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Jonty

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Re: WW2 Royal Navy Walrus
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2007, 04:21:14 pm »

  Entirely from memory, I think that for a ship-based aircraft the upper surfaces should be in a disruptive pattern of Extra Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate Grey. These two colours are so dingy and alike in tone that they may look one colour in a b/w photo. The undersurfaces would be in Sky, a sort of duck egg green/blue.
  Walruses also operated, mainly land-based in North Africa, in the conventional RAF Dark Green/Dark Earth.
  As I noted in an earlier post, the proportions of the roundels and fin flash changed in about 1942.
  You can buy accurately matched colours from White Ensign Models.
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Re: WW2 Royal Navy Walrus
« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2007, 07:13:45 pm »


Many thanks for the info.

Regards, Bernard2
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Re: WW2 Royal Navy Walrus
« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2007, 09:51:47 pm »

1937  Sea Gladiator for example.
 
http://www.jpsmodell.de/dc/draw/faa_gladi_sea1a.jpg

There are several shemes, Day or night, sea or landbased, own planes or lend-lease planes, tropical sheme...  and it depends on the year.

I have a FAA F-6F Hellcat here, painted in sea based sheme, must be somewhere around d-day because it has the d-day stripes. She was based on the HMS Emperor.



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Re: WW2 Royal Navy Walrus
« Reply #28 on: June 12, 2007, 10:09:59 pm »

Another source of aircraft colours is Exrtacolour. These are available from Hannants in Lowestoft or from thier shop near Hendon (0208 205 6697).

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