Strange Colours on Fw190 wreck...

[harrison987]

A friend of mine is currently recovering a Fw190 wreck. This piece came up, and I am trying to detemine "what" area of the aircraft it would ahve been from.

It does not appear to be a camouflage scheme, but rather a tactical marking or rumpfband?

Colours indicated are:


RLM 74
RLM 75
RLM 76
RLM 28 (Odd)
RLM 22

The wreck is on the Eastern Front, and was near a JG54 airbase...but strange to have this "red/brown" RLM28.

Thoughts?

[Graham Boak]

JG54 went through a period of very distinctive colours of its own, and many theories have been proposed. The latest, and possibly best (being based on a study of a stored example in Russia), is that trials were being made of new paints using JG54, and that the red-brown is the prewar RLM 61 brown, which was later re-adopted as RLM 81 Braunviolett. I suggest you obtain/borrow a copy of Ken Merrick's recent 2-volume study from Classic.

However, if you read other works on Eastern Front camouflage you will easily find other suggestions, some more sensible than others.

[Kari Lumppio]

Hello!

It looks like the top layers (JG54 camo) has been painted with brush? Will that rule out German paints?
Soviets did have brush-painting version of nitrocellulose laquers: A II (k). The "k" stands for k(ist') = brush.

For what it is worth. There is a telegram among Heeresgruppe Nord KTB attachments which mentions German night harrasement planes being painted with Soviet black paint. Don't remember offhand the year, should be either 1943 or 1944. The planes would have been from Luftflotte 1 as was JG 54.


Cheers,
Kari

[Pilot]

Look like RLM 74/75 with patch in some brown, maybe to cover some bare metal scratches, field repair. Nice finds anyway, where your friend dig this machine?

[Milos Gazdic]

Harrison et al,

Do you have the photo posted above please to repost? Maybe you Srecko?

Thank you in advance / Hvala

Milos