Blue/yellow/red
The roundels were applied in the fall of 1940 when the ARR received its first batch of Emils. The Mihai (Michaels) Crosses were applied in the late spring of 1941 before the invasion of Russia.
Several Emils did not get the yellow nose applied until Barbarossa as well, which led to several different shades of yellow being used as the early ones were painted with their own stocks of yellow paint, and the later ones were either acquired from the Germans with the yellow already applied or repainted with the RLM 04 supplied by the Germans.
I decided not to do the underside markings exactly the same (even though I have yet to see a skin or model of this plane that uses both insignia on the undersides) because as you can see in the pic, there is no white border on the overlapped portion of the cross, and it seemed to blend together way too much for my tatses. Looked
too field applied for my tastes. So I opted to fade the cockade and border the entire cross.
Although, to be honest, since you can't see the tail on this aircraft, there isn't agreement on whether this is his original "Yellow 9" or a replacement aircraft. It may be a replacement with the crosses and noseart applied over the original. Nobody is too sure.
"Yellow 9" did not survive to be replaced by his G2 "White 227", it may have been a combat loss replaced by "Yellow 27" or "Yellow 38" two of the others often seen in profile in de Cesares markings.
