hemp Canberra T17 upper wing roundels question?

[PaulR]

Hi all,

am wrestling the Classic Airframes T17 into submission. I am doing WD955 in hemp and red tail. The decals as supplied have large low viz roundels for the upper wing; I'm sure I've read somewhere hereabouts that they should be a lot smaller. Have tried finding a photo that shows the upper wing, but to no avail; does anyone know one way of t'other?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

[xlpainter]

Hi i was building that model i have looked at pics and it shows it as having red and blue roundels and also blue and pink i also see it at north weald airshow and the red on the squadron flashes are the wrong colour red it is too dark

simon

[canberra kid]

Hi all,

am wrestling the Classic Airframes T17 into submission. I am doing WD955 in hemp and red tail. The decals as supplied have large low viz roundels for the upper wing; I'm sure I've read somewhere hereabouts that they should be a lot smaller. Have tried finding a photo that shows the upper wing, but to no avail; does anyone know one way of t'other?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Hi Paul

They should be the small size ie. same as the fuselage roundels if you need photo's have a look at my photo album on the web site. The old style dark blue and red roundels were the "normal" Canberra size but not the low viz ones.

John

[PaulR]

Hi i was building that model i have looked at pics and it shows it as having red and blue roundels and also blue and pink i also see it at north weald airshow and the red on the squadron flashes are the wrong colour red it is too dark

simon

Hi Simon,

yeah, I've thought about the squadron flashes being too dark on the Classic Airframes kit, but having looked at a few photos I think perhaps they were darker in real life, and that the fin red was slightly lighter. The aftermarket decals I've seen for this version - Model Alliance et al - have the squadron flashes in a lighter, almost orangey red but that doesn't look right to my eyes. It would be interesting if anyone new for definite . . .

Paul

[sloegin57]

Will these help ?. Taken by my eldest son at Leuchars in the early 90's to add to the photo library whilst I was working overseas. The lower photo is of the fuselage markings on WJ630.

I will stand corrected but I am sure that I have seen, somewhere, a photo/reference to the early days of the pale red/pale blue roundels on the T17's and that they were the same diameter as "standard" Canberra roundels.

Dennis W Robinson

[thx6667]

IIRC, the smaller roundels started to be introduced on the PR versions, the early T17s would have had straight colour swaps using the same sized roundels as the red/blue versions.

[PaulR]

Will these help ?. Taken by my eldest son at Leuchars in the early 90's to add to the photo library whilst I was working overseas. The lower photo is of the fuselage markings on WJ630.

I will stand corrected but I am sure that I have seen, somewhere, a photo/reference to the early days of the pale red/pale blue roundels on the T17's and that they were the same diameter as "standard" Canberra roundels.

Dennis W Robinson

Dennis. that first photo is exactly what I meant! I can now build my T17 in confidence! Many thanks!

Paul