A query on Spad 7s' "yellow" camouflage

Tomasz · 22 October 2002, 02:35 AM

Hello all,

I would like to ask if there is an up-to-date consensus on the French "jaune" scheme carried on early and mid production Spad 7s. As far as I understand there were two versions of "light" Spad camouflages.

- One of them was rather simple: the all metal parts and undercarriage parts were painted chromate yellow (based on PbCrO4), while the all fabric surfaces were covered with unpigmented clear dope.

- Later on the metal parts were still painted with chromate yellow, but the fabric surfaces received aluminized chromate finish (58% of lead chromate + 42% of aluminum powder).

Is this information correct?

TIA

Tomasz

StephenLawson · 23 October 2002, 11:43 AM

Greetings all:

According to Alan Toelle, The information above is somewhat inaccurate. I have hooked up Tomasz & Alan and we'll get an update later.

Tomasz · 14 November 2002, 02:47 AM

Stephen,

sorry for the late reply. First of all thank you very much for hooking me with Alan. He is really a great researcher and a very kind man.

I am still discussing with him aspects of the Spad 7 camouflage. During the last twenty years Alan collected a lot of information on Spad 7 camouflage. He has found no proof of the "yellow scheme" application on Spads. Otherwise the existence of the beige/CDL Spads is extremely well documented.

In other words when I will be building my SH Spad VII model, I will stick to beige/CDL scheme.

Tomasz