Camouflage colours on a Ju 87A

[Clint Mitchell]

Friends,



Yes, same aircraft, same lighting conditions (different angle), same obvious difference between colour shades.

If I may suggest:

The lightest shade seen on the front of the starboard undercarriage fairing, the area beneath the cross and freshly applied on the rudder/tail to overpaint the earlier national markings, is clearly RLM63 (Hellgrau)... Nose area, abundantly clear this is RLM 61 (Dunkelbraun) moving forward to RLM 62 (Grün).

Dear Dénes, I am overwhelmingly apologetic, but I fear that I would be inclined to disagree with your current conclusion regarding the colour attribution of the light segments of the camouflage pattern depicted on the photo very kindly posted by Giampiero Piva, (thank you).

Your attribution of a sand like shade on this pre-war splinter pattern confuses me somewhat. I have always been led to believe in the past that such colourings would be more beneficial in concealing the aircraft in more sandy, desert like regions of the planet, closer to the equator perhaps and not in the more leafy, green and dark brown terrains much farther North. I would even dare to add that the inclusion of such a shade could perhaps be seen as being rather negligent of the fundamental practices of adequate aircraft camouflaging techniques. Which I'm sure had been thoroughly investigated by this point?