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That's great! For some reason it looks absolutely right on the P-40. What might have been if the USAAF and USN had spent less time fighting one another and more fighting the enemy :smiling3:

If you can find a copy of David Newbold's thesis 'British Planning and Preparations to Resist Invasion on Land - September 1939-September 1940' it has sections on the LDV/Home Guard which supports this. They were determined and, eventually, well trained and reasonably armed. When the regular...

I now at least one person who fits the bill :) That's a good guide to that pattern, posted by Chris, the colours are definitely open to interpretation.

There were some other 'deceptive' schemes applied to various aircraft, from a simple 'fake' perspex nose to hide the fact that the aircraft was a heavily armed version with a 'solid' nose to fake nacelles etc. How effective that was is anyone's guess. I'm sure I've seen a picture of a modern...

Go for it Ron! Here's a shameless plug for the F2A in another exotic McClelland Barclay scheme. As far as I know nobody is sure of the colours, though I've seen White, Black, Mid-Grey, Dark Grey, Sea Green, Blue and Silver Grey listed. I've never really researched these schemes, so have no...

They tried some of those on aircraft too! The Americans were quite keen on it for a while. This 'Vindicator' sports one of the McClelland Barclay experimental schemes. If you Google "McClelland Barclay camouflage" all sorts of his schemes will turn up on various aircraft. Fortunately for us...

Me too, just with less originality....WOW! The black and white versions look like they were taken in 1940, which pretty much sums it up.

They were exactly specified. That's not to say there were not some small variations in the application between the various datum points. US built aircraft were finished to British specifications, in agreed substitute colours.

"Were secondary duties aircraft in WW2 painted yellow underside and camo uppers? Was THAT a regulation?" No. They were supposed to conform with the relevant regulations for their type, role and organisation. Training aircraft were supposed to have yellow undersides and received the disruptive...

This doesn't tell us what the colours were, but it does give stores references which might help an interested party track them down. The various classes of bombers went straight to disruptive schemes. NIVO (Night Invisible Camouflage Orfordness) was developed to be precisely that, and was...

They began experimenting in 1933. The schemes were tested for observability on the ground (from the air) and flying at relatively low altitude. I suspect that the context was to hide air assets from enemy bombers, which, as Stanley Baldwin had declared in November the previous year, "will always...

The investigations and trials into camouflage schemes began in 1933. These were conducted in various areas over various terrain. The drawings for the Temperate Land Scheme (the classic Dark Earth/Dark Green disruptive scheme, were finalised in June 1936 and presented in the Air Diagrams I...

This is a contentious issue! The late Edgar Brooks convinced me that many if not all manufacturers did use masks and he maintained that some MUs had them as well. There is a thread on Britmodeller which covers this, though inevitably it ends up generating as much heat as light...

I heard my name! So, 'A' and 'B' schemes. These were laid out in camouflage scheme drawings prepared in June 1936, in Air Diagrams for all the main types of aircraft. For example A.D. 1158 was for 'Single Engine Monoplanes' and 'Medium Bombers'. All these drawings illustrated TWO disruptive...

I'm always suspicious that a product like that might be a very expensively bottled version of what Blue Peter would have called 'rubber solution' glue. I'm not saying it's so, because obviously I don't know, but often there are cheaper alternatives. Any drummers here may remember Paiste's own...

Just popped in and saw this. I can't add much to what everyone else has said - it's a beautifully made model.

You are not alone, though certainly in a minority. I have never maintained a stash. I currently have exactly one model (and Xmas present) awaiting my attention and I don't believe that I've never had more than a couple of unbuilt kits at any given time in the last....errr....lots of years. I...

Jakko is correct.

Morrison is someone whose opinion always carries a lot of weight, and with good reason. His point is valid, would the Luftwaffe have employed red 'kennung'/codes and painted red identification markings on aircraft operating against the VVS? Unfortunately, neither he nor anyone else knows with...

Just thought to mention that 'Red 2' does not have a bomb slung beneath but and 'abwurfbehalter' basically a cluster munition container. It hinged at the tail. A quick google of 'Luftwaffe AB 250' will turn something up.