Real Colors of WWII Aircraft
 

My latest completion - please check the link below for description and sample pages:
https://ak-interactive.com/product/r...wwii-aircraft/

I would like to thank all researchers and photo collectors, some of whom are members of this board, who helped in making this book: Franck Benoiton, Dénes Bérnad, Craig Busby, Dino Cerutti, Boris Ciglić, Alex Crawford, James V. Crow, Dani Egger, Søren Flensted, Chris Goss, Brett Green, Robert Gretzyngier, Marc-André Haldimann, Thomas Hesse, Bjarne V. Jansen, Adam Jarski, Phil Listemann, Dan Manthos, Georg Morrison, Mikael Olrog, Robert Pęczkowski, Tomas Prusa, Harald Rabeder, Sergio Luis dos Santos, Sinisa Sestanovic, Brian Spurr, Paul Stipdonk, Akira Takiguchi, Massimo Tessitori, Chris Thomas, John Vasco, David Weiss, and particularly my great friend Erik Mombeeck.

Best regards,
Maciej

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Congrats Maciej!

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Well done Maciej !
We all are eager to read the book ... and ready for future comments. :)
Best regards,
Franck.

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Good work. :-)

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Congratulations. Now, perhaps, maybe it will be possible to find out if a certain RLM color did, in fact, exist.




Ed :)

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Hi,
Can you tell me why Japan was left out. Surely it was one of the main players.


Doug

Re: Real Colors of WWII Aircraft
 

Thank you Gentlemen!

Doug, the aircraft book follows the format of the earlier armour book, which also discussed German, U.S., British and Soviet colours. Please be aware that the main customer base of the publisher are modellers (the books are followed by specific paint ranges released together with them), and Japanese subjects unfortunately have quite low position on this market.

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Then the book losses a potential market in Japan... and from other modellers around the world with real interest in Japanese aviation.

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There is quite a number of Japanese publications on the subject, which are rather more accessible to the locals than books published in English. Regarding other countries - the interest of the market in this subject isn't substantial enough, we can assess this judging by the sales of related products, f.e. paints for Japanese aircraft models.

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Yes.

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Ok.

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I have ordered it a few days ago. I am eagerly waiting for its arrival!

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One question please, in the blurb about the book it states "Included is the latest information on the Luftwaffe’s late war colors, which have been reproduced as scale colors on the basis of the original paint factory recipes by Gerald T. Högl and Jürgen Kiroff."

Are the colours in the book as per the factory spec (whatever that means 70 odd years later) or has someone played about with them by adding random quantities of white to lighten the colour, as per the nebulous scale colour theory?

You can probably tell that I am not a great believer in scale colour.


Martin

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The book includes a sub-chapter on the scale colour theory (which is not just adding a little white) which explains how this was done.

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Therefore are the colours in the book true, or have they all been adulterated in some undefined way?

Or are the colours in the book true and it is only the paints, if I were to buy them, modified according to scale colour theory?

Martin

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The German colours are altered to the scale colour theory, based on the calculations made from the l*a*b* values of the original colours. Reproductions of the colour cards added to L.Dv. 521/1 (both 1938 and 1941 edition) are also included, along with a photo of RLM 83 recipe and colour card made on the basis of this recipe, using the same components. The process of reproducing the late war colours was very time-consuming and troublesome, as many of the components are now banned from industrial use in EU.

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Thank you for taking the time to explain. Good luck with the book

Martin

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Available now.

http://www.christian-schmidt.com/pro...ducts_id=10419

Ed