Graf Zeplin Bf-109T possible paint Schemes: what would be the options

[Stan in YUL]

What would Mediterranean deployment bf109T look like? 

I am trying to get some ideas for carrier based Luft46.

Thanks in advance

[jcf]

Probably similar to the blues and greys of the late war air defense Me 109G and K, with slightly brighter blues with greenish overtones on the topside. A rigid splinter would be unlikely. The underside would likely trend towards a very light, almost white, grey with maybe a very slight blueish tint. Counter intuitively trying to hide an aircraft against a blue sky by painting the underside blue makes it more visible.

[Mossie]

There was a book called Tragerflotten by John Baxter which detailed a hypothetical Kriegsmarine air arm including possible colour schemes. It's out of print, but some of the art can be seen on the Secret Projects forum. If you're not a member, do a Google image search on the name and some of the artwork will come up
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/were-there-any-other-candidates-to-the-german-kriegsmarine-carrier-based-aircraft.36976/

[Stan in YUL]

Thank you very much gents!

[Dizzyfugu]

Late war would be difficult to tell. Since the 109T was a dedicated carrier aircraft one can assume that they carried earlier on a scheme in RLM 72/73/65 with a low waterline, but after the grey tones had been introduced anything is speculative - but RLM 74/75/76 would be plausible. Maybe there had been measures to modify that base, though, with wiggly lines of RLM 76 from above?

[Stan in YUL]

Late war would be difficult to tell. Since the 109T was a dedicated carrier aircraft one can assume that they carried earlier on a scheme in RLM 72/73/65 with a low waterline, but after the grey tones had been introduced anything is speculative - but RLM 74/75/76 would be plausible. Maybe there had been measures to modify that base, though, with wiggly lines of RLM from above?

bang on 

[jcf]

There was a book called Tragerflotten by John Baxter which detailed a hypothetical Kriegsmarine air arm including possible colour schemes. It's out of print, but some of the art can be seen on the Secret Projects forum. If you're not a member, do a Google image search on the name and some of the artwork will come up
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/were-there-any-other-candidates-to-the-german-kriegsmarine-carrier-based-aircraft.36976/

The notion of the He 100 as a carrier based aircraft is hilarious.
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It was so complicated and fiddly, the design made it difficult to maintain, that the Luftwaffe didn't want it as a land based fighter. It'd be a nightmare at sea.