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RAF Battle of Britain Tocanno.


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An old friend of mine who I was in the RAF with posted this photo of a Tocanno painted up like a Spitfire or Hurricane,flying over at the Sunderland Airshow....

Very nice.

(With thanks to Les L for the photo)

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Saw them at Waddington show and they looked great. Does that colour scheme suit the Tucano or what? Sadly it will be a short lived scheme as it blends in with the scenery too well and make them hard to spot at low level. Im looking forward to decals for this scheme.

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I think the Tuc really suits this scheme, definetly got my Airfix 72nd kit lined up to do this, can anyone tell me if the codes are white or sky in colour?

Wouldn't it be nice if Airfix produced a 48th scale kit, you could have an overall black scheme, this special scheme, the old red/white scheme and a south american machine to give you 4 options straight out the box!!!

:winkgrin:

Eng

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Very nice. It's a real "RAF 46" look.

You can almost imagine it mixing it up with a BF-109 over Londons Sky's,filling the hun with lead from it's wing mounted .50's.....daga daga daga!

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I think the Tuc really suits this scheme, definetly got my Airfix 72nd kit lined up to do this, can anyone tell me if the codes are white or sky in colour?

Wouldn't it be nice if Airfix produced a 48th scale kit, you could have an overall black scheme, this special scheme, the old red/white scheme and a south american machine to give you 4 options straight out the box!!!

:winkgrin:

Eng

Gotta agree Eng.

Especially the 48th Option!!!

Another addition to the Wish List?

Adrian

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I went with some friends to airshow 2010 at skrydstrup air base (Denmark), and heres a link to their pictures.

There is some very good pictures with the Tucano i the Battle of Britain camouflage.

http://flv.dk/billeder/airshow2010/index.html

Those pics are great, some nice pics as the aircraft loops.

I think the Tuc really suits this scheme, definetly got my Airfix 72nd kit lined up to do this, can anyone tell me if the codes are white or sky in colour?

Eng

Eng, got to say from those pics the codes look white.

Julien

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The two Spit-canos (or Tuc-fires) were are RIAT.

Codes are white.

I managed to take some photos, examples below (I hope if I can get the images embedded)!

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tuc7.jpg

tuc5.jpg

tuc4.jpg

tuc3.jpg

tuc1.jpg

tuc2.jpg

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They look very smart in that scheme & would make a cool model with the right kit & decals. But, is it just my imagination or are the roundel proprtions a bit suspect? That doesn't look like 1:3:5:7 to me. Sorry if this has been covered before.

Steve.

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There were a number of non-standard proportions seen during the Battle of Britain, so these may not be "wrong".

They were giving out a leaflet for for the display team and it shows the Tucano flying with a restored early Spitfire (QJ*K). (I can try and scan if anyone needs it)

Apart from the differences in roundel proportion, the red and blue colours used appear to be "modern versions" and thus slightly lighter which put the kybosh on me using modified spitfire decals for my tucano.

There is a superb little page in the Spitcanno here

Linky

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They look very smart in that scheme & would make a cool model with the right kit & decals. But, is it just my imagination or are the roundel proprtions a bit suspect? That doesn't look like 1:3:5:7 to me. Sorry if this has been covered before.

Steve.

Decals will be available in a few weeks (AirDecal) :)

Cheers

Ray

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