I managed to get the book Italian Naval Camouflage of World War II" by Marco Ghiglino and decided to share some info on Italian submarine camo on this site
June 1940 Italian submarines were painted a very dark grey almost black
Sept 40 the Scire converted to carry SLC human torpedos was given a cmo scheme of a greenish-grey base with a silhouette of a fishing vessel heading in the opposite direction to the boat painted on both sides in a dark color
3 Jan 41 Maricosom the submarine command ordered that submarines painted with a blue-grey base with dicing in neutral shades (brown). At La Spezia the dicing was seen as spots with straight edges. At Taranto it was applied as slanted and broken lines. In Mar 41 tests the Italians found the one at La Spezia was most effective using patches with more rounded contours.
For some classes of submarine (Bandiera, Bragadin and Squalo) the "big nose" was to use the light grey sported by the surface units in 1942 this was replaced with the dark grey of the horizontial decks and bulges
Dec 41 the use of a lighter blue/grey background on the deck was decided upon, with the tops of the bulges in dark grey
Atlantic submarines: the Bianchi before leaving Italy the conning tower and part of the raised deck were painted a dark grey colour much lighter than the regulartory dark grey. All atlantic submarines adopted this type of livery until early Jan 1941 when they went to dark gray and later light grey like the German u-boats.
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