Luftwaffe paints

[Mgawa]

Hope this could be of interest:

http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com/luft ... eries.html

[Django]

Quite amazing. Shame there are no pics of the actual "paint", just the can.

[Mgawa]

The paint from this can will be prepared and used as paint chips in the volume 3 of the book about Fw190D. I would like to see chips too

[JägerMarty]

That's an amazing find and is gonna get a lot of people around the world interested. Would be interesting to get Ken Merrick, Jerry Crandel and Michael Ulmann's opinions too.
Look forward to hearing/seeing more of this find

[Broken-Wrench]

monogram books has already done that but the book is out of print.. You have to watch Ebay to find a used copy..Monogram books have paint chips that you can take down to PPG and they can copy. They even tell you how they were painted. Example of below.

http://img523.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 111xz1.jpg

[Steve Nelson]

Oh brother..just what we need, another excuse to revive the Great Luftwaffe Color Wars. I thought we had progressed to arguing about Pearl Harbor Attacker colors.

Seriously, though..it's cool to see a find like this. It's always great to discover genuine "source material." Not sure how useful it is though..I'm sure actual paint colors varied widely from the official standard (especially in the chaos of the last year of the war) and who knows what 60+ years of chemical changes have done to the original pigments.

SN

[lmritger]

Not sure how useful it is though..I'm sure actual paint colors varied widely from the official standard (especially in the chaos of the last year of the war) and who knows what 60+ years of chemical changes have done to the original pigments.

That's an excellent point, although one better suited for a chemist rather than a historian or researcher! Jerry Crandall is a dear friend, and I had the good fortune to meet Michael Ullmann at Telford in 2005, where we had a wonderful conversation on the topic of Luftwaffe colors; I feel both gentlemen will be very interested to see the results of this find, and I also suspect this find will only add to the body of knowledge out there, rather than replacing what has gone before. I am very much looking forward to this, and welcome any new info from the JaPo team- they've done absolutely first-rate research on their 109 books, so their stuff is an automatic "must-have" for me.

Lynn

[Broken-Wrench]

That paint has probably frozen and thawed so many time it's probably jsut goo.

[DoraNineFan]

It's too bad they didn't find a can of late-war "RLM 84" so everyone can stop arguing about it.