Blue or Blue-Gray Camouflage on Bf 109E

[Cpt_Farrel]

Originally Posted by Ruy Horta

Been a while.

Since you mention it Primoz, what are the chances (next to mixing) of using some of the captured French paint stocks in the color experiments of that period?

According to Merrick (and maybe Ullmann as well, I can't remember clearly) the chances would be slim. Since aircraft paint is pretty advanced stuff, chemically speaking, they would probably not do things like that when they weren't sure how it would affect previous paints and the airframe itself...

No one has yet mentioned the fact (maybe idea is a better word) that colordescriptions was a bit different back in 1940 than today. Colors weren't as vivid as we're used to, so anything yellower than "off white" for example, would be called yellow. Same thing would probably go for blue or blueish grey. I don't doubt that the machine in question was painted in a blueish grey by the way...

There's one example, again from Merrick, where some Fw190's found in the mediterranean was referred to as blue in reports, but years later, some colorphotos emerged showing the aircraft in standard RLM74/75!

/Anders