NA/PRO memo on which colour mid stone replaced

[brewerjerry]

Hi

Found this on my hard drive, from an old visit to the PRO,

I cant remember if I or anyone else had posted it here, but I do remember some sort of thread here on BM

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129042181@N07/26910259981/in/dateposted-public/

seems from reading the memo there was an error which needed correcting as to which colour should be replaced by mid stone.

So it seems some a/c could have had ' mid stone & dark green ' as camo colours, whilst the ' incorrect ' addendum had been issued

cheers

Jerry

Edited May 13, 2016 by brewerjerry

[Black Knight]

I suppose that was what lead the scheme to be nick-named 'sand and spinach'

[Mark Mackenzie]

On 5/13/2016 at 9:14 AM, brewerjerry said:

Hi

Found this on my hard drive, from an old visit to the PRO,

I cant remember if I or anyone else had posted it here, but I do remember some sort of thread here on BM

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129042181@N07/26910259981/in/dateposted-public/

seems from reading the memo there was an error which needed correcting as to which colour should be replaced by mid stone.

So it seems some a/c could have had ' mid stone & dark green ' as camo colours, whilst the ' incorrect ' addendum had been issued

cheers

Jerry

 

Edited January 5, 2020 by Mark Mackenzie

[Mark Mackenzie]

n/m

Edited May 13, 2016 by Mark Mackenzie

[brewerjerry]

I posted it here several years ago. At the time AMO 513 (which corresponds to this Tech. Circ.) was being quoted as evidence of a Dark Green/Midstone scheme - Tropical Land Scheme. I posted it here because I wanted to prove that this AMO was a typo error. However since then, it has been used (as you have done) to claim that some aircraft must have been painted in the wrong colours. I would point out that the AMO was queried by the Maintenance Air Group responsible for aircraft deliveries within days of it being issued and the correct colours were reinstated at this time.

There are also other errors in the AMOs and Correspondence, including one that mixes up Medium Sea Grey with Medium Sea Green and another where the camouflage of Hurricanes is Grey and Brown but these attract far less attention.

Hi

So at least it has been discussed

I came across my old na - pro files,

the libs of 1425 flt with azure blue undersides, flying UK to Gib was interesting in the camo stuff I photo'd

I must browse my files sometime, I forgot which ones I had photo'd when I was last there .

cheers

jerry

[malpaso]

I suppose that was what lead the scheme to be nick-named 'sand and spinach'

Sand and Spinach seems to have been early nick-name for DE/DG, it appears in early war modelling books (I mean published during the early war, not about it).