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Scale Aircraft Modelling Magazine November 2017

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Colour Conundrum
The Truth about Late War Luftwaffe Camouflage?
By Paul Lucas

Часть 1: RLM81 and RLM82

Цитата:

"For many years there has been some question and a great deal of debate about both the nomenclature and hue of the three 'late war' RLM colours introduced for the upper surface camouflage of Luftwaffe aircraft during 1944, RLM81, RLM82, and RLM83. Much of this debate has centred on the hues of these colours with much confusion being caused by differing descriptions both in the written documents of the time and subjective descriptions of the colours found on various artefacts, which range in size from relatively small airframe components up to and including whole aircraft. RLM81 in particular seems to be a particular bone of contention as it seems to vary in hue from one artefact to another usually being colloquially described as anything from a dark olive drab greenish brown or brownish green sort of colour to a reddish brown. In addition to these colours, the idea seems to have taken root that there was a pale blue green colour used on the under surfaces of some aircraft such as Bf109s and Fw190s for which the term 'RLM84' has gained some currency. In more recent years, it appeared that the matter of the upper surface colours had been settled and that RLM81, RLM82 and RLM83 were re-issues of the earlier RLM61, RLM62 and RLM64 colours, which had been dropped in 1938. Evidence for this had come to light in the Czech Republic where a number of late war colour cards had come to light that were described by the late Ken Merrick on pages 123 and 124 of his Classic Publications book 'Luftwaffe Camouflage and Markings 1933 – 1945' Volume 1 (referred to as 'Merrick' hereafter). Then, in 2012, Luftwaffe camouflage researcher and author Michael Ullmann discovered a number of documents that originated with the Luftwaffe research establishment at Travermunde, which appear to call the re-issued colour interpretation of RLM81, RLM82 and RLM83 into question by suggesting, amongst other things, that RLM83 was actually shade of dark blue. This two part article seeks to bring much of the currently available information on this vexed subject together and to attempt to synthesize a new interpretation that accommodates both old and new information by drawing on the old saying that whilst there are two sides to every argument, the truth might lie somewhere in between. Whilst this article does draw on some material gathered during the author’s own research, the vast majority of the text is based upon the hard work of other people over many years such as; J. Richard Smith, John D. Gallaspy, Michael Ullmann and the late Ken Merrick"

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