[Jim P.]

I have to agree with Modeldad for the most part. And I don't think JG 54 was at all unique as far as non-standard paint schemes. The best known and most outrageous perhaps, but there are some pretty funky/non-standard schemes on machines from a lot of other units as well - in that regard you need to look at the area where the unit is based. The Leningrad sector was heavily forested, so greens would be a natural. The unit's major base of operations for 2-3 years were major captured Soviet installations. Stands to reason that out of necessity they might use captured Soviet stocks at times. You're not going to stop operations waiting the next paint shipment.