[USN grey]

Hi

A simple question. In the Cold War era, what was the official name for the hull grey in use in the US Navy ?

Subsidiary question : best match ? Especially in Humbrol range.

Thanks

[Aeronavale Hellcats Indochina - Weapons loads for embarked aircraft]

US weapons only.

Found one picture (1953) with two bombs, each one at the root of the wing. One picture with the same load and four rockets, two on external points (without rail) for each wing. One showing the loading of a 250 Ibs bomb, and another showing the loading of a 1000 Ibs bomb (root point). A last one with belly tank and four rockets as above.

[Super Etendard help please]

LGB and, more original, AS 30L missiles (L as laser-guided). I quote below what I have found in a french site (ffaa.net) : Atlis pod centerligne, fuel tank under the left wing, AS 30L under the right wing.

"En effet, le 11 mai 1999, les Super-Étendard Modernisés n°13 et 30 appartenant tous deux à la flottille 11.F sont catapultés depuis le porte-avions Foch en configuration pod Atlis sous fuselage, bidon sous l'aile gauche et AS 30L sous l'aile droite. Chacun des avions lance son AS 30L sur des hangarettes serbes situées à Ponikve".

[Sea Harriers FRS.1 colours - Falklands]

Of course this topic has already been explored, but I find it still a little bit confusing.

I will limit the scope to 800 NAS (HMS Hermes) and 801 NAS (HMS Invincible) Sea Harriers going down from UK to the South Atlantic. Browsing the forum, I have understood that on the way the lower surfaces were repainted over with Extra Dark Sea Grey. Handpainted aboard HMS Hermes, airbrushed aboard HMS Invincible.

In short, is there a noticeable difference between the two treatments ? Photographic evidence ? Were the Sea Harriers aboard HMS Invincible of a lighter tone ?

Kind Regards

 

[U-Class submarines, Group I, bow]

Hi

The first three U-Class submarines (HMS Undine, HMS Unity, and HMS Ursula) had a very distinctive bow, a straight bow -or so it seems-, rather archaic looking. I have seen some illustrations, but never a single picture of this bow. Does anyone have something ?

[HMS Exeter colours - Battle of the River Plate]

Thanks a lot for this definitive answer about overall 507C and for the explanation about her patchwork style after the battle (she is much prettier in 507C by the way). Thanks for sharing this interesting photograph.

[HMS Exeter colours - Battle of the River Plate]

Hi

I wonder what were the colours of HMS Exeter at the time of the Battle of the River Plate. I believed it was overall light grey, but looking at the pictures of the return to home port, I am not so sure. The hull seems much darker than the bridge, and the turrets, and the torpedo tubes, almost white. Moroever, we can find in the IWM website an artwork from C. E. Cundall, painter, depicting the arrival at Plymouth after the River Plate action : the hull is medium grey, the superstructure is beige (beige ?) and light grey, the turrets and torpedo tubes are almost white, and the funnels seem buff. So, overall light grey, really ?

I am sure someone will help.

[Centurion Mk.3 colour in Korea]

So, definitively SCC15. Thanks a lot. I was heading the wrong way.

[Centurion Mk.3 colour in Korea]

Hi

This topic has already been explored in 2010 in this forum, but I am afraid the answer was not clear-cut. So, what was the colour for Centurions Mk.3 during the korean war, SCC or rather Deep Bronze Green ?

There are some colour pictures of Centurions in the IWM collections ("The service of Sydney Sherriff in the Royal Armoured Corps in Korea") showing a rather deep green. Deep Bronze Green ? I am not a british colours specialist, but I am sure you can help.