WWII aircraft camo scheme plans online?

Hi all

I'm painting up some metal minis for gaming, and looking for some camouflage & marking schemes to use. WW2, all periods & nations. Thing is, I have some examples from quite a few countries, but I'd like more for variety. I like my gaming minis to be distinct, each flight or small group of 4 or so minis with a distinct, but relatively accurate, paint job, so it's easier to keep track. Usually that comes down to a different colour spinner or fuselage band - US fighters are easy to differentiate this way, but others, notably RAF, aren't.

What I'm looking for is a website with some paint schemes. Not just profiles, I can find loads of those, like Wings Palette. That's a great source in general, but has very few full plan views to show me how to paint the camo schemes. Ideally, what I want is a website with illustrations of model instruction sheet paint schemes, with the

3-view plans and colour notes.

I'm covering a variety of nationalities in WW2, including British & Commonwealth, German, US, Soviet, Finnish, and probably eventually everyone else, from start to end (and beyond...) of the war.

Does anyone know of such a site? I know I could buy books on the subject, but for a few paint schemes, it's a bit expensive!

Wulf

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Wulf Corbett
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I think you'll have to do the rounds of the kit manufacturers for online .pdfs of their instruction sheets - IIRC, some of the newer Airfix sheets are full colour. You may have to go to the individual model and quite deep into the options to find them. Also IIRC, with some WW2 RAF schemes the pattern was supposed to remain the same, but the upper surface colours reversed on alternate aircraft!

Cheers,

Moramarth

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Moramarth

Wulf Corbett wrote the following:

Can you start here?

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more with a Google search on wwii+aircraft+camouflage

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willshak

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One example. Search under references for more.

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tomcervo

That's quite nice, thanks.

Wulf

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Wulf Corbett

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