Sodbrenner

Sure, the colors on the replicas are fresher and have a deeper shade but so would the real aircraft coming from the factories, even after say 6 months. The BF 109 picture you posted is the "worst" for me in terms of color, very light grey with almost a blue-ish hue - on my monitor. But hey, of course the colors dont change how they fly or make them less enjoyable :smilewink: just adds more immersion - atleast for me :P

Hey everyone. Couple things first: - Apologies if this has already been mentioned and i just didnt see it. - I want to point out that i do not own any of the german aircraft yet, so everything i say is based off of only pictures and videos. - Since this is a more general subject, i thought it might be better suited in this forum, rather than one of the aircraft specific ones. So, every time i watched a video or saw a picture of the cockpits of the 3 german fighters, i had a feeling that something just does not look right to me and began some digging and i think i found whats bothering me. Wrong cockpit colors - atleast in my eyes. Prior to mid 1940, the Luftwaffe used the grey-green-ish RLM 02 color, however from mid 1940 the black-grey RLM 66 for "all surfaces seen through the windows" was mandatory to better counter glare / relfextions. So atleast from 1941 onwards, all cockpits should be in RLM 66. Sources i managed to find in various forums are the books "Luftwaffe Colours 1935 – 1945 by Michael Ullmann", Luftwaffe Camouflage and Markings 1933-1945 Vol 1&2", "Luftwaffe Camouflage and Markings 1933-1945 Photo Archive: Vol 1" by Kenneth A. Merrick und Jürgen Kiroff. Jürgen Kiroff, the co-author of 2 of these books, owns a company that makes those old RLM colors that are used today for replicas etc. So for example, here is a replica of a FW 190 D-13 in RLM 66: https://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/nachbau-geraetebrett-fw-190-d-13 - which, in my eyes is a quite the difference to what is present in-game for any of the german fighters. https://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/ is a good research site in general, translator needed if you dont speak german. So in regards to the new upgraded A10C cockpit and the upcoming KA-50 update, maybe that is something that could be worked on at some point in the future. What do you guys think about it?