Real Colors of WWII Aircraft

[Sergio Luis dos Santos]

Originally Posted by Maciej Góralczyk

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.

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

[Maciej Góralczyk]

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.

[Sergio Luis dos Santos]

Originally Posted by Maciej Góralczyk

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.

Ok.

[Dénes Bernád]

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

[MW Giles]

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

[Maciej Góralczyk]

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.

[MW Giles]

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