Colors of Yak-1M

[Jicehem]

Hello all,

What were the camouflage colors of the Yak-1Ms, especially those of the "Régiment Normandie" ?
Thank you for your replies.

Jicehem

[No.1]

Yak-1M or Yak-1 mod 43 has later camouflage colors, based on grey colors. I have chips of this colors but they are packed somewhere so I will find other source of info, also very reliable.

[No.1]

Here you are mate First at all image of the original Soviet paint chart, take a note on colors AMT-7, AMT-11 and AMT-12. As you see topside lighter color is much grey blue and not light (it look so pale on images). Years ago when I use it first time on my color profiles and plastic kits, I was satanized by Serbian forum experts (and they did not hesitate to en-light their foreigner friends about idiot with inaccurate colors). Today when Russian experts demystified real look of the paints (by the way, they do have excellent research much before), modelers can do their kits much better then ever before (and my colors get ultimate proof).

Other material in attach is the color images and I have no idea of source and reliability (maybe they are colorized images). But most important is first document attached.

Hope this helps

[Jicehem]

Thank you fot this reply. I thought that they were green and grey colors... and I was wrong 
And, I think, Yak-1 were green/brown on uppersurfaces and blue on underside.
I have two kits to build from Mikro (Not the best ones-especially the propeller !) but they render well.

Cheers,
Jicehem

[Jicehem]

Other material in attach is the color images and I have no idea of source and reliability (maybe they are colorized images). But most important is first document attached.

That are not colorised pictures. That are dias which were made in 1945 when the Yak-3s of Régiment Normandie-Niémen arrived at Le Bourget. They were the property of (later) Général Joseph Risso, the man you see on a picture as Capitaine Risso. I knew him when I was in the Armée de l'air and had chance to speak with him several times even after I retired. He had been, for a time, the President of the French-Russian fellowship upon Normandie-Niémen. During speakings he learnt me that his Yak-7D (and other Yaks) were "aluminium 21" and not "white 21"... These dias are now the property of the "Service historique de l'armée de l'air" at Vincennes. They were given them by Joseph Risso himself.

Jicehem  

[No.1]

Thank you for additional info and I am very glad about the info of the images And as I can remember, Micro made more or less correct kits but I never compare them and not sure about

[Second Air Force]

This is an excellent thread, friends!

I am very glad to know that these are not colorized photos. I often wish that the ability to colorize black-and-white images had never been "invented"......

[Tweety]