Me 262A-2a Wk Nr 111685 ? KG51

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by dp_burke

Thanks for that.

I've since found two other sideviews with other interpretations of this aircraft, one almost complete oversprayed with the RLM76 … This sideview looks more believable. Not sure what the mottle colour might be, can't imagine its RLM76 tho … At this stage I might as well turn it over to the kids to finish.

Thanks again everyone.

Given the unheard-of luxury of really good wartime colour photos, I'd say your interpretation of the colours is just as good as anyone else's, so you can paint the model in the way that looks most accurate to you.

For what it's worth, to me, the camouflage looks like a combination of a pale-medium green and a darker green (as far as anyone can tell from monochrome photos, there were many instances of this on machines of KG 51 and KG(J) 54, but applied in various styles, e.g. patches or wavy lines).