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Beaufighter camouflage pattern(s)
lordQ
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Posted: Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 07:01 AM UTC
'sup

Does any of you know some nice patterns for the Bristol Beaufighter,,,?

cheerz Q.
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Posted: Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 08:23 AM UTC
Yep, there's Extra Dark Sea Grey over Sky, Ocean Grey and Dark Green over Medium Sea Grey, Dark Earth and Mid Stone over Azure Blue.
Which particular aircraft are you wanting to model?
Mal
lordQ
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Posted: Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 08:42 AM UTC
It's tamiya's beaufighter. Just want to do something unusual
Not the usual British camo.

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ukgeoff
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Posted: Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 09:50 AM UTC
There was a feature article in an old issue of Scale Aviation Modeller International (Sept '97) which had several colour profiles of the Beau. Most were in the usual British schemes but there was a couple slightly different. One was a Portuguese Navy Mk X in Grey, Green & Dk Earth upper sides with light grey underneath (only the side view, unfortunatly). There was also a TT 10 target tug with natural metal/silver uppers with yellow with black stripes underneath.
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Posted: Saturday, December 18, 2004 - 01:16 PM UTC
Aluminium Silver Overall - 789 Squadron (11f) Fleet Air Arm

Aluminium Silver over Trainer yellow/black stripes - 17 Squadron (TT.10) (R.A.F.)

Dominican AF, Portuguese, USAAF, Foliage Green (R.A.A.F) Coastal Command? Lots of really sexy possibilities...Jim
bilko
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Posted: Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 01:03 AM UTC

Q

Which mark of the Beau is it?

I have references for a Mark VIc - Natural metal with black codes; Mark 21 (DAP) from 93 Squadron RAAF (Green Ghosts) overall foliage green - another 21 30 (TT) squadron overall yellow with 2 broad diagonal black stripes onthe fuselage and another 21 from No1 Air Trials flight natural metal upper surface - yellow under surface with black diagonal stripes under the wings.- also believed to be the only Beau to carry the kangaroo roundel.

Bit biased here but they are all Aussie aircraft.


Brian
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Posted: Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 01:48 AM UTC
This may be a bit off topic, but does anyone know a good website taht has colour profiles for all ww2 aircraft, similar to the luft '46 colours?

cheers

Philip
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Posted: Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 10:56 AM UTC
try this;
http://www.cbrnp.com/profiles/quarter2/index.html

FINNISH AIR FORCE profiles;
http://www.sci.fi/~ambush/faf/color.html

a Russian website but has a lot of allied and axis aircraft profiles;
http://mkmagazin.almanacwhf.ru/avia/index.htm

see ya,
Vince (:-)
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