[Graham Boak]

According to Ken Merrick's latest research, the Luftwaffe did not use Italian paints but had early and late standards of their own desert shades. He was the one who first suggested the use of Italian paints, and there seems to be no independent evidence of their use.

I presume you are referring to Muncheberg's staffel: I undertood they retained their temperate colours. As did their RAF opponents on Malta (generally).