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Posted by Ron Smith on February 12, 2025, 8:28:12, in reply to "Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So what is "medium grey"????"
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Hi Miles! I'm going to email you as it really makes no difference whether it was the 507A, 507B or a matt paint formulation of Home Fleet grey. Previous Message
Hi Dick,
I think it is understood that interpreting colour from black and white photo's is inherently problematic and subjective. The answer may lay in KGV and Rodney's log books if they still exist and list when in 1941 each respective ship was painted and what mix was used.
Does the AFO 3935 of October 1940 prohibit using up the remaining stock of 507B paint until exhausted both in the yard and stock onboard? Previous Message
The terms dark, medium and light are subjective. What you call medium I might regard as dark.
I have numerous photographs of KGV in 1941. In some cases I have photographs of her taken the very same day but from different angles or heights or from different sides. In the sets of photographs taken the very same day you might say she was in dark grey in one photograph, but medium grey or even light grey in another. And in some individual photographs the tone of her grey can vary from dark to medium or even light depending where you look on her. It is hopeless.
So far as the Royal Navy was concerned the WW2 era Home Fleet grey, whether of the 507A or 507B formulation, was "GREY, DARK, Home Fleet shade"
For paints they regarded as medium greys you need to go to paints with RFs in the region 20% to 25%, So the official mix for Mountbatten Pink, or MS3, or the emergency mix of 50/50 507A & 507C Previous Message Previous Message
507B was killed off by AFO 3935 of October 1940 which discontinued he use of enamel for the duration of the war. (It was reintroduced by AFO 5952 of Oct 1945.) Previous Message
thanks in advance
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