The engine set up on FW-190D / Ta-152 used a “power egg” that allowed whole engine/ prop to be replaced as a unit. Was the lower panel part of the “egg”? Research I have seen for JG301 “Green 9” implies the engine area was a different shade of green than the late war greens. Jumo pods were used on JU-88s so supposition is it might be RLM 70 or 71. Trying to figure out version of RLM 76 would be use for the lower cowl panel.
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There is an article on keymodelworld about an IBG kit in 1:72 of a Jumo 213 on a maintenance/transport trolley and a starter cart; if the box art is to be believed, only the very front cowl, back to the engine flaps, was integral to the power egg:
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Heres the intel I was questioning.
(got scroll down a bit) Painting of Green 9: Ta 152 H-1 W.Nr. 150168 - Page 4 of 6 - Verde9.com
The article Luftwaffe RLM Camouflage Colors goes into some depth about the changes in the prescribed colors for camouflage and suggests that RLM 83 was a replacement for RLM 74 in the 74/75 pattern, but which didn’t use imported chromium (as RLM 70, 71, and 74 did) and used only materials available within Germany. The article includes a table of colors from six different historical references, showing that even the historians don’t always agree on specific shades, and that they have an interesting propensity to claim that their interpretation is, to use Merrick and Kiroff’s declaration, “the only accurate source of Luftwaffe colours produced since manufacture ceased at war’s end”, while Ullman, commenting on the tipped-in color chart in his book, admits that, although the intention was to match specified colors, there were many variations in shade – differences that had to be accepted then and now.
And there is info now that RLM83 is actually a dark blue for aircraft operating mostly over water. The dark green being a variant of 82. (Got AKs RLM83 and it would look more at home on an F4F or SBD.)