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The mottling effect is either surface corrosion of the steel skin or a very thin application of a camouflage paint INHG
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There are several photos of this a/c with the same man in the cockpit. He's obviously not a pilot and the photos are from the Yokota Air Base, probably after the end of the war.
Below another photo with the same a/c and US service men (those are not USAAF/USAF uniforms). IMHO it's natural weathering.

Source: Nakajima Ki-115 | World War Photos

 

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Mechanics pose for a group photo with an A6M2 Zero Model 21 of the 201 Kokutai at Lakunai Airfield, Rabaul, circa mid-1943 FACB

 

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Ki-34 aircraft circa 1940s WW2B

 

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Nakajima Ki-49 Model 1 of the Army Air Communications School MODE

 

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Part of Combined Fleet in Tsingtao Battery Park Akagi, Kirishima, Kumano, Ryujo, Mikuma and Fuso March 1939 MARS

 

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Planes and men gathered on the flight deck of the IJN Zuikaku Truk 1943 JAPE

 

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IJN pilot Suegoro Shimizu at Atsugi AB 194401945 with Nakajima J1N1 Gekko and A6M fighters REDD

 

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IJNS kaga with a type 96 attack plane leaving her deck South China Sea 1937-1938 GAKK

 

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Ki-115 Tsurugi (Sabre) INHG

 

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PIMA

 

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Fomation of Ki-32s of 3 Hikō Sentai at Yokaichi AF 1939 aircraft in foreground is named "Asakaze" and second is "Suzukaze" MODE

 

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E13A1 is being hooked up prior to being hoisted aboard its parent ship INHG

 

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First captain of the 244th Sentai FACB

 

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Ensign Eizo Nakamura and his A6M2 Model 21 Bakusen (Tokko fighter-bomber) right before departing from Kanoya Air Base for a 'special attack' mission as part of Shōwa Unit No. 3 (original unit Yatabe Kokutai) 16 April 1945 FACB

 

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G4M1 of the Misawa Kokutai 326 2nd Chutai 353 and 358 3rd Chutai over Rabaul September 1942 AUST

 

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Ground crew sit under the wings of 3th Kokutai A6M2 Model 21s at Lakunai Airfield, Rabaul, September 1942. FACB

 

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IJN Zuikaku's B5N2 taking off JAPE

 

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Kawasaki Ki-45 Army Type 2 Two-Seat Fighter Toryu belonging to 53rd Sentai (note the handpainted number 65 on the tail) photographed at Kashiwa Air Base around February 1945 FACB

 

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Yokosuka D4Y1 or D4Y2s with D4Y4s with a trainer in background REDD

 

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Three A6M2-Ns and a Mitsubishi F1M1 of the 34th Kokutai seen on a beach INHG