[tonyeh]

Thanks for the replies lads.

Pilot......I am more interested in understanding if there was actually a real discrepency, rather than a modeling project. So its more an info hunt rather than a modeling question. Although, I am building a P-38 at the moment.

Graham.....Cheers on the info on late war Med sea grey undersides of 8th AF aircraft. I have to admit I didn't know they did that. I wonder if the practice was widespread. Although I would be very careful in judging OD from photo's. OD had a tendency to fade very quickly in even temperate climates.

If you're correct about the USAAF being more relaxed to their mixing standards, then that does throw up a problem and would explain the differences in hue, that I've noticed.

Although I don't think I am mistaking an RAF sky blue for a neutral gray. I've noticed it in too many aircraft (sometimes from the same unit) from too many periods in the war and on various aircraft too from P-47's to B-17's.

Tony