This is exactly what it says,a bit of fun. I am not a colour police man! Given the vagaries of my photography and both your and my monitors this is all thoroughly unscientific,exactly how I like it.
My discovery of an old tinlet of Humbrol175,allegedly a match for RLM76 has prompted this comparison.
I painted out three versions of RLM76. One from White ensign,one from Xtracrylix and finally my new found tin of Humbrol over a grey primer on an old mushroom box. I've photographed the results with a few well respected reference chips from Merrick and Ullmann.
Merrick gives two variations on the colour for our comparison.
In the piccy and to the eye the white Ensign enamel is the only one close. You'd need to lighten the other two quite a bit.
Ullmann gives three variations. This is the standard one.
White Ensign again for me but the Humbrol is in the ball park.
These are his variations.
Again White Ensign has his 76b but it's a toss up between the other two for the 76a. Oddly I think his 76a is an approximation of the late war colour,sometimes described as similar to british Sky,which some experts consider a different colour,the mythical RLM84.
After all this you can slap any of these on your model and it will look fine,particularly if,as I do,you lighten them with a bit of white.
Cheers
Steve
My discovery of an old tinlet of Humbrol175,allegedly a match for RLM76 has prompted this comparison.
I painted out three versions of RLM76. One from White ensign,one from Xtracrylix and finally my new found tin of Humbrol over a grey primer on an old mushroom box. I've photographed the results with a few well respected reference chips from Merrick and Ullmann.
Merrick gives two variations on the colour for our comparison.
In the piccy and to the eye the white Ensign enamel is the only one close. You'd need to lighten the other two quite a bit.
Ullmann gives three variations. This is the standard one.
White Ensign again for me but the Humbrol is in the ball park.
These are his variations.
Again White Ensign has his 76b but it's a toss up between the other two for the 76a. Oddly I think his 76a is an approximation of the late war colour,sometimes described as similar to british Sky,which some experts consider a different colour,the mythical RLM84.
After all this you can slap any of these on your model and it will look fine,particularly if,as I do,you lighten them with a bit of white.
Cheers
Steve
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