i am currently working on Willie McKnight's Hurricane with the skeleton artwork and have hit a small snag and also a couple other minor questions.

1. My references on the underside are conflicting. All say black for the bottom of the port wing, 2 say white under the starboard wing, one says sky. I sort of thought it would have been sky undersides overall up till late 1940, then port wing in black for short period (no white on starboard wing). Do any of you know which is correct by any chance?

2. does anyone know when the sky fuselage identification band was started? I would prefer to have the black port wing without the fuselage band if possible.

3. all references show Douglas Bader's hurricane of 242 squadron with a black spinner in September 1940, and they all show McKnight's hurricane (also of 242 squadron) with a sky spinner in December 1940. I would have thought all aircraft in the same squadron would have the same color spinner? Would 242 squadron have changed their spinner color between September and December, or was there just variations of spinner color in the squadrons?

thanks for any information anyone can share on any of these questions

Ok, I may have answered my own question now - seems there was a november 1940 order to paint the underside of the port wing black, add a sky tail band, and paint the spinners sky as well.

can anyone confirm that all 3 at once sounds correct?

thanks, -v-

That is correct but there was a lot of variation in painting the port wing black.

sweet, thanks, now i can get back to painting!