Any Maltese A/C, Besides Spitfires, Receive Blue Uppers?

[Ryan B.]

Hurricanes perhaps? Either when cooperating with the early arrival Spitfire Vs, or later? It seems odd no-one addressed the desert scheme camouflage shortcomings before the arrival of Spits.

[AWFK10]

There's a photo, accompanied by a profile, in Tony O'Toole's excellent "No Place for Beginners" of a Hurricane IIc which has clearly been partly overpainted in a shade of blue or blue-grey. The photo was previously published in the Modelaid booklet on Allied aircraft in Malta, in the 1980s, and in another, more substantial book by Richard Caruana that's an expansion of the earlier one. It's reproduced in this thread:

 

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=49851.24

 

though contrary to the caption Tony believes that the photo doesn't show the aircraft shortly after arriving on Malta but when it was subsequently being used for long-range patrols (hence the external tanks).

[Troy Smith]

8 hours ago, Ryan B. said:

It seems odd no-one addressed the desert scheme camouflage shortcomings before the arrival of Spits.

 

IIRC this is because the earlier Hurricanes  were not in desert scheme, but Temperate Land Scheme,

 

eg

 

 

this one BG766, is a good candidate for having been repainted above

 

@tonyot   would be the chap for more detail and candidates

 

[Ryan B.]

Convincing pics. Never seen either of them.  Thank you , gentlemen.

[Graham Boak]

However, the upper picture would also be consistent with Dark Green overpainting Mid Stone on an aircraft delivered in the unwanted Desert scheme.