Slug Balancer's Italian Tavola 10 Colours

The reform of 1941

During the summer of 1941 the DGCA (Direzione Generale dell'Aviazione Civile or Direzione Generale delle Custuizioni Aeronautica) adopted new rules concerning the painting of aircraft, including a table with samples of the paints, Table 10 (which, although announced in October 1941, would only actually be distributed only in the spring of 1942) and standardised usage.
This not only reduced the number of colours but also the schemes available,

Metropolitan, with top surfaces entirely of Dark Olive Green.
Tropical, for use in North Africa, with upper surfaces Dark Olive Green and light Hazelnut (then inverted , as noted below).
Seaplanes & night aircraft, with top surfaces entirely of dark gray blue.

For all schemes, the lower surfaces were always shaded light blue gray.
This will be the last provision adopted on the camouflage of the aircraft, with the exception of the circular of June 1942 which reversed the colours of aircraft operating in Africa, as the previous scheme (green with brown spots) turned out to be too dark for that theatre of operations.
There were significant differences between companies as they used different camouflage patterns, still using the same paint. Differences could occur between successive series of the same type of airplane, even if produced by the same company. Tavola 10 provides 12, which only the first 4 are for camouflage purposes. See the table below for usage.

No.	Colour	Usage
1	Grigio Azzurro Chiaro Light Gray Blue	Ventral surfaces military aircraft use & Internal
2	Verde Oliva Scuro Dark Olive Green	Dorsal and lateral surfaces on military aircraft.
3	Grigio Azzurro Scuro Dark Gray Blue	Dorsal and lateral surfaces seaplanes and airplanes used at night.
4	Nocciola Chiaro Light Hazelnut	Clear spots on olive green, for aircraft used in the colonies.
5	Bianco Avorio Ivory White	Full colour for training aircraft.
6	Bianco Neve Snow White	Full colour aircraft health - insignia / badge & oxygen tubing.
7	Giallo Cromo Chrome Yellow	Engine cowlings, bands and various signs & fuel pipes.
8	Rosso Bandiera Flag Red	Insignia & fire hoses.
9	Verde Bandiera Flag Green	Coolant pipes.
10	Bruno Brown	Oil pipelines.
11	Azzurro Blue	Air pipes.
12	Nero Black	Hulls of seaplanes - propeller blades, dashboards, writing & exhaust pipes.