Fading Two Color Camoflage Schemes?

grey or white over the top will look like... a grey or white overspray...

Try a lightened with tan version of each colour, but in the centre of each individual panel.

Spits were cosseted & looked after, except for Africa/far east, they didn't generally get that scruffy...

then try a pro-moddeler or 'sludge' wash for dirtying it up a bit, to accentuate the panel lines.

It's your plane so do what seems right to you.

Jon_a_its

grey or white over the top will look like... a grey or white overspray...

Try a lightened with tan version of each colour, but in the centre of each individual panel.

Spits were cosseted & looked after, except for Africa/far east, they didn't generally get that scruffy...

then try a pro-moddeler or 'sludge' wash for dirtying it up a bit, to accentuate the panel lines.

It's your plane so do what seems right to you.

Ditto. 

I'm working on a Fw-190A-3 right now, and I'm fading the colors as I go. Just wrapped RLM 75 last night:

Another option I used on a P-47 sporting RAF Ocean Gray/Dark Green camo was to overspray with a highly thinned Dark Green to tie it together and make the color contrast more muted. You could do this OR maybe even mix the colors 50/50, then dilute that to like 10% paint and spray that over.

I used a heavily thinned mixture of Testor's MM Radome Tan on this Airacobra.. Actually, it was more of a Radome Tan-tinted thinner, and applied in successive coats, letting each dry to the touch.  I just keep spraying it until just short of the desired "fade-level", as it can tric you into thinking that "one time" will do it, when in actuallity you already got there... So be careful.. You can't "un-fade" it, and you don't want it to look like it crashed into a flour-mill...

The fade-level will also depend on the climate... In North Africa and the South Pacific, they faded quickly, but in temperate climates like France, Britian, Germany, the fading was much-less pronounced... Also, there was far less "color-shifting" in the cooler climates, as opposed to the Western Desert or salt air and sun in New Guinea or the Solomon Islands....

Don't forget to fade the insignias either, as they are the same age (or sometimes, even older) as the base-color...  Squadron/Group markings & codes, nose-art, etc, will be "newer" paint, therefor not faded as much as the stuff from the factory is.. Same applies with patches and replacement panels... To give each panel it's "own" look, I just use pastels...

Polly Scale "Dust" works great for a fade effect over multi color schemes. If you do heavier coats in the center of panels for a panel fade effect ot really works good. I used it on this Stuka.