Hi, I'm doing a couple of Typhoons and I have seen models and photos of Typhoons with different type of D-Day stripes. Some have the black and white stripe the same width, and some have wide white and narrow black stripe. Why the difference ??
Thanks

Hi Mossieramm!

If you mean these strips, they are not D-Day markings. They were painted for rapid identification when the Typhoon entered service... to avoid friendly fire. The Typhoon could have been misidentified as the FW190

Jean-Luc

I may be wrong, but I belive the different width stripes were actually used for the Dieppe operation in 1942 (or it may have been a single white stripe). They certainly seem to be in use during 1943 in the photos I've seen, usually on the "car door" versions.

Early Typhoons had the 'under wing' black and white stripes, because as the other chap pointed out, they were getting shot at by friendly AA thinking they were FW-190. You will find these stripe mainly on the car door type machines (forget the dates)

D-Day strips are wider and are also around the fuslage and naturally were worn for D-Day

HTH

knikki