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Hi chaps. I'm familiar with alclad paints, and have used a few of them before. I'm currently building a gloster meteor and am going to finish it in high speed silver. I know the colour is open to debate, and to my surprise when searching, found alclad produce this colour paint in their excellent range which I wasn't aware of. I've purchased two bottles. Now I know some of the colours require a specific colour primer underneath them, so I thought I'd check their website. Now this is where my problems started. I can't get onto the alclad uk website.. http://www.alclad2-online.co.uk this is the site on the back of the bottle, which I've not come across before. This is the normal website I use, https://alclad2.com, but they don't list any of the new colours. Does anyone know if it requires a specific coloured primer under it? Thanks for looking. Matt
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Hello everybody! Just another question I would like to discuss with you: Why were so few RAF aircraft finished in Natural Metal? When camouflage became unfashionable in the 1950s and 1960s, many air forces left their aircraft unpainted. Certainly, there was also a lot of "silver" in the RAF, but in most cases this was High Speed Silver. Obviously, natural "metal" Mosquitos or Vampires would have been difficult. Nevertheless, even the Hunter T.7 (strangely single-seat Hunters were almost always camouflaged, even though contemporary French or US fighters were not), Meteors, Canberras etc were rarely seen "naked", but almost always painted silver. The only British aircraft, I can think of, that was NMF for a great part of its career is the Lightning. What was the reason for this? Fear of corrosion due to the British weather or more corrosion-prone aluminium alloys used?
