RLM colours please.

[markjsheppard]

Hi all - interesting thread.

Without getting joining in a slagging match, these are the finished colours applied to the Fw190 A-5/U3 1227 White A of 4./JG54 lost on the 19th July 1943.

The original factory colours were 74/75/76 as of April 1943.

It was repainted possibly Jever before deployment but more likely at Siverskaja where she was based in the summer of 1943.

The JG54 field colours here consist of a sand colour, a brown violet colour and a dark green colour. I will let everyone else discuss whether it was an RLM code or not. Ken Merrick is the expert so I will go along with his assessment. These were protected areas of paint and had hardly an UV degradation or weathering.

The colours were spectroanalysed by Glaserit in 1995 though currently they have not been checked to see if they match a unblemished RLM paint swatch.

From photos we know the JG54 operated different 2/3 colour combinations of greens and browns. I think these photos shows this Fw190 carried a irresputable segmented three colours combination though the green is missing from these two photos.

Hopefully 1227 will shortly be painted in the three colour recorded at the time and when complete she will be a beautiful girl (Please no discussions on the rights or wrongs of the restoration. This has been covered elsewhere).

regards

Mark