[WWI] Albatros paint question.

[Shane Weier]

Mark says

>The speculation on RLM 02 was talked over on this board about 6 years ago,
>and has since taken on a life of its own.  Now you will see posts on
>Hyperscale or reviews on Modeling Madness where it is taken as gospel
>truth.  It is really just a speculation that makes sense, but is not
>proven.  Make your own choice and dare anyone to offer proof that you are
>not right.

I think it was even further back, perhaps as long ago as 8 years.

To my shame, I believe that I'm the progenitor. When discussing different 
Albatrosses,  Fokker(OAW), and Fokker(Alb) I offered RLM02 as an 
interpretation of grey-green reportedly used on OAW aircraft on the grounds 
that it may have persisted into the RLM range of colours after WW1

Sadly, the idea that it was just a *guess* was later left out of build 
articles quoting the colour and word of mouth has made it an item of 
"received knowledge"

FWIW it's still a good guess for aircraft with grey-green metalwork, but I'm 
absolutely sure I've never seen any *evidence* that it's accurate.

Shane (who has seen the layers of paint slowly stripped back from the Albie 
D.Va in Canberra, and is quite confident that the bottom layer is much 
greener on that exemplar at least)

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