I have this project to build a slew of late-model 1/72 Bf-109s to show off some of the variety of camouflage schemes seen on these aircraft. The present G-10 illustrates the colour conundrum I am faced with.
The AJ Press 109 Pt.2 volume shows White 57 in 1945 in a quite unusual scheme that looks like RLM 82 green covering the wings and tailplanes, and upper fuselage. The H-Models decal sheet describes the same aircraft as 'light green' 82 and 75 on the wings and 75 over 76 (no green at all) on the fuselage, with a RLM 02 'yellow grey' nose all the way back past the wing leading edge!
Xtracolour calls its RLM 82 'dark green' (its RLM 83 being 'light green').
Two indistinct b&w photos on the web show a lighter coloured nose and wingtip lower surfaces, and short tailwheel. The wing upper surfaces can not be seen.
So AJ Press missed the lighter nose, and H-Models extended the lighter coloured wingtips to the ailerons. Each source has interpreted a different coloured upper fuselage. Both agreed on a night-fighter unit.
I personally doubt that the nose would have been the early-war 'light' RLM 02, but it makes for an interesting variation. I guess we will never know for sure! If I build it like that some Luftwaffe expert will have a field day. Since the H-Models description includes both the green and the grey uppers, I will settle for that, with some kind of pale primer-covered nose. At least nobody can prove me wrong!
And this is only the second model in the project! What fun!
Very good wing-to-fuselage joins; no filler required.
Cheers,
David