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Re: Half painted Fw 190 wing undersides - the purpose?
I have found two photos, possibly three, that show that the upper wing was painted the same way, front part RLM76 or 75, and covered with a thin layer of camouflage paint on top of the wing.
It's shown in a photo, taken by Jerry Crandall? in the 60's, of the wing from Fw 190D-9, W.Nr. 601088, Black <1 + ~, Stab IV. /JG 51, in Eagle Editions about Fw 190D-13 Yellow 10. Most of the camouflage paint seems to have weathered away by then, leaving the RLM 76 that covers the front of the wing.
It's also shown on Fw 190D-9, W.Nr. 211939, Black 4 + -, 6. /JG 6, in "Focke-Wulf Fw 190D camouflage & markings Part 1" from JaPo. It's the photo that shows the repair/repaint of the left wingtip. The camouflage paint seems very thin and the RLM76 shows trough.
The third one is possibly Fw 190D-9, W.Nr. 400xxx, Yellow 11 + -, II. /JG 2 in Carl Hildebrandt's booklet Broken Eagles 1. This plane seems to have a broad dark coloured band under the camouflge paint, on top of the wing spar. But this could of course be paint, or putty, to cover the rivets on a repaired wing spar.
At the moment I can't say on which sides these photos are, as I'm at work.
/Micke D
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