[?]I am building a 1/72 surmovik. I know the summer camo,green and brown, with a blue underside;but I don’t know if the undeside of the winter camo, was blue or white. I also wonder what color is the underside of the grey and black camo. I am also cureous if there are any other camo’s.[?][xx(]
As far as I can tell from the limited references I have, Sturmoviks were always finished with blue undersides. Late in the war, some fighters had a light gray undersurface, but not IL-2s. Sturmoviks seem to have been usually in the black and green or two-tone green uppers, with whitewash applied in winter, either overall or in bands. Accurate Miniatures has some info on their instructions for IL-2 kits. As an aside, IL-2a were worked very hard in primitive conditions, so would often be very weatherbeaten. Weathering for wood wings would be quite different from metal, though, and reference material is hard to find. I suggest you look for a Russian source.
A great source for all a/c flown by Russia during WWII is the site, Modeling the Aircraft of the Soviet VVS at:
http://www.kithobbyist.com/VVS/index.php
Hope this helps, it’s been an invaluable source for me.
thanks
I wonder if there is a nignt variant in all black or somthing. I also like info on an other thing posibly related, i evan think the stumovik killers are intresting.