[harrison987]

RLM84 did not exist..technically.

"RLM84" was not on the master RLM list, so 20 years ago this "new found colour" was given the RLM84 designation. It is not an offical designation.

I suspect it was a new paint the Luftwaffe was experimenting with late in the war...or possibly the original paint supplier changed something in thier pigmentation.

There is much documentation of paint types being sprayed too thin, mixed too thin, too dark, too light, etc., and many intances of paint not being sprayed at all.

Usually this was done as the paint was not readily available from the manufacture so late in the war, and quality was not nearly as good either.

Paint manufactures were in the same situation as the aircraft factories, so I suspect they made what they could.

If i was an "official" new colour it would have been on the master RLM list, no? The German's were sticklers for documentation...