"Battle of Britain Colours" Topic
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| AC1963 | 17 Jun 2018 1:26 p.m. PST |
Firstly looking at Vallejo as they are most easily available to me and I want to stay to acrylic. Looking at these Model Air colours based on their RAF and Luftwaffe colours Luftwaffe RLM 65 Light Blue – 71.255
RLM 71 Dark Green – 71.015
RLM 70 Black Green – 71.021
RAF
Dark Earth – 71.323
Dark Green – 71.324 And this is where it gets confusing, the RAF pack includes Sky Type S – 71.302
Duck Egg Green – 71.009
Duck Egg Blue – 71.404 From the Vallejo colour charts these are three different colours but are all supposed to be the same thing – different names for the same colour. Any idea which one is the best? |
| slugbalancer | 17 Jun 2018 2:39 p.m. PST |
Sky Type S became the official colour for the undersides of fighters in mid 1940. Due to shortages, other similar colours appear to have been used, hence the other paints.
Don't forget that before these colours the undersides were painted black (port) and white (starboard) and some of the aircraft involved in the BoB would have been painted in this way. |
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