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Evgeny Velichko · #4 1st February 2008, 00:46

Ok, I see. I hope telling the facts to You is not the same thing as trying prove somewhat to Pilawski = it is easier to bite the moon

I want polite and gentle discussion.

Ok. Just a simply reply.
Pilawski is an "author" of so called "acid VVS colors". And color profiles You mentioned are based on his "colors".

To imagine the "level" of knowledge (and the depth of researching the object) of "GURU", we can look here just 2 simple examples:

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Il-2 AM-38F "White 25" Unit, Location and Pilot unknown.

http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/DigitalMod...06/june06.html

This is Il-2 AM38F, from 16 VA, in propaganda flight over Berlin, April 1945. Several photos were taken, all shown in links below. To make more “moral effect”, photograph just simply “edited” one of photo “for newspaper”, adding white arrow and furious “Mstitel” (Avenger).
http://pics.livejournal.com/bersrk/pic/0000d1hd
http://pics.livejournal.com/bersrk/pic/0000c914
http://pics.livejournal.com/bersrk/pic/0000brzs
http://pics.livejournal.com/bersrk/pic/0000asat

Result: http://pics.livejournal.com/bersrk/pic/0000f64p

Il-2’s, presented on that photos, are painted in standard NKAP-43 scheme. It just cannot be in “two colored” scheme (as Erik claim) because average life of Il-2 was short, even it was not shot up or damaged. Just because of wooden details were damaged by water/sunlight. Il-2 “two-colored”, built in late1942 to mid 1943 could not survive so long life. Easy.

Elements of NKAP-43 are seen on right wing of this Il-2 from 16 VA:
http://pics.livejournal.com/bersrk/pic/0000edk8

Twotone scheme was AMT 4 and AMT 6, but not AII lacquers (used before 1941). There were no Braun color in VVS.

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Il-2 AM-38F 566 ShAP Summer 1944 Leningrad Font pilot unknown