Dear John & Dicky,
Thankyou very much for your Posts, and I reply in order. Firstly though, the trouble is there seems to have been no hard and fast rule with colour schemes, though obviously the area of operations did sometimes require certain changes. I have a p.graph of a RN Walrus at a museum, but the trouble is it shows an all black tail fin (not the tail wings), and something tells me this isn't quite right. There are plenty of b&w p.graphs of course, but these are not of much help one way and another due to shading and silhouette 'problems', so, to date, I have completed this 1:96 aircraft following the museum example of a grass green/mud colours... however, I am not happy with the black tail fin! - it simply does not look right... at least for an HMS Belfast anyway.
John, your offer is much appreciated. However, assuming that your p.graph shows a similar tail fin camouflage 'continuation', I think Dicky's picture answers the question. I am not going to change the colours already used (grass green/mud), as they look good and were a gnrl. colour, it's just that I was/am not happy with the black tail fin idea from the museum example - it just didn't look right! - partic. on a navy plane.
Dicky, thankyou very much for your ill., it does seem to answer my question very well, and the gnrl. colours nearly match what I have used. I don't think there is/was any hard and fast rule, these planes were painted in what was available and there was not necessarily complete continuity of things like paint supply during wartime - things were done as near as possible rather than following precise shade charts I should imagine! I will now change the black tail to match the tail in your ill.. It looks like a painting, am I right?
Again, thankyou both very much for taking the trouble to reply. Much appreciated.
Regards, Bernard2
p.s. The Belfast project comes on well, and with a bit of luck a couple more months will see her 90% completed.
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