VVS Fighter camo colours

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Pantone to RGB conversion

Some VVS skins are getting a bit imaginative and it struck me that if the improper USAAF/RAF/LW skin were to be used folk would soon jump on it......so below is a guide to basic VVS camo.

Nose, tail and fuselage art was often added and some times the camo was "white washed" over winter but this  often ran off when wet (yes it was literally white wash that was used {Mk7 distemper}).

Some times numbers were embelished with edging and or the white of a number or star changed to yellow.

Lighter colours ended up getting grubby with oil,dirt and fuel spills etc.

I will give the colours in pantone numbers and you guys can convert to rgb from the link above.

All VVS fighters had the underside of wings and fuselage coloured AMT 7 there is no pure Panetone colour for this CMYK 53/0/16/0 is close.

For fuselage and upper wings

Yak9T
March 43 Camo Black/Tractor Green AMT6/??? ( Panetone 7/359)

March>October 43 Camo  Black/Green  AMT6/4 (Panetone 7/377)

March>April 43 Camo Green/Dark Green AII (Panetone 383 aging to 377/355-356) (Wing has a distinctive arc pattern)

May>July?43 Camo Brown/Light Brown AII (Panetone 174 aging to 695/129 aging to 612)

October>February 43/44 Camo Grey-blue AMT11 (Panetone 5435) Single grey-blue colour.

October>February 43/44 Camo Dark grey-blue Wood Aerolak (Panetone 5483) Single colour

Dec>March 43/44 Grey-Blue/Dark Grey-Blue AMT11/Aerolack (Panetone 5483/5435)

March 44 >> Camo Two tone grey AMT11/12 (Panetone  5483/431) Official 44/45 VVS Fighter camo

Yak 9U

April 44 >> Two tone grey AMT11/12 (Panetone  5483/431) Official 44/45 VVS Fighter camo

Dec 44 Camo Grey-blue AMT11 (Panetone 5435) Single grey-blue colour (this is a possible variant but would be an unofficial camo .....  it was used on the Yak3 at this time)

La5FN

March>October 43 Camo  Black/Green  AMT6/4 (Panetone 7/377)

September>January 43/44 Camo Dark grey-blue Wood Aerolak (Panetone 5483) Single colour

Oct 43 >> Camo Two tone grey AMT11/12 (Panetone  5483/431) Official 44/45 VVS Fighter camo

Nov 44 Camo Grey-blue AMT11 (Panetone 5435) Single grey-blue colour (Last La5FN's)

La7

May 44>>  Camo Two tone grey AMT11/12 (Panetone  5483/431) Official 44/45 VVS Fighter camo

Nov >January 44/45 Camo  Grey-blue AMT11 (Panetone 5435) Single grey-blue colour

Nov > May 44/45 Camo Dark Grey-blue AMT12 (Panetone 431) Single Dark grey-blue colour

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Applying the above to our present ingame VVS skins

Yak9T

3IAK and Niemen (Airmess) would be fairly old mid 1943 production camo with darkened paint showing ageing as it may look early 44.

3IAK (BH3841) is straight off the production line mid 43 camo.

Default  is straight off the production line mid 44 camo.

Yak9U

163 IAP (The Best1) Very  dirty 44 camo with darkened paint showing ageing as it may look late 44 or 45.

293 IAP (Mongul) this camo is of a Yak9T used during the Caucasus Campaign (possibly by 293 IAP). It should not be a Yak9U skin.

347 IAP (Merlinx) is straight off the production line  44/45  camo.

518 IAP (Airmess) this could be a winter 44/45 camo

Default is straight off the production line mid 44 camo.

La5FN

5 GIAP (Kweassa) mid 44 camo once white washed and now "stylised" as it appeared in early 45.

Default winter 43/44 camo (a little dark)

La7

156 IAP & 9 GIAP (Airmess) winter 44/45 camo stylised as they appeared in early 45

Default is straight off the production line 44/45 camo (a little dark)

GIAP111 (Airmess) This could easily represent a dirty AMT12 camo of Jan 45 as it looked in April/May45

My screen is not perfectly colour matched so it would be silly to get finicky over tones etc. I think working from the panetone to RGB converter above you guys can start from spot on colours for the back ground camo colours. The light/dark brown Yak9U should be a yak9T however.