RN WW2 "western approaches" colours?

Western Approaches colors are actually quite simple...

Western Approaches Blue is a sky blue...and Western Approaches Green is a pastel green color...the other color is white...

The best way I can describe it...if you have the paint program within Windows...open it, click on edit colors, and punch in the following numbers...

Red - 194
Green - 223
Blue - 228

With a Hue of 126, a saturation of 93, and a luminosity of 199. That will get you close and give you rough idea...another option, Luftwaffe RLM 76 is pretty close. The Munsell Code is 5B/5/2


For WA green, try the following:

Red - 111
Green - 200
Blue - 139

Hue of 93, saturation of 128, and a luminosity of 146. Munsell Code is 5G/7/6

Now, obviously, your monitor will display colors differently than mine...so it's subjective at best. However, my monitor has a pretty good color balance (desktop publishing variety) so I'm confident that these colors are really close. Hope that helps.

Jeff

I have a chart for WW II RN colours using Humbrol paints that I got from a book called
Canada's Flowers History of the Corvettes of Canada
Flat White # 34
WA Blue 15 drops #25 added to a tin of #34
WA Green #90

If you can find this book it has a section on painting models, worth a look

Hi Anthony,

We have the RN's Western Approaches colours accurately matched in our Colourcoats enamels:

RN 08, Western Approaches Blue;
RN 09, Western Approaches Green;
RN 10, RN White.

WA Blue was NOT sky blue--it was far more pale; and the white that the RN used in the WA schemes was not a pure white, it was a warm off-white.

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Cheers,
John Snyder
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