Messerschmitt Me410B-2/U4, 5./ZG 26
Revell Monogram
1/48 Scale
Start Build Date: 10/24/2001
Finished: 12/10/2001
137 Pieces
Colors:
Luftwaffe Fighter Camouflage:Licht Blau RLM76,
Grauviolett RLM75, GrauGrun RLM 74
Understand that there were something over a 1000 new or
remanufactured 410's produced during the war. Most of them
arrived during a time when the Luftwaffe was desparately
challenged to increase it's defensive posture and conceal it's
aircraft more effectively on the ground. While most of these
airplanes would likely have left the factory in offensive shades
of Gray over blue (although there is no guarantee of that), it is
likely that the maintenance troops at the repair depots and at
the unit level would have painted the survivors in any shade of
paint they could scrounge up that would provide better
concealment from low-flying allied aircraft. Shades of green,
brown and purple tentatively matched to German late winter/early
spring ground cover and to the prescribed RLM late war colors
would have been the most likely choices. Until some more wartime
color photographs are revealed, however, it is virtually
impossible to be definitive in any of this kind of speculation.
Some 410's colors schemes are well documented. Stick with them
or, if you choose an aircraft that is questionable, build what
you think. appears to match your documentation using your own
best judgment. Stay within the basic parameters of late war
Luftwaffe camouflage principles, and don't worry about it.
Anybody who challenges you will have to prove their point, so you
will either be safe in your decisions or you will learn something
new from one of the Experten. (:O) Virtually anything was
possible and likely during the last few months of the war.
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