Modern Luftwaffe paint set vol.1

Four regulations, one lineup

The postwar Luftwaffe governed the finishes of its machines by regulations which were given brief designations after the year of their introduction. Four successive systems arose in this way and this palette covers all of them, including the special variant for naval aviation.

The underside, the upper surfaces and the warning markings

The lower surfaces are dealt with by a trio of tones: silver gray RAL 7001, white aluminum RAL 9006 and light gray RAL 7035. Each of them belongs to a different regulation and to a different group of types, from the Fiat G.91 and F-84 machines through reconnaissance and fighter twin-engine aircraft to the Panavia Tornado and the Sea Lynx helicopters. The upper surfaces carry basalt gray RAL 7012 and yellow olive RAL 6014, which hold across all the regulations. They are complemented by luminous orange RAL 2005 for the warning markings.

• Three shades of the lower surfaces, each for a different regulation
• A pair for the upper surfaces valid across all four systems
• A luminous orange for clearly visible identification markings
• The aluminum tone of the first jet machines in natural metal
• The light gray of the lower surfaces of the wings of the same aircraft

The era of natural metal

The last two items belong to the oldest stage. Before camouflage was introduced at all, the first postwar machines flew in bare metal and the lower surfaces of the wings received only a light gray to FS16515. The lineup therefore reaches from the fifties to today's combat aircraft and suits the building of a whole line of development side by side.