I've been priming and painting which doesn't give much to show. I now have the underside done in RLM 76.
Wing tips will be aluminium, hence the masking.
As usual I can't capture the post shading etc in one of my snapshots, I like it subtle anyway.
This brings me on to the topic of the upper camouflage colours. The Do 335 hand book is explicit about the colours, RLM 81 and RLM 82, both with the descriptive 'dunkelgrun' or dark green.
I don't want to write an essay here but there is a problem with RLM 81 and recent research has done much to explain what was going on.
I have sprayed potential colour combinations for the model on a trusty milk bottle to explain why I'm making the choice I am.
The combination on the right is RLM 82 with a British Dark Green colour I sprayed as an experiment and we can ignore that.
In the middle is what we normally think of as an 81/82 combination. Nobody with normal colour vision could describe the 81 as dark green. It is to the casual observer a distinctly browny olive colour. I don't think this is how the Do 335 was finished, though plenty of models are!
On the left is what we normally think of as an 82/83 combination. In this case the RLM 83 is most definitely a dark green colour. I think this is the combination in which the Do 335 was finished.
This begs the question, why are you using 82/83 when original documents specify 81/82?
The answer lies in the mis-identification of RLM 83. There is a mounting body of evidence to suggest that RLM 83 was in fact a BLUE colour, used for maritime camouflage, certainly in the Mediterranean. BOTH the brownish colour referred to as RLM 81 AND the dark green colour usually referred to as RLM 83 are in fact versions of RLM 81.
The jury is still out on this, but I'm convinced enough to go with the two greens combination, as seen on the left of my milk bottle.
Cheers
Steve