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As I understand, RLM83 was never previously linked to a particular colour , colour name, or painting diagram - all known Wartime painting diagrams refer to RLM81/82 (usually over RLM76), and we can be pretty confident that RLM81 was manufactured in both a 'Brown Variant' (as I beleive Japo has uncovered an original pot of, a few years back from a barn in Czechia?), and a 'Green Variant', giving rise to some of the confusion. With the lack of a definitive answer about these two variants, and a colour that remains undescribed, it was logical to come to the conclusion that 'undescribed colour = undescribed number'.

Ullmann appears to have linked (by document) RLM83 to a Maritime Blue colour.

Thus we seem to have to consider something like:

RLM81b - Braunviolet
RLM81g - Dunkelgrün
RLM82 - Hellgrün
RLM83g - Dunkelgrün
RLM83m - Marinelblau

... and to include the other 'unknown colour':

RLM84* - Blaugrün (which I think is more than likely just a variant of RLM76 - which I like to call RLM76g)

Personally I see no problem - we are always uncovering new information, and the simple numeric RLM designation does not change our understanding of the colour...all it does is mean we need to refine our vocabulary around the colour.

If you're modelling a 1944 Cottbus Fw 190D-9, you're still going to paint it with Lichtblau lowers, with Dunkelgrün and Hellgrün uppers - because that is what we know to be accurate. It doesn't matter so much if we call the colours RLM76 plus RLM81/82 or RLM82/83 or RLM81g/RLM82, as long as we're clear about things.

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