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This one is well open to debate, and gives the chance for a bit of freedom to do what you want. I am not a total rivet counter, I just want my models to look good, and by being able to freestyle it a bit with some colours makes it more enjoyable to me.
Yep, agreed, having found that 65 and 04 give a good "Sky" I'm sort of convinced, and it makes sense. 65 was still used on bombers but no longer on fighters, so there may have been excess about. 04 was an ident colour which wasn't used very much at the time. Sky worked for the RAF and, if used on the sides of fuselages, in combination with other camo, would help to camouflage the aircraft on the ground, because of it's green hue, but still give a degree of air camouflage because of the blue dirivative. If you see what I mean?
Thanks Eetu,
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I remember reading an article about this RLM84 thing as well, and it was speculated that perhaps it wasn't a separate color, but late-war RLM76. Due to material shortages, the amount of color pigments had to be cut down, resulting in the zinc chromate (or whatever it was, can't remember. Yellowish stuff anyway) included for corrosion prevention showing more prominently.
Yes, this is possibly a more plausable explanation, but begs the question was it the only colour to suffer from lack of pigment, if true? If bombers were still using RLM 65 why didn't fighters switch back to that colour, or why not mix one of the upper surface greys with white? You could go on and on, but nobody really knows, but again, I have my answer
So here are the results of my colour mixing
Just like my tests, 2 parts RLM 65 (Hellblau) to 1 part RLM 04 (Gelb). I did add a little white but it isn't noticeable. I was slightly wrong, in that it isn't possible to match RAF Sky, bang on, although it is very close but a little greener. The beauty is that it doesn't look contrived and, because it is mixed from standard colours, it is therefore believable. I'm very pleased with it and the next stage is to try the same thing with Colourcoats as this was mixed using Xtracolor.
Only the fuselage and tail planes received the "RLM84" mix the wings will be natural metal with RLM 75 leading edges. That is apart from the flaps, RLM 84 and the ailerons and wing tips, RLM 76, as are the drop tank pylon and drop tank.
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