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Are you sure it wasn’t a drill WE177? I worked in ESA carrying out the Electrical testing of all the storage facilities, never came across a WE177 and there was no facility for storing them.

1000lb free fall and retarded bombs along BL755 were very much still in use by the Buccaneers in the early 90’s. Can’t recall ever seeing a Buccaneer loaded with Paveway at Lossie, although they had limited use during DS. There was no WE177’s at Lossie. Most common loadout was AQ-101, CBLS, Pavespike, CBLS.

4 + 4 or 2 + 2, tanks generally not required as the QRA tanker would also launch.

I know on several of them the “Pink”, continued inside the air brake, can’t say if that applied to all jets in that scheme.

Definitely 16473, I can remember this aircraft whilst on a deployment to RAF Lossiemouth back around 1995ish, along with a USN P-3 still in the White/Grey scheme and there was a notable difference.

The Mirage F1’s at Gando went Grey around about 1994, we had a Sqn Ex with 617 Sqn at Lossiemouth and three out of the four a/c that deployed were Grey the fourth was Air Superiority Blue. Great build by the way👍🏻

They do, but it’s a Blk30 he’s modelling here.

It ain’t a paint job, it’s bare. All you’re seeing is the different colours of the various composite panels.

Where on Earth do they get FS36622 from it’s not even close. FS36373 would be my choice , although some photos show it looking as dark as FS36270.

However, all the evidence above and the magnitude of photos on the internet say different. Given their French heritage I would suggest flat aluminium, which when clean and in sunlight can look White , but when dirty and in subdued light looks Grey, they are definitely not White. I’ve looked at pictures going back when the IDAF flew them and none of them are White.

Greek A-7’s never used Taurus, but they did use AFDS, which looks similar in shape at first glance but is significantly different and a completely different type of weapon.

Not quite sure where you get White for the undercarriage legs(except from Kinetic)? I haven’t came across any recent photos to support that and the legs and hubs very much look Grey.

Gloss finish always appears darker than Satin or Flat

Only knew him through this site and over at ARC, but truly shocked to hear this very sad news. A wealth of knowledge and only too happy to share it with others, a true loss to the modelling community.🫡 Thoughts go to his family and friends at this moment

I always found it strange that there wasn’t one called Rodos, now I know there was.