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  1. Patrick Martin
    The colour Orange (fluorescent) 609-401 was changed to Red 609-401 on April 28, 1969, without a change to specification. This would have not have a visible change of appearance on painted aircraft, but was the cause of numerous drawing revisions. The colour was replaced by Red 38903 during FS.595 standard conversion.
  2. Patrick Martin
    Plans for the T-33 may be found within Lockheed T-33 Aviation News 05 03 plans 72 all Lockheed T-33A le Fanatique de L'Aviation 198308 articleplans 72 colour views - part 2 Lockheed RT-33A le Fanatique de L'Aviation 198309 plans 72 Lockheed T-33A Modelaid International 198704 articledrawings plans 72 pa Lockheed T-33A Koku-Fan 198707 article plans drawings Lockheed T-33A Scale Aviation Modeller 201008 V16 #8articlecolour views plans 48 Lockheed T-33A Scale Aircraft Modelling 202001-plans 72 Pat Martin
  3. Patrick Martin
    Jan Jacobs was there at the time of the conversions. Jan ran the Smoke Trails (Phantom) mag. I would really like to see a high quality photo that clearly shows the upper wings.... Pat Martin
  4. Patrick Martin
    Check out the following: International air Power #8 USArmy SFOR Would Air power Journal #15bcolour views Koku Fan 1988 03 photos Koku Fan 1994 10 plans Air International 2016 12 US Army
  5. Patrick Martin
    Till the day somedomebody comes up with a colour photo .....
  6. Patrick Martin
    I have dug out my notes on this. Listed by John Griffin as RCAF drawing 2658 'operational Badge'. The Griffin notes do not infer exactly that this is a wartime or an immediate post war official use roundel (- which I would have known about). I have no such official drawing. When I look the drawing number, I get the inventory card for a Harvard. ....the colours are; outer ring Blue 2-206, inner surface Blue Azure leaf Red 9-202 veins Black 10-201 I do see 19 different colour standards used between 1920 and 1965 .... So if I live long enough I just may get to cover the post Great War up to 1947 period.. but there are thousands of pages of notes Pat Martin now if only I could find a Dutch NF-5 expert ....
  7. Patrick Martin
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  8. Patrick Martin
    Hi there: I have had one of these in my hands before - likely the same one. It was kept by John Griffin, and is currently stored at CFB Winterpeg. I remember the leaf as red. I did photocopy it when John Griffin loaned me his 25 binders of notes in Ottawa way back in time when I copied the lot. He kept notes on all of this sort of 'stuff' going back to the Imperial gift, including cloth samples from 504K etc. I really wish I had done a bunch of them in colour (but then I could go on about colour interpretation of machines at length!!!). All his notes were used by myself in the writing of a book on the topic of RCAF post war finish and markings "ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE - Aircraft Finish and Markings 1947 - 1968". There is a Vol 2 as well. This peal and stick roundel was also used on RCAF trucks, equipment as well as aircraft. I do have a full size photocopy as well so it cannot be wider than 8 1/2 inches - but it is close.... Pat Martin
  9. Patrick Martin
    So if am seeing this correctly - there is no new tool 1/72 the F-35B is a starter kit thing - right? Are there not two kits of this out there already? Everything in 1/72 is a reissue or change a few parts, new decals. Where are the people with those 1/72 wish lists for, B-24, P-47, Corsair, Lysander etc. Not one new tool 1/72 !!! Airfix you are leaving a lot of us behind.
  10. Patrick Martin
    So all Airfix have to offer in the 1/72 new tool in 2023 is a starter kit (42 parts) of the F-35B !!!!!! Tamiya and Italeri already do a serious 1/72 F-35B - so no serious 1/72 new tool at all!!!! First time in how many years? Really!!???!!!! It is time to replace the staff that make decisions. Everything else is a rebox or change of parts.... very disappointed
  11. Patrick Martin
    that'a it in 1/72 new tool !!!?????
  12. Patrick Martin
    Oh what fun ..... thanks
  13. Patrick Martin
    Calling all Frightning fans - Has anyone done or seen drawings or charts, suggesting different metals names/titles for different panels on the bare metal Lightnings? Sort of a paint by numbers guide? Pat Martin
  14. Patrick Martin
    I believe this is 9025, from the Bradley papers "Bolingbroke Mk. IV - 9025 YO*X (Damaged an oleo and supporting frame while landing at Kodiak, Alaska on 19 January 1943. The aircraft was repaired)" and "9025 (Taxied into parked Canso 11017, No. 4 (BR) Squadron, on the ramp at Patricia Bay on 18 August 1944. The aircraft was repaired. The starboard landing gear failed while taking off from Patricia Bay on 28 September 1944. The landing gear was retracted and the Bolingbroke was allowed to settle to the runway. The aircraft was repaired)" Pat Martin
  15. Patrick Martin
    so cutting cutting to the actual kit of the P-8 .... has anyone started the kit yet? What do the the big bit look like inside? Pat Martin
  16. Patrick Martin
    Very very nice
  17. Patrick Martin
    Shameless plug – but have you seen the recent AirDoc F-105 Thunderchief book?
  18. Patrick Martin
    XV424 did not carry its serial on the forward facing nose gear door, XV486 did and while at CFB Goose Bay was zapped by Canadian Armed Forces personnel, receiving a small CAF roundel on the forward facing nose gear door in the lower loop of the number eight. Although later a photo of both aircraft together at one point, was taken without a serial on the nose gear door. Pat Martin
  19. Patrick Martin
    I see off white not silver, in my slides. Pat Martin
  20. Patrick Martin
    Just used - check if you are modelling the 'one ocean' or 'two ocean' wordmark first. Different sizes for different types.
  21. Patrick Martin
    Climbing up the hill where everything slowed down making a great place to shoot in the afternoon!
  22. Patrick Martin
    Just for the record - there are CF-104 and CF-104D - no such thing as a 'CF-104G' Common mistake carried on and on. Pat Martin
  23. Patrick Martin

    Looking at the Lee/Grant painting in the 7 Division thread....  How about those that went to India?  I have a series of photos (father's photo album) of CDL Lee/Grant and Shermans with the 43rd RTR at all sorts of locations in India.  Any ideas on the overall colour?  I also see Stuart (no turret), ARV both Comet and Sherman.  But the one that really gets me is a Sherman DD, complete with skirt - no kidding in India!

    My field is aircraft so any comments would be welcome.

     

    I can send jpgs...

    Patrick Martin

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    1. Kingsman

      Kingsman

      Grant CDLs would most probably have been SCC15.  The few photos available seem to show a darker colour than SCC2.  If you have CDL photos it would be worth scanning and posting them.  Pictures of CDLs are rare and only a handful can be found online, covering only 3 identifiable vehicles.  I'd certainly like to see them.  Although my Takom Grant CDL kit has just gone on the disposal pile........

       

       

      Shermans everywhere were US Olive Drab No9 unless they were conversions like Fireflies that required repainting in SCC15.  Same for Lees and Stuarts, although some Stuarts were shipped across from N Africa and were repainted locally.  No-one seems to know what colour, other than a darkish green.  Almost certainly not one of the "official" colours.  Some Grants potentially went that way too.

       

      US-built M32 ARVs would have been OD.  UK Sherman ARV conversions were SCC15, but I would be surprised if any of those made it to the Far East.  There were no Comet ARVs but there were some on Cromwell hulls.  Those would be SCC15 but again I would be very surprised to see them in the Far East.  Cromwells were not deployed there.

       

      DDs? Yes there were some sent to the Far East.  25th Dragoons had them.  Never used operationally.  Most sources suggest Malaya rather than India but they would probably have ended up in India.

    2. Patrick Martin

      Patrick Martin

      Cromwell recovery vehicle - photo in India in the Album.  

  24. Patrick Martin
    I like everything about this build. The metal work, the idea of the 'display', it is just right is so many ways - great work. PM
  25. Patrick Martin
    I can show you all sorts of bare metal Herks where the metal panels (tail, fuselage, nose, etc.) over the years appear very different in colour. Pick your subject go from that. PM
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