Revell german WW2 planes paint scheme

Reich Luftfahrts Ministerium, the German control authority for flying things. Gunze Sangyo, Model Master and Polly Scale all have RLM colors right from the bottle and between them all RLM colors are available.

Give us the RLM numbers and we can tell you who makes it.

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Hello Norman:

best thing to do is pick up aircraft books, and also to look at pics of the real planes, there is alot of these planes in museums, and they usually have good pics, as for the colors, I can recommend a website that has a lot of info

check them out

take care and happy modeling

George

Why do you have to paint the scheme called for in the instructions? With the variations in actual colors in real life, I don't think there's an "exactly perfect" color around anyway. It's no sin to paint the kit another scheme than what the instructions call for.

RLM numbers are the Reichs Luftfarts Ministerium numbers i.e. german standards. Model Master, Gunze and X-Tracolor carries these colors in their lines. Several companies also makes charts that compares these colors from different brands. Some even on the net IPMS Stockholm if I remember correctly

I'm beginning to think that Humbrol is going the way of making you buy a group of their paints to mix and match. They've discontinued many colours in the past decade that are frequently used for WWII and put out an expensive binder with mixing charts. I love Humbrol's but they're driving me to ModelMaster.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

FWIW If enough people follow that lead, Humbrol will get the message and re introduce the colors.

Bill Shuey