Thanks for the last three replies.
True enough re the lighting. My artist has demonstrated this by adding a trace of red or blue to the colours and then turning the images into black and white. The colour bands then reverse completely – what was darker is now lighter! So if one takes into account paint variations, lighting, film type etc, interpretation becomes very challenging. And of course these are camouflage colours so it makes sense they would tend to be ambiguous.
The AMOs are:
– For the period 1940/41. Upper Surfaces – Temperate Sea Scheme consisting of Dark Grey and Extra Dark Sea Grey. AMO A.926/40 to AMO A.687/41
– For the period 1942/43. Upper Surfaces – Temperate Sea Scheme consisting of Dark Slate Grey and Extra Dark Sea Grey. AMO A.664/42 to AMO A.1246/43.
– For the period 1944/45. Upper Surfaces – Extra Dark Sea Grey. AMO A864/44 to A.P.2656A
Colour photos would of course be ideal. Have only come across two so far: FK186 ‘S’ over Benbecula and FL462 ‘W’ in the Azores, invariably incorrectly identified as being at Benbecula. Also have one of FL461 in PNG but this was US-applied paint, another complicating factor. Does anyone have another….?
Many thanks for the thread. Will follow up on the Warpaint series.
Kind regards:
Robert