Regia Aeronautica Camouflage Patterns

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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:

Regia Aeronautica Colors w/Color Equivalents and Hobby Paint Matches

Here is our Regia Aeronautica Colors w/Color Equivalents and Hobby Paint Matches to help find the right colors for your next projects.

www.cybermodeler.com

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

Scheme	Colors	Pattern	Period	Aircraft	Visual sample
A3	Giallo Mimetico 3 Verde Mimetico 3 Marrone Mimetico 53193 Grigio Mimetico	Yellow, Green, and brown slightly wavy bands, with yellow repeated every second band. Grey undersurface	1940-41	SM.79, SM.82	Sample
A3A	Giallo Mimetico 3 Verde Mimetico 53192 Marrone Mimetico 53193	variation on above	1940-41	SM.79, SM.82	Sample
A4	Giallo Mimetico 3 Verde Mimetico 3 Marrone Mimetico 53193	yellow, green, brown, green, yellow, green, brown, green, etc.	1940-41	SM.79, SM.82
A5	Giallo Mimetico 3 Verde Mimetico 53192 Marrone Mimetico 53193	yellow, green, brown bands blending into eachother	1940	Z1007bis

Multicolored Splotches/hard edged irregular triangles

Scheme	Colors	Pattern	Period	Aircraft	Visual Sample
B1	Giallo Mimetico 3 Verde Mimetico 3 Bruno Mimetico Alluminio or Grigio mimetico	yellow, green, dark brown irregular triangular pattern with light metallic grey or grey undersurfaces	1940	Ba 64, Ba 65	Sample
B2	Giallo 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 shades	1940	Ba 64, Ba 65

Mottled (most common patterns irregular splotches on solid background)

Scheme	Colors	Pattern	Period	Aircraft	Visual Sample
C1	Giallo 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 undersurfaces	1940-41	CR.32, CR.42, G.50, Ro 37, SM.79	Sample
C1A	Giallo Mimetico 1-3 Marrone Mimetico 1-2 Verde Mimetico 3-53192 Grigio Mimetico or Alluminio	Variation on above - more graphic separate splotches	1940-41	CR.42, Ca 311	Sample
C1B	Giallo Mimetico 1-3 Marrone Mimetico 1-2-53193 Verde Mimetico 3 Grigio Mimetico	variation on above - more elongated separate splotches	1940-43	CR.25, G.12, SM.82
C1C	Giallo Verde Marrone Grigio mimetico	blended green/brown splotches on yellow base with grey undersurfaces	1941-42	MC.200	Sample
C2	Giallo Mimetico 3-4 Verde Mimetico 1-2-3-53192 Grigio Mimetico	Green Splotches on Yellow base with grey undersurfaces	1940-43	CR.32, CR.42, BR.20, FN 305, G.50, Ca 311, SM79, SM 81, SM84, MC.200, MC.202, Ca 310	Sample1 Sample2
C2A	Giallo Mimetico 3-4 Verde Mimetico 1-2-3-53192 Grigio Mimetico	smaller splotch variant of above	1940-43	SM.79, SM.81, Ca 310, Ca 311
C2B	Giallo Mimetico 3-4 Verde Mimetico 1-2-3-53192 Grigio Mimetico	more spaced splotches variant of C2	1941-43	MC.200, MC.202	Sample
C3	Verde Mimetico 53192 Verde Mimetico 2-3 Grigio Mimetico	Darker green shade splotches over lighter green base with grey undersurfaces	1940-43	CR.42, BR.20, G.50, SM.79, Ba.65, Ba.88
C3A	Verde Mimetico 53192 Verde Mimetico 3 Grigio Mimetico	hazier elongated variant of above	1940-42	G.50
C3B	Verde Mimetico 53192 Verde Mimetico 3 Grigio Mimetico	Smaller splotch variant of C3	1940-43	SM.79
C4	Verde Mimetico 53192 Verde Mimetico 2 Grigio Mimetico	worm-like pattern of darker green over lighter green with grey undersurfaces	1940-42	MC.200
C5	Verde Mimetico 2-3 Verde Mimetico 3-4 Grigio Mimetico	Yellow splotches over dark green base with grey undersurfaces	1940-43	SM.79, Ca.311, Ba.88, SM.81, RE.2000
C6	Bruno Mimetico Verde Mimetico 3 Grigio Mimetico	spaced green splotches over dark brown base with grey undersurfaces	1940-43	Ca.311, Ba.88	Sample
C7	Verde Mimetico 53192 Bruno Mimetico Grigio Mimetico or Alluminio	spaced dark brown splotches over green base with grey or light metallic grey undersurfaces	1940-41	Ba.88
C8	Verde mimetico 2 Giallo Mimetico 4 Bruno Mimetico Grigio Mimetico	dark brown splotches with yellow surrounds over green base with grey undersurfaces "Poached eggs" camouflage	1941-43	MC.200, MC.202	Sample1 Sample2
C9	Giallo 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 undersurfaces	1941-43	SM.79Sil	Sample
C10
C10A
C10B
C11
C11A

**List is Work in Progress**