"What colours were airfield buildings in late WW2?" Topic

I am looking for info on what colours to paint up some 6mm airfield hangers, nissen huts, control tower, barrack huts, and so on for a late WW2 airfield, preferably british or german!

Would they be bluish? green? white? Pics i have found so far don't really help :(

Any info gratefully received as i don't have much of a clue at the mo.

Many thanks

British, probably green and brown camouflage pattern.

German seriously blackened, lots of holes and craters?

The Japanese may have had Nissan huts, but the Brits had Nissen huts. :)

(Sorry. That was uncalled for.)

ouch Plynkes – where's the edit button… :)

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist making that lame joke. I only noticed it because I made the exact same spelling error myself on another forum the other day.

When I was in Germany in the late 1970s there were many buildings still cammo painted from WWII. Most of the ones at the airfield in Stuttgart were blue, gray, black with the intent of breaking up the outlines of the buildings. As an Image Interpreter at the time we did not have problems with identifying these buildings from photos but understood how pilots could have problems while in flight.
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James Mattes

Green and black was most common – a lot of this camouflage still remains on old RAF buildings – particularly the black paint. Green and dark earth was also common.

The buildings at Duxford are mainly in green and dark earth disruptive.

White isn't a terribly practical colour for installations in wartime south of the arctic circle;)

When I was a kid Elmdon now Birmingham International still had the old hangars up at Bickenhill, they were an olive green over all with a darker green disruptive pattern.

being an old serviceman i would guess ther paintwas the same as on the aircraft, you know what procurment are like…….no additions unless its absolutely neccessary (in their eyes only).

Something else worth mentioning is that large military or industrial buildings in urban areas were often painted as terraces of houses in various shades of brown, grey, etc. The roofs were then painted in an irregular 'cubist' pattern of greys and browns – very similar to the later British Berlin Brigade camouflage scheme. The flying boat hangars at RAF Pembroke Dock were painted in this manner and the Rolls Royce works in Crewe was still painted like this when I was last there in the 90s (the roof of the RR works was apparently painted green with cows!).

"the roof of the RR works was apparently painted green with cows!"

No paintbrushes? Man, those wartime shortages get everywhere!