Is that camouflage on the UNDERSIDE of the drooped elevators ???

Check it out at 3:59

Ken

Could it have been done to ease production – if the elevators aren’t “handed” then you are not held up if you have two “lefts” and no “rights” – as they were made on a sub-contact basis, top side and bottom side would both be painted in camouflage so thet could be fitted to left or to right. By that time topside camouflage against ground attack a/c was the prime consideration – they’d even given up painting the undersides apart for the front 1/3 of the underside of the wing to render the planes inconspicuous to low flying aircraft.

I think the same was done with the He 162 – although by that time the camouflage simply consisted of wing in 81, aileron in 83 on one side and vice versa on the other