mackem01 1,375 Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 I have read somewhere (forgotten where) that silver pre-war Walrus used a different colour dope on the fuselage that had a slight blue/green hue to it. Can anyone provide a little more info and perhaps a colour match?? T.I.A... Link to post Share on other sites
John Aero 3,261 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Purely conjecture, but I'm thinking that Silver dope wasn't the best paint for hulls and they were probably given a protective varnish coat. over the Silver. You can put varnish over dope but not the other way round. Shorts floats were often finished in a White Emailene (I think that's the spelling) waterproof varnish. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
dogsbody 9,426 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 I know that some ( maybe all ) pre-war Empire flyingboats had their hulls covered with a lanolin-based coating, to help seal the hulls from leakage. More information can be found here. Just type lanolin into the search space: http://theflyingboatforum.forumlaunch.net/index.php Chris 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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