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Originally Posted by Cpt_Farrel
What makes it even stranger, the stencils being painted on light color is that these aircraft seem to have been painted without any RLM 76. (...) it makes it strange indeed that the stencils seems to be painted on light surface. - unless they were painted on the bare metal...
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If I can bring my small contribute, the fact is that those stencil apparently weren'y painted on the surface, but were printed on decals having a light background...
This is all too clear from these two images showing close-up details of Italian (ANR)-flown Bf 109 G-10s of Erla production:
here the label is being applied on a brand-new aircraft, which would gave no sense to a "masking" of any kind...
Here the same label appears scratched and scuffed, which is clearly compatible with a rectangular patch or decal, rather than to a painted wording on a painted background...
Hope this helps