Sunderland Beaching Gear - Colour?

[Graham T]

The Italeri instructions provide no guidance.  Any ideas?  White like the airframe?

[stever219]

There's a colour picture of L5802 of 95 Squadron ashore at Pembroke Dock showing the beaching gear to be either a light grey or aluminium colour.  I think ML824's gear is a brick red colour (but she only has the tail trolley at present IIRC).  Airfix used to suggest something near Medium Sea Grey in their kit (Grey M13 in their own range of paints.

[Ed Russell]

That's about the only colour picture I could find. There are stupid colourised ones around,

Post 64 here sums up what I have seen

The pictures have been Botophucketed but they weren't relevant to this topic.

[LDSModeller]

14 hours ago, Graham T said:

The Italeri instructions provide no guidance.  Any ideas?  White like the airframe?

Hi Graham,

 

This link shows the main gear silver

 

Beaching Gear

 

From an RNZAF Sunderland  Note the Light Grey

https://goo.gl/i2dqCk

 

https://goo.gl/z6FZRK

 

Beaching Trolly - Note I have seen the flotation blocks on these painted Red and Green for Port & Starboard

https://goo.gl/Q4D2PA

 

 

Short Solent (same type of Beaching gear as Sunderland) - note black colour

https://goo.gl/Hp34WS

 

Hope that helps

 

Regards

 

Alan

Edited August 21, 2017 by LDSModeller
additional photo

[Ed Russell]

Looking further at my notes, you can choose from

Uncoloured but probably treated metal

Metal with red and green flotation sections

Light grey or blue-grey

Dark grey or blue grey

Very Dark Grey (black?)

 

All over red or yellow seem to be modern colours.

Empire boats don't provide clues

The only one I have seen no written or picture reference to is white - which is how many modellers do them. there may well be a reference somewhere and it's possible some of the 'metal' ones may be white.

[Graham T]

Thanks for the replies, I've just painted them aluminium.