I just got a copy of Monogram's Offical Luftwaffe Painting Guide--wonderful!
An interesting discovery is a ME-163 Komet with red-brown blotches here and there. The Luftwaffe used a red-oxide primer on their aircraft, just as the Wehrmacht did so on their armor! I haven't read far enough to know if it was the same color or widely used. With this in mind I offer this URL to a post on the armor forum about the red AFV primer:
Panzer Primer
A shameful procrastinator, I have meant to post these tidbits for awhile:
Canopies: the JU-88 cockpit and bombadier windscreen fitters were obviously not aircraft modelers--obvious gaps between the framing and the fuselage. They wouldn't win any IPMS contests...
The FW-190 had a prominent seam running down the middle of the fuselage from the canopy to the empendage. Poor seam work
I haven't found a good photo of the 190's belly so can't say if it was there, too. I use as example the book about Yellow 10.The ME-262 fuselage was puttied along rivet lines to smooth the airflow. No need to scribe panel lines there.
IIRC, so was the -109.
According to the Monogram Guide, the tech order for the ME-262 specified that the underside was to be unpainted except for the wooden gear doors, the RATO plate and the jet pods; this was frequently ignored. But an interesting, historically accurate paint job, much like FW-190D Yellow 10.
More as I think of them.
I hope others will share your findings.
