FZ6 Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Hi This is my first post on this Forum. I'm currently building a 1:48 Impact Hawker Fury and I fancy doing a camoflaged one circa 1938. I only have a side profile Illustration of the particular aircraft I want to do from Scale Aviation Modeller International. I was wondering if the camoflage followed a specific pattern i.e standard A or B Schemes I was also wondering about the size or roundels on the upper surfaces and the colour of the lower surfaces. Thanks in Advance Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troffa Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 (edited) Hi This is my first post on this Forum.I'm currently building a 1:48 Impact Hawker Fury and I fancy doing a camoflaged one circa 1938. I only have a side profile Illustration of the particular aircraft I want to do from Scale Aviation Modeller International. I was wondering if the camoflage followed a specific pattern i.e standard A or B Schemes I was also wondering about the size or roundels on the upper surfaces and the colour of the lower surfaces. Thanks in Advance Mark Greetings! and welcome to Britmodeller. Can't help directly but the Flight magazine archives have some nice black and white pics of 43(f) Furies like this one: http://www.flightglobal.com/imagearchive/I...Image=FA_16481s And this one! http://www.flightglobal.com/imagearchive/I...Image=FA_16477s Cheers, Troffa Edited November 21, 2008 by Troffa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seahawk Posted November 21, 2008 Share Posted November 21, 2008 Welcome to the forum! Hope this helps: Upper surfaces: dark earth and dark green in both A and B schemes. Fuselage roundels: 25" with 10" red centre Upper surface roundels: painted out altogether, at least at one stage Underwing roundels: 35" with 14" red centre. In some cases starboard roundel painted out altogether. Undersurface colours: port wings night, starboard wings white, remainder of fuselage and tailplane aluminium. On some aircraft the ailerons were left in aluminium, on others the starboard aileron was black and the port white, on others the starboard was black and the port aluminium. Source: Camouflage and Markings 5: Gladiator/Gauntlet/Fury/Demon by James Goulding/Richard Ward. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FZ6 Posted November 21, 2008 Author Share Posted November 21, 2008 Thanks guys that helps a great deal. The photos are really impressive as well. Looks like there is one of those yellow squares of gas sensitive paint on the lower starboard wing too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p-26luvr Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Greetings! and welcome to Britmodeller.Can't help directly but the Flight magazine archives have some nice black and white pics of 43(f) Furies like this one: http://www.flightglobal.com/imagearchive/I...Image=FA_16481s And this one! http://www.flightglobal.com/imagearchive/I...Image=FA_16477s Cheers, Troffa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p-26luvr Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 Thank you for the referal to the photo site. I looked around it & found some beautiful pictures of the Boulton-Paul Sidestrand. I have the Esoteric vacform kit in my to build collection & the pics should give me a lot of help. Carl T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p-26luvr Posted February 1, 2009 Share Posted February 1, 2009 I went off line to go through the full 118 photos on your referal site, and what a GOLDMINE of information can be collected from them. The section on the Bristol 138 is history in photos & it reminded me of the old Frog 1/72nd scale kit. The 2 line -up photos at Northolt in May 1939 are interesting for the variety of aircraft types on display just before WW2 broke out. The photos of the Hawker Furies & Demons have provided very useful markings info. Great reference for someone on this side of the pond. A big THANK YOU from Carl T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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