ben_m

The PR Mk.I type G (some of which were PRU pink) were armed (8x .303).

Just to jump on this, because i am a pedant. The stereo imaging used by PR in WW2 does not require two cameras. The split vertical camera installations were to widen the track coverage. They only had a bit of overlap to ensure nothing was missed. Images taken at the same time from these split verticals couldn't be used for stereo imaging as a) a much bigger overlap is needed and b) the separation of the two cameras was only a few inches, and the subject was up to 5 miles below. So not enough separation to get any depth information. Stereo imaging was achieved by sequences, with 60% over lap of frames, so everything was photographed from two positions. The interval on the camera timer was set from a calculation using by speed, altitude and focal length.

Not specific to these photos, but another I've seen with same appearance had a caption saying the cannons were removed.

Thank you! From Bob Niven's diary, I believe there was supposed to be a Tiger Moth, but it must have been in normal colours.

Thanks Paul. Could you list the other types that were in these colours/used by PDU?

And another 'new' one (that turned up in a PDF linked in another thread):

Nice to see how the pre-shading was applied to the 1:1: originals.

This painting was based on this photo: Image: IWM (CH 11578)

Someone liked a post I made in this thread years ago, so it brought it back to my attention, and as photos have resurfaced of this aircraft- P9331- (via the AA810 project's facebook page) , I thought I'd post them in this thread: (colourised)

I randomly came across this YouTube video of the Academy factory in South Korea showing the stages of kit production, and thought it was quite interesting.

The most recent thread on the "PR" Mk.I with clipped wings is this one:

I think it was normal for several aircraft in a bomber formation to be taking strike photos while bombing. I think heavy bombers were all/nearly all fitted with cameras, and photoflash for night bombing.

The PRU Mauve looks sensible given the mix instructions, but doesn't match the shade of grey in the black and white photo. So either the aircraft wasn't in this scheme, or the mix instructions aren't accurate for the colour used on this aircraft. The oblique camera opening/radio hatch was not a standardised part in Type G's, 140 Squadron (that was formed from 1416 Flight in Sept 1941) were certainly had some bulged doors, as seen in this photo: The July 1941 date is dubious for the photo of P9328, as there is snow on the ground, and trees have no leaves. My guess is this aricraft was technically in 140 Sqn at the time of the photo, but they hadn't change the squadron code letters to 140's ZW on this aricraft.

@28ZComeback A bit late to this thread. My research into the colours on G-AESJ for this time period are in this post: The mission to Wilhelmshaven was flown by Niven and the photogrpaher was supposedly from the SIS, and was normally taking passport photos for agents' fake documentation. The photos were taken hand-held out the cabin windows with a Leica 35mm camera.

You could scratch build the type 35 camera control that was in the same location as the gunsight. (Photo from this walk around: https://www.ipmsstockholm.se/home/spitfire-pr-mk-xix-in-detail/ )