stevehnz Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 That looks similar to the scheme in one of the Hasegawa kits I have. Desert scheme uppers of course. Steve. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 21 minutes ago, stevehnz said: That looks similar to the scheme in one of the Hasegawa kits I have. Desert scheme uppers of course. Steve. This one: Chris 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 28 minutes ago, dogsbody said: This one That is it. Interesting all this discussion & wondering if it really should be desert scheme. I think I need a reread. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blimpyboy Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 (edited) Just 'cos, some more. From here: https://saafww2pilots3.yolasite.com/ra-fenner-photographs--north-africa.php - some night fighters. From http://fritzjohl.yolasite.com/bassie-basson-photographs.php From here http://fritzjohl.yolasite.com/don-brebner-photographs.php (caption states "RAF Beaufighters at Castel Benito LG") Edited August 30, 2020 by Blimpyboy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EwenS Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 Blimpyboy Re the photo of the SAAF Beau you posted This is a Beau Mk.X fitted with rockets, see the NV serial, and dates from 1945, see the Type "C" upper wing roundel. After a short spell in existence in 1939, 19 SAAF was reformed in Aug 1944 by the renumbering of 227 squadron RAF. Between then and its disbandment on 10 July 1945 it was based at Biferno in Italy (just south of Termoli on the Adriatic coast). Its operations were against targets in Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece and against shipping in the Adriatic. I can therefore see no reason why its aircraft would be in anything other than TSS. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blimpyboy Posted August 30, 2020 Share Posted August 30, 2020 1 hour ago, EwenS said: see the Type "C" upper wing roundel Yeah, that did give me pause for thought - long after I'd posted it! Most of the pictures I posted come from SAAF-based sites; however many are undated and do not always have operator/location information. Sadly, too, I could not even begin to deduce any kind of colour info from those black and white pictures - too many grey areas. 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 (edited) On 8/21/2020 at 10:17 AM, tonyot said: While later Mk.VI, like this Malta based aircraft; Tony Im building a Mk.VI from 272 Sq. Malta, did you use sky, sky-blue, or Azure on the underside of your build ? On 8/21/2020 at 10:17 AM, tonyot said: Edited June 26, 2021 by Corsairfoxfouruncle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted June 26, 2021 Author Share Posted June 26, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said: Tony Im building a Mk.VI from 272 Sq. Malta, did you use sky, sky-blue, or Azure on the underside of your build ? I used Azure Blue mate,..... but quite a light version,..... good luck with it CC. It also has bomb racks under the wings; Watch the tails,..... some had flat tails and some had the later Vee style tail, I made this model over 20 years ago based on the below photo and still got the tail wrong as my model has the later V tail as per the kit when of course the original has a flat tail,...... which is pretty easy to change using the kit parts. Also watch the under wing roundels,..... many retained the old A Type,..... check these out; The beau below was with 227 Sqn on Malta,...a flat tailed MkVIC-X8035- J, lost-attacking-MV-Delphi. And some of the earlier Beau`s deployed straight to Malta from the UK retained their UK colours,...... this one is often said to have deployed to Malta and scored kills against the Italians,.... but when researching this 48th Revell kit I found it didn`t make it to Malta and was lost off Norway just before the squadron deployment; I have built a desert Beau,.... but I`ve never been convinced that they actually wore these colours! Good luck mate, Tony Edited June 26, 2021 by tonyot 9 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 Thanks @tonyot I modified the Airfix Tail to a flat one as The plane In the photo’s I’m using T5048 seems to have the flat tail. Ive already started to add the bomb racks, not sure If I will add bombs yet or not ? https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235094668-what-a-beau…-fighter/ Dennis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snipeboy Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 On 8/30/2020 at 3:51 AM, stevehnz said: That looks similar to the scheme in one of the Hasegawa kits I have. Desert scheme uppers of course. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Looking at the above, that tail camo looks to me to have too much contrast to be TSS so Desert Camo or Night Fighter Dark green & Medium Sea Grey. Being an earlier machine, flat tail planes & pole radar aerials, would it have been too early to be in the Night Fighter upper colours? Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted June 30, 2021 Author Share Posted June 30, 2021 11 minutes ago, stevehnz said: Looking at the above, that tail camo looks to me to have too much contrast to be TSS so Desert Camo or Night Fighter Dark green & Medium Sea Grey. Being an earlier machine, flat tail planes & pole radar aerials, would it have been too early to be in the Night Fighter upper colours? Steve. Hiya Steve,..... I do accept that some of the early night fighters wore the desert scheme,....... my query was mostly concerning the strike/long range fighters between early1941 to mid 1943 which are often depicted in artwork etc as wearing desert colours,.... but were they TSS instead? The photo that you refer to is probably MSG/Dk Green on the uppers,... but the desert scheme which was hastily applied to the very earliest all black Beau`s sent to the Middle East is a possibility mate. Cheers Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 55 minutes ago, tonyot said: probably MSG/Dk Green on the uppers,... but the desert scheme which was hastily applied to the very earliest all black Beau`s sent to the Middle East is a possibility mate. You're not taking a quid each way there are you Mr O'toole? I reckon I'd be going with the latter come the time if I could find the details for this machine, or any others from that time. It is a great colour combination as several of your builds of various types have shown over the years. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted July 10, 2021 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 On 8/25/2020 at 7:53 PM, V Line said: As it's my first post I thought I'd bring something useful. Tonyot in particular should enjoy watching this film from 06.08 onwards: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-worker-and-war-front-no-5-1943-online Cracking film that,,..... THANKS FOR SHARING IT,....some certainly look to be wearing a desert finish for sure,..... but others also look to be wearing TSS! https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-worker-and-war-front-no-5-1943-online Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 I couldn't view the link here, "not available to your location" but the same one, I think from the description, is also Here on the IWM website. Any idea what squadron had the BT codes at that stage @tonyot? To my eye BT-Y (?) at 8.51 & BT-? at 9.58 could likely have been Desert cam'd, but BT-B later on at 12.38 possibly TSS. They were all fairly early machines & would be attractive modelling prospects. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinK Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 6 hours ago, stevehnz said: Any idea what squadron had the BT codes at that stage It was 252 Squadron, I believe, Steve. https://military.wikia.org/wiki/No._252_Squadron_RAF 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted July 11, 2021 Share Posted July 11, 2021 I should have twigged that, heck, I've read a fair bit about these guys. An even better reason to model one, there are some excellent detail shots in the clip. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 On 8/29/2020 at 3:28 PM, Blimpyboy said: Another night fighter, I presume. Hello to all. Can anyone identify the serial and codes for this aircraft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elias Posted April 25, 2022 Share Posted April 25, 2022 Hello to all. Can anyone identify the serial and codes for this aircraft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warhawk Posted April 26, 2022 Share Posted April 26, 2022 An interesting photo popped up at Reddit - No. 252 Squadron RAF in North Africa, date unknown 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Howard Posted April 27, 2022 Share Posted April 27, 2022 New heavyweight hardback tome due out from Air-Britain shortly - currently at the printers. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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