Copied from an earlier post just to cast the net a little wider:
I’m aware that the tail marking is spurious but can anyone point the way to a more accurate rendition of the painted camouflage. I recall that when I first tackled the kit (c.1964) the instructions would have you just paint light blue lines over the base plastic colour, which back then was a sort of khaki drab. Is there anything similar, and authentic, which I could apply to this model? I’m sort of keen to get the best from it, though purely in a nostalgic way, so rivets will remain, poor fit will stay, but I’d like the colour scheme to at least reflect what is on the box up to a point. I believe the wing and tailplane schemes would probably have consisted of a splinter pattern.
Over to any Luftwaffe experts who may have some ideas.
Come on you Luftwaffe modellers - educate this poor (normally armour) modeller(!)
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On the topside, it looks like they painted it solid dark green (Schwarzgrun or Dunkelgrun) and then painted the lighter color in a freehand line pattern. Maybe a buff color? Does look like the box top has the underside in white.
Thanks Greg; I kind of suspected it would be one of the Luftwaffe greens on the top; I equally suspect that the underside and the overpaint of the “lines” would probably be in light blue.
It doesn’t help that the artist seems to have portrayed his interpretation as an almost at dusk scenario, which messes the colours up a bit.
Thanks anyway for the response; I’m not sure when I’ll tackle this one; messing with the kits of my childhood has distracted me far more than it should and the rack of unfinished 1/35 projects is stacking up!
A soft spot for vintage Revell kits. The outline of the fuselage and wings are not bad. I sawed up the canopy and added a full one. Also replaced the undercarriage which are crude and have to be bent and not completely vertical as in the kit. The squiggles can be either RLM 65 or 76. As for the green colours, most of the Fw’s were painted in 2 tone greys except for JG 54 on the Russian Front who used greens. Fw expertens would give a much better and detailed answer.
Thanks for that; the advice on colours will be very useful - once I get around to starting the project!
Far too many models on the go at the moment.
