Was thinking this earlier actually, i (well my dad) has a copy of ‘Janes combat aircraft of WWII’ and on the front is a griffon engined, clipped wing Spitfire with green/brown upper colours, not sure if this is a black and white photo coloured in or not.
I think they changed during 1941, however Bomber Command aircraft were mostly brown/green upper colours for the rest of the war, unless it was coastal command.
Edit – found this on the internet, just as i thought!
The brown and green camouflage saw the RAF through the Battle of Britain and into1941. With them now taking the fight to the enemy, and having to cross the Channel or North Sea to do it, the brown part of the camouflage stood out against the sea. So it was changed to dark grey, a scheme of grey and green being equally good over land or sea.
From http://freespace.virgin.net/john.dell/spitmark.htm
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