RAAF Mosquito wing root stencilling

[sallyoz]

HI all

 

First time poster please be gentle.

 

I have Tamiya's 1/72 Mosquito fbvi in my stash and I am planning to build it as an RAAF bird. My question is did they have the "keep off" markings on the aussie mossies as all of the photo's on the net don't seem to show them.

 

FYI I will be building a camouflaged plane not the silver bird.

[Magpie22]

5 hours ago, sallyoz said:

HI all

 

First time poster please be gentle.

 

I have Tamiya's 1/72 Mosquito fbvi in my stash and I am planning to build it as an RAAF bird. My question is did they have the "keep off" markings on the aussie mossies as all of the photo's on the net don't seem to show them.

 

FYI I will be building a camouflaged plane not the silver bird.

 

All the F.B.VI Mosquitos received by the RAAF were built in England. As such, they were camouflaged in RAF colours and received RAF warning markings and stencils. Photos of camouflaged F.B.VI aircraft in Australia show stencil markings on the starboard fin so I would assume that they also carried the standard RAF "keep off" markings over the radiators. I do not have any photos of camouflaged RAAF A/C taken from above that confirm this but, I believe it to be so.

 

The matt camouflage paint absorbed heat in the Aussie sun and this caused glue problems and structural damage, so the RAAF over-painted all their aircraft in aluminium dope. In the process they over-painted all stencilling and warning markings and, generally, did not bother to replace them.

 

No camouflaged F.B.VI saw operations. Two, A52-505, NA-Q, and A52-526, NA-E, were used to escort Spitfires flying from Morotai to the Philippines in March 1945. They were the only camouflaged F.B.VI that left Australian shores.

 

Was that gentle enough??

 

Peter M

[sallyoz]

Thanks Peter 

 

That was gentle and very comprehensive.

 

Glen