Well guys, finally. I pryed myself away from the armor fellows on Armorama and got you guys out a Luftwaffe Paint set.

The set consists of the following colors in one ounce/29ML bottles:

Rlm 79 Sand Gelb
Rlm 80 Olive Grun
Rlm 76 Lichtblau
Rlm 70 Schwartzgrun
Rlm 71 Dunkel grun
rlm 74 grau grun






Thanks to all that helped me develop the colors!

Here's the link folks!

Aircraft colors

Great News!

I have a couple of ideas for some more colours...

Hinomaru Red
Dull Red and Blue and (Trainer) Yellow for British Roundels

Hey David,

Thanks for the suggetions. I will start looking into these. I want to do a WW2 Allied set next with about 5-6 colors. Any suggestions?

I am thinking something along these lines:

US Olive Drab
Bright Aluminum

Which leads me to another question I have been wanting to ask you folks. What do you use to simulate bare aluminum?

Do you guys think a bright aluminum acrylic paint would be a good idea?

Hi Brian

For Allied colours I would suggest U.S. Olive Drab, U.S. Neutral Gray, RAF Dark Earth, RAF Dark Green and RAF Sky.

As for bare Aluminium I normally use various shades of Alclad II.

Some other paint sets to consider in the future may be Russian and Japanese sets?

Hope this helps

Hi Brian

maybe you should rather do logical packages that fit camo schemes:

70/71/65/02 (early fighter and bomber scheme)

72/73/65 (maritime bomber/ observer)

74/75/76 (dayfighter schemes, you could also add 02 for blotches or 66 for the cockpit)

78/79/80 (desert camo)

just my 2 ct

all the best

Steffen

Thanks for the input Steffan,

Looks like I have a few more to come up with..

65
72
73
75
78

Brian, if it were me I'd do up a USAAC set like this.

USAAC set
USAAC Olive Drab
USAAC Neutral Gray
Zinc Chromate (yellow)
Zinc Chromate (green)

Then a RAF set
RAF Dark Earth
RAF Dark Green
RAF Sky
RAF interior green

And a Metallic set
Bright Aluminum
Medium Aluminum
Cast Aluminum
Steel
Brass
and if your up to a challenge a chrome silver that would match the old Pactra chrome silver.

Also a RLM 02 Grau might be a good idea.

Maybe follow up with a US navy aircraft set.

A metallic set would also apply across the board, regardless of your field of interest.

I like Steffen's logical list of RLM colours,though I notice he steered clear of the somewhat controversial late war RLM80s series of colours!!
As for the British surely Medium Sea Grey and Ocean Grey would be sensible additions as fighters (and some other aircraft as anyone building the big Mossie will know) used them,along with Dark Green, in their camouflage scheme for more than half of the war.
Steve