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Gentlemen:
The origin of the olive brown wing on the Fok.E.V/D.VIII was was the well known aviation artist, Peter Endsliegh Castle. Everybody assumed it was correct, inasmuch as the cowlings were olive brown.
In 1999, after reviewing the Fok.E.V photos in the A.E. Ferko Collection at the University of Texas, Dallas. I discovered the wing was in a streaked camouflage. After I got back, I went and looked at all the Fok.E.V/D.VIII and sure enough they were all in a streaked camouflage finish. I had a very sharp set of photographs of Fok.E.V 137/18 take at Le Bouget after the war and they showed the camouflage real well.
Following that revelation, I studied all the Fok.E.V photos I could find, and found at least six variation of the camouflage patterns.
I don't think the axle wing was finished in the streaked camouflage, the Fok.E.V/D.VIII wings were made by a Fokker subsiduari Perzina Piano Forte and were delivered to the Fokker factory finished and ready for installation on the fuselage. I think the axle wing was solid olive brown, the same as the engine hood and cowlings that Fokker built.
Blue skies,
Dan-San
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