Hi Mick,
Thanks for your response. In my country a lot of original material has been lost during and after the war. Simply because the Germans were not interested. And after the war, because people had plenty of other things to worry about. Pre-war Dutch aircraft were painted in a 3 colour scheme. There are currently more different theories about these colours and more different "authentic" examples than the Dutch had aircraft in 1940.
To summarise the story, the paint was license made British aviation paint (Titanine), from a factory (Titanine Ltd.) which used their own colours standard. As the Dutch committee did not agree with one specific colour, these colours were changed ("warmer" no further description). The factory where this paint was made still exists and can be found roughly 5 kilometres from where I live. As there is so much guessing and nonsense told about these paints I was intrigued and decided to dive into the world of colour charts, standards, etc., I even visited the factory and the hall where the original paint was produced. Just to find out that nobody really knows and all documentation is lost. Too many bring their wild guessing as the absolute truth. And people who claim that imitation British paint from 1937 meets a US standard from 1956, which was too often changed to count since, should really start to read.....
As history in the US (and most probably the UK as well) is less broken, there will be more original material. But even than you could wonder whether people really worried about the exact colour shade when the war industry was running at full speed. Olive green is olive green, but not all olives are equally green......
Now I will quickly step down from my soap box
Cheers,
Huub
PS And you comments about the decals are very recognisable!
Thanks for your response. In my country a lot of original material has been lost during and after the war. Simply because the Germans were not interested. And after the war, because people had plenty of other things to worry about. Pre-war Dutch aircraft were painted in a 3 colour scheme. There are currently more different theories about these colours and more different "authentic" examples than the Dutch had aircraft in 1940.
To summarise the story, the paint was license made British aviation paint (Titanine), from a factory (Titanine Ltd.) which used their own colours standard. As the Dutch committee did not agree with one specific colour, these colours were changed ("warmer" no further description). The factory where this paint was made still exists and can be found roughly 5 kilometres from where I live. As there is so much guessing and nonsense told about these paints I was intrigued and decided to dive into the world of colour charts, standards, etc., I even visited the factory and the hall where the original paint was produced. Just to find out that nobody really knows and all documentation is lost. Too many bring their wild guessing as the absolute truth. And people who claim that imitation British paint from 1937 meets a US standard from 1956, which was too often changed to count since, should really start to read.....
As history in the US (and most probably the UK as well) is less broken, there will be more original material. But even than you could wonder whether people really worried about the exact colour shade when the war industry was running at full speed. Olive green is olive green, but not all olives are equally green......
Now I will quickly step down from my soap box
Cheers,
Huub
PS And you comments about the decals are very recognisable!
