Here we have an example of the yellow zinc cromate.
Olive drab
The piece still needs some more cleaning up.Note how the paint has been applied directly onto the metal.
My particular favourite.
A section with Neutral Grey as the background colour. Part of blue "star and bar" marking on the right hand side. Notice how the blue has been painted over the red border.( which was adopted in mid 1943). Paint chipping on the blue bordered star and bar would infact reveal red paint underneath, then the base colour before the natural metal, as can be seen in this picture.
These examples are from a P47 which crashed in early 1944, and were dug up a couple of weeks ago while metal detecting at the crash site.
Nige
