varied and imaginative. Some did report an all-black aircraft, which I have reason to doubt. However, when you read that they were driven to the airfield at night and boarded the aircraft from underneath, its black undersides were probably all they saw. If they didn't notice nationality markings, maybe these weren't applied under the wings (not unusual in aircraft operating at night).
I can't really think why your Heinkels would have needed camouflage any different from contemporary night bombers of the same type — which could include black undersides and toned down/overpainted codes and markings. Operating over Britain at night, the threats (Ack Ack, fighters) were the same for all of them and no one wanted to be seen.
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