Whither 112 and RAF markings.

Humbrol 112 was the best colour to my BS.33 & 633 samples when I first wrote about it. As the colour was not then a priority colour then H112 was very close for a 1/76 model. My 77+ 67 mix was a next best. But recently when trying a serious reformulation I discovered that 77 is made with Prussian blue that has a green element which cannot be eradicated. Humbrol habitually alter their formulation and I suspect 77 in this case too. The only blue in the whole of Humbrol and Revell range that did not have a green element is 14 and that worked with 32 but the white needed reducing with some black. Satin overcoat is recommended on a model since using H85 s/g will render the resulting colour too glossy. Finding a lighter colour on various parts of actual vehicles is no surprise since they needed a comparative undercoat before assembly and final painting.

Another point that I discovered is that the RAF did not start carrying the right front roundel until May 1941, probably because even by then as some vehicles were using army type camouflage colours, civil amd military police could not distinguish between them. Before May 1941 RAF vehicles carried a paper sticker in the front lower left corner of the windscreen with the letters 'RAF' thereon. Whether white on black or the reverse as yet I do not know, perhaps either would do.