Thanks, you simply cannot gauge the tonal appearance of specific colours on black and white photos. There are many, many factors that can explain why in a specific photo a colour looks a lighter or darker tone than the same colour in another photo. It's clear that the segments that you are referring to are the lightest of the three colours on the upper surface... Was RLM 63 not the lightest in appearance of the 3 colours used in that scheme? So it would be more than reasonable to assume that the segments that appear the lightest are the ones that are coloured RLM 63 and not the two darker colours? Why would they choose to implement a completely different colour into the official scheme during this period?
As already stated the single triangular section of code overpaint could be RLM 02, I have seen colour surviving evidence of RLM 02 having been used to overpaint the codes on RLM70/71 aircraft so it's not outside the realms of possibility. It was quite a popular shade of paint for the units to have in stock as it's uses were numerous on LW aircraft.
"BTW, there are six combinations of three colors without any mirroring:
61/62/63, 62/63/61, 63/61/62, 61/63/62, 63/62/61, 62/61/63"
It's nice to know that you have come to this conclusion. Do you want to share what specific aircraft you have found this to be the case on? Can you provide evidence without us having to rely on your say so? I don't mean to be rude, but it's all very well and good for someone to make a statement like that as others have done in the past, but without providing evidence to your claim it doesn't really leave us a lot to work with...
Respectfully.
