Recently went aon a trip to Fla.
On the way home I popped into the
Mighty Eighth Airforce Museum While overall dissapointed with it I did notice something I'd thought before but couldnt quite place my finger on it
The Grays usually used in many of the German planes in models,pictures and on skins here seem to be off.
Particularly with the 109s.
I saw two seperate examples of this while there one was on the full sized 109 they have hanging and more importantly, the other are from sections they have on display of peices of a 109 skin that was shot down during the war.
To my eye it does not appear that any further touching up or painting of the peices of skin were done which leads me to beleive this was the original paintjob which leads to my point.
The Gray in both cases seems to be not a true gray but more like a greenishblueish almost turqoise gray and not at all like the color gray we normally see used, Or even in photographs.
Odd thing is its almost like camera pictures dont pick up that particular color correctly as I've seen pictures of planes Ive seen personally and the color is wrong in the picture.
Used to think it was just me not remembering it correctly but now I know it isnt.
anyone else notice this?
