>>11665787>Why would the squiggles not be black?Black is colour RLM22, it was solely used for markings (crosses/letters) or applied to nightcamouflages either on the entire plane for early nightfighters or undersides for anything after early 1943. RLM22 is never used in patterns or mottles, if as camo, it is in whole areas only.
>They put them in the art work as dark green or black green, but why would they not have just used black? After painting the whole underside black just went over the top and sides with the same black?KG1 didn't have standardized camouflages, at least regarding black or light undersides (partially due to getting a mix of factoryfresh and used aircraft, they only got the He 177 in March 44 so it took a while to get to strength, operations only lasted from June to July 44 when He 177 was retired), so black wasn't actively available to use on every plane anyway and it wasn't used for patterns.
The squiggles look very dark on the photo which is why KG1 schemes are often depicted having green ones, which is rare since usually grey (RLM74/75) was used for meanders and mottles on light bases, since the RLM70(blackgreen) is the only one that can reasonably appear dark enough to be confused for black, no BF 109 or FW 190 ever had black spinners either all were RLM70, black spinners are artistic interpretation and false restorations only, all caused by similiarity of these in photos and impressions during combat.
I believe the scheme in original post is RLM76 as base, RLM22 on undersides and RLM70 for camo. KG1 was an old bomber unit, they had stocks of 70/71 and 22 (not used on upsides tho), that explains the unusual green meanders opposed to the common grey ones.
Picrel is a He 177 of KG1 in the same scheme, without black undersides.
The only operational sorties were in June/July 44 against soviet railways during daytime, but during buildup of the swuadron (March-May) demands changed constantly so that explains the irregular undersides.
