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We announced at the very end of our second book Fw 190D Camouflage & Markings , part II , JaPo publishing 2007, that we will include in our third volume a colors chart containing real paint chips found in Czech Republic. Regarding the reactions of readers on several internet forums, we would like [...]

In the late 1937 Yugoslavia began to receive first modern warplanes Do17K and Blenheim Mk.I. That was the beginning of the complete modernization of the Yugoslav aviation. The Royal Yugoslavian inventory slowly began to out date as well the front line types were Ikarus BH 33, Fury, IK-2, Breguet XIX, and Potez XXV, via Fokker [...]

Rogozarski IK-3 became operational in 1939. It was the only type to wear proposed fighter overall grey scheme. Problem is that this color was hand mixed ( and hand brush painted) so paint were differ from plane to plane. The same color was enamel based and was mixture of base white color with added Cobalt [...]

Fokker Dr. I streaky camouflage
Fokker Dr. I have one of the very specific camouflage pattern. In regards to the other pattern this plane, as well Fokker D. VII, had streaky camouflage. This camouflage was made with the strokes of brush and some research that this brush was 8 cm wide. Basic surface was not painted [...]

There is no serious model paint manufacturer who does not make colors for the Luftwaffe airplanes from the WW2 era. White Ensign as you know well manufacture a set of 21 color which cover period from 1935 up to the 1945 but also include interior colors. All colors are semi gloss and have very good [...]

Long time ago I have collect a number of available models related to the Soviet WW2 warplanes. And more over I need some ten years to search until I have found info how many camouflage was used, which colors and so on. That was the time when all painting instructions suggest finishing Kozedub’s La-7 in [...]