Real Colors of WWII Aircraft

[Maciej Góralczyk]

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

[Sergio Luis dos Santos]

Congrats Maciej!

[ouidjat]

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

[Falcon]

Good work. :-)

[edwest2]

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




Ed

[Doug Norrie]

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


Doug

[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.

[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.

[ouidjat]

Originally Posted by edwest2

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

Yes.