A new reconnoisance projekt - camera colour?

[johnie hopper]

Hello, starting my new project can't find what colour have RLM used for luftwaffe cameras (as in the next image)? Could someone help me (it looks like some kind of creme)?

and here results of my effort:

 

 

[pvanroy]

In most cases, no exact RLM color was specified for equipment that was fully internally housed and not visible from the outside, like cameras, etc. - these things were coded "RLM 99", meaning they needed to have some kind of protective paint cover, but the actual color was irrelevant. As a result, manufacturers of these items just painted them in regular industrial colors - usually some kind of gray or black. You can see the same thing on e.g. Patin gyro-compasses: they are generally some light gray color, but it does not match any RLM standard; I suppose some of these industrial coatings could be matched to RAL standard, but I'm not sure of that.

Edited June 9, 2023 by pvanroy

[Lee in Texas]

Nice effort. What plane is that? 

[johnie hopper]

Thanks a lot. I decided to use RAL 9001.

Project is Bf-110 C-5 in RAF service.

[fab]

You re right.

 

Fab

[Shawn M]

I've seen them black as well leading to the top color being variable

[johnie hopper]

Please, could anyone help me to recognize higlighted device. I think that after crashland on to belly, the original circular antenne of FuG10 was destroyed and RAF substituted it with some other device with similar function.

 

 

 

[MikeMaben]

It 'was' a direction finder. After capture , some a/c cooperated with the RAF Film Production Unit.

Looks more like a camera. 

[johnie hopper]

Thanks, is there any specification, ID number, or better pic? I can't find any similar.

[MikeMaben]

They were mostly Cs and Ds ...

[johnie hopper]

On 10/8/2023 at 5:37 AM, MikeMaben said:

They were mostly Cs and Ds ...

It looks that it could be one of these two.

Is it possible (cannibalized from another captured Luftwaffe machine)? 

 

Eventually this one:

 

Edited November 20, 2023 by johnie hopper

[johnie hopper]

One more question: Did RAF apply any labels and marks in english on RAF camouflaged captured planes (except roundels, letters or assigned serial number)? Are there any proofs?

[thierry laurent]

Yes. This was done on the cockpit instrument panels. Black Labels with white lettering describing the instrument function were commonly added above each one. However, even in large scale I doubt this would be really visible. Externally, I'm not remembering having seen any technical stencil in English (including warning ones). If they were actually added here and there, they were not that visible.

[johnie hopper]

You can find the result here:

 

[D.B. Andrus]

If the cameras were like compasses then they were painted with RAL colors not RLM.