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Stephen,
The second picture is not a production machine, the first one (unpainted) is the first production machine (pretty sure).
This prototype D.I (2nd picture) has the mid-fuselage vertical seam to join the front corrugation panel and the rear panel. The turtledeck panels, start at the rear of the diagonal brace of the roll bar, and that fuselage station is where that vertical seam is also located.
This is a confusing example to show everyone. To add to this confusion, Ian Stair modeled this D.I prototype in his drawings in Datafile 33. That was a bad choice on his part or whoever.
To reply to your 3-color comment, my guess is that the starboard wing is the green/mauve camo scheme, and the port wing is not, but could be all green or some low contrast color combination.
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