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Re: Blue or Blue-Gray Camouflage on Bf 109E
Hi,
Graham is quite right about the experimentation with blue-greys in the Battle of Britain period and this aspect of Luftwaffe colouration has been through various periods of acceptance or refutation. Quite often these reports are dismissed as poor perception or description of the 'standard' RLM 74/75 scheme but remember that the former is actually a grey-green, not a blue-grey and the latter is basically neutral, perhaps with a hint of blue in some circumstances.
In any case, there are some beautiful, well-balanced, colour prints of Bf 109 Es (including yours)- with some in recent issues of Luftwaffe Im Focus, the last issue with a wonderful close-up of the tail with a dark blue-grey mottle and RLM02. In an earlier Luftwaffe Im Focus there was the bizarre, no, risible instruction that what we were looking at was not blue-grey but greens! This is the power of 'authority' over reason - just like religion. I suspect that the editor was told by an 'authority' that the colours should be green/grey and dismissed the evidence in front of him.
Best wishes
GrahamB
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