Grey Bf109's of JG26

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All three of these are JG26 aircraft and all three wear different mixes of grey. Some believe the Luftwaffe used captured stocks of paint to try and come up with something more suitable to use over the channel while others believe these greys were done by mixing for example RLM65 with the existing green colors 02, 71 and 70. I tend to believe the "mix theory" as aviation paint is a complicated matter and I don't think it is likely that any old paint would be used on fighter aircraft. That's a very simplified statement but I'm hungry and it will have to do for now



White-13 flown by Walther Blume has been photographed in color. At first it seemed to be painted in RLM02/71 but when compared to the RLM02 visible on the enginbearers and a Klemm trainingaircraft in the background it's obviously not RLM02 but possibly a mix of RLM02 and RLM65.


I used similar mixes for Gallands very intersting mottled camo...


Horst Perez' aircraft is also known to have been grey, it has been confirmed when the aircraft was restored that it was painted in greys but it's not RLM74/75 which wasn't used on a wide scale at the time. (It did exist in small quantities for trials though, all according to Ken Merrick)