"RAF Uniform Colour" Topic
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| bridget midget the return | 03 Feb 2014 1:12 p.m. PST |
Hi Guys Recommendations for paint for WWII era RAF uniform blue please. Thanks |
 Jeff Ewing  | 03 Feb 2014 1:49 p.m. PST |
I used a Ceramcoat "Sterling Blue," a Payne's Gray wash, and then highlight with Sterling Blue. I think I may have used a French Gray-Blue for a highest highlight. I'll snap a pic tonight. |
| bridget midget the return | 04 Feb 2014 11:47 a.m. PST |
thanks Jeff. Really would have thought that there would have been a premix of it. |
| JARROVIAN | 06 Feb 2014 4:14 p.m. PST |
In the bad old days Airfix used to make one |
| spontoon | 09 Feb 2014 10:52 a.m. PST |
The official name was Russian Grey, so gives you some ideas. I use Quaker Blue from Decorart. |
| Etranger | 09 Feb 2014 6:54 p.m. PST |
I had a tin of the Airfix RAF blue until just a few years ago. Humbrol has a similar colour in enamels, number. 96, called RAF Blue. link I assume that their acrylic version is similar. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 13 Jun 2014 3:45 p.m. PST |
Any truth in the story that the RAF ended up in this colour because a shed-load of uniforms intended for the Russian cavalry were not shipped out due to the Revolution? |
| spontoon | 13 Jun 2014 5:18 p.m. PST |
Stranger things have happened! |
| Jemima Fawr | 15 Jun 2014 6:07 a.m. PST |
Yes, it was fabric for cavalry cloaks rather than for uniforms per se. The Russians had used that 'horizon blue' colour for cavalry cloaks since the 18th Century and possibly even earlier. However, the RAF soon found that colour to be rather bright in hue and in the 20s toned it down to the familiar grey-blue. |
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