RLM colours please.

[Evgeny Velichko]

Originally Posted by Grzegorz Cisek

I agree with Franek. I've studied a lot of pictures, including many in color, for 10 years and I am almost sure that RLM 79 was not used on Eastern Front with the exeption of planes which had this color in time of delivery. Bf 109F for JG 5 or FW 190F-8 from SG 4 were good examples of that. But if I see a model of Emil Lang's FW 190A-5 black 7 painted with sand colors I can only smile.

IMHO that scheme, used on Bf109F-4 of JG 5 and JG 3, not contain RLM 79 but RLM 02, together with 74 and 75 for upper. See attach. This is example of JG 3 aircraft, and JG 5 received aircrafts with the identical camouflage.

About strange colours of JG 54's aircrafts.

There is 3 suggestions:

1. JG 54 used captured Soviet colours.

I explained in previous posts.

2. JG 54 used colours, borrowed from Finnish units when JG 54 stated in Finnish airfields.

To transffer several hundreds of kilograms of paint could not be result of "partnership between unit comansers", but could be result of "Partnership between Official Goverments", with confirming documents e.t.c. There was only one act documented - transferring a paint FROM GERMANY TO FINNLAND (RLM 74/75/76) to use to repair/repaint Finnish Bf109G's.

3. JG 54 mixed colours to made new ones.

Useless, because Luftwaffe already had many colours for uppersurfaces:
RLM 70, 71, 02, 74, 75.

For that landscape for uppersurfases 70 (or/together 71)/02 with 76 on undersurfases whas the most usefull.