[Graham Boak]

Modeldad's comment about six variations encouraged me to turn to Ken Merrick's Luftwaffe Colours - the original volume 1 of the Kookaburra series. In there is an illustration of the standard pattern that was applied to all Luftwaffe aircraft painted in 61/62/63. This existed in two mirror images, each of which had three different arrangements of the colours. Hence six variations. A drawing of the aircraft was scaled so that the span was as wide as the diagram, then the tailplane was placed at the bottom of the diagram. The differences in shapes of the aircraft gave the visible differences in the pattern. Only the plan view was used, with the manufacturers wrapping round the provided patterns onto the fuselage sides. This has to be open to some room for differing interpretations.