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Regia Aeronautica Camouflage Patterns

Saetta

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Hello,

Below is a list of the various camouflage patterns used by aircraft of the Regia Aeronautica. The sources used involve several secondary sources and modeller references (which painstakingly dissect the main colors and patterns used), however mostly I will refer to Chris Dunning's Courage Alone: The Italian Airforce 1940-1943.

First and foremost, a great reference with regards to the specific colors of Italian camouflage can be seen at the following link:

Now onto the patterns themselves. (I recommend the Google chrome extension: Hover Zoom for easier viewing of the images without redirecting the page)

Metropolitan territories: Diagonal wavy bands merging into one another
SchemeColorsPatternPeriodAircraftVisual sample
A3Giallo Mimetico 3
Verde Mimetico 3
Marrone Mimetico 53193
Grigio Mimetico
Yellow, Green, and brown slightly wavy bands, with yellow repeated every second band. Grey undersurface1940-41SM.79, SM.82Sample
A3AGiallo Mimetico 3
Verde Mimetico 53192
Marrone Mimetico 53193
variation on above1940-41SM.79, SM.82Sample
A4Giallo Mimetico 3
Verde Mimetico 3
Marrone Mimetico 53193
yellow, green, brown, green, yellow, green, brown, green, etc.1940-41SM.79, SM.82
A5Giallo Mimetico 3
Verde Mimetico 53192
Marrone Mimetico 53193
yellow, green, brown bands blending into eachother1940Z1007bis
Multicolored Splotches/hard edged irregular triangles
SchemeColorsPatternPeriodAircraftVisual Sample
B1Giallo Mimetico 3
Verde Mimetico 3
Bruno Mimetico
Alluminio or Grigio mimetico
yellow, green, dark brown irregular triangular pattern with light metallic grey or grey undersurfaces1940Ba 64, Ba 65Sample
B2Giallo Mimetico 3
Verde Mimetico 53192
Verde Mimetico 3
Marrone Mimetico 2
Alluminio or Grigio mimetico
smaller triangles than above, with both light and dark green shades1940Ba 64, Ba 65
Mottled (most common patterns irregular splotches on solid background)
SchemeColorsPatternPeriodAircraftVisual Sample
C1Giallo Mimetico 1-2-3-4
Verde Mimetico 2-3-53192
Marrone Mimetico 1-2-53193
Bruno mimetico
Grigio Mimetico
Green and brown, or dark brown separate splotches on yellow base with gray undersurfaces1940-41CR.32, CR.42, G.50, Ro 37, SM.79Sample
C1AGiallo Mimetico 1-3
Marrone Mimetico 1-2
Verde Mimetico 3-53192
Grigio Mimetico or Alluminio
Variation on above - more graphic separate splotches1940-41CR.42, Ca 311Sample
C1BGiallo Mimetico 1-3
Marrone Mimetico 1-2-53193
Verde Mimetico 3
Grigio Mimetico
variation on above - more elongated separate splotches1940-43CR.25, G.12, SM.82
C1CGiallo Verde
Marrone
Grigio mimetico
blended green/brown splotches on yellow base with grey undersurfaces1941-42MC.200Sample
C2Giallo Mimetico 3-4
Verde Mimetico 1-2-3-53192
Grigio Mimetico
Green Splotches on Yellow base with grey undersurfaces1940-43CR.32, CR.42, BR.20, FN 305, G.50, Ca 311, SM79, SM 81, SM84, MC.200, MC.202, Ca 310Sample1
Sample2
C2AGiallo Mimetico 3-4
Verde Mimetico 1-2-3-53192
Grigio Mimetico
smaller splotch variant of above1940-43SM.79, SM.81, Ca 310, Ca 311
C2BGiallo Mimetico 3-4
Verde Mimetico 1-2-3-53192
Grigio Mimetico
more spaced splotches variant of C21941-43MC.200, MC.202Sample
C3Verde Mimetico 53192
Verde Mimetico 2-3
Grigio Mimetico
Darker green shade splotches over lighter green base with grey undersurfaces1940-43CR.42, BR.20, G.50, SM.79, Ba.65, Ba.88
C3AVerde Mimetico 53192
Verde Mimetico 3
Grigio Mimetico
hazier elongated variant of above1940-42G.50
C3BVerde Mimetico 53192
Verde Mimetico 3
Grigio Mimetico
Smaller splotch variant of C31940-43SM.79
C4Verde Mimetico 53192
Verde Mimetico 2
Grigio Mimetico
worm-like pattern of darker green over lighter green with grey undersurfaces1940-42MC.200
C5Verde Mimetico 2-3
Verde Mimetico 3-4
Grigio Mimetico
Yellow splotches over dark green base with grey undersurfaces1940-43SM.79, Ca.311, Ba.88, SM.81, RE.2000
C6Bruno Mimetico
Verde Mimetico 3
Grigio Mimetico
spaced green splotches over dark brown base with grey undersurfaces1940-43Ca.311, Ba.88Sample
C7Verde Mimetico 53192
Bruno Mimetico
Grigio Mimetico or Alluminio
spaced dark brown splotches over green base with grey or light metallic grey undersurfaces1940-41Ba.88
C8Verde mimetico 2
Giallo Mimetico 4
Bruno Mimetico
Grigio Mimetico
dark brown splotches with yellow surrounds over green base with grey undersurfaces

"Poached eggs" camouflage
1941-43MC.200, MC.202Sample1
Sample2
C9Giallo Mimetico 2
Verde Mimetico 2-3
Verde Mimetico 1-53192
Grigio Azzurro Chiaro 1
dark green and light green splotches over yellow base with light grey/blue undersurfaces1941-43SM.79SilSample
C10
C10A
C10B
C11
C11A

**List is Work in Progress**
 
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