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The Hurricane MK2c bottom color

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The Hurricane MK2c bottom color
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 2:27 PM
hello,
What is the Humbrol color is suitable for painting the bottom of the Hurricane MK2 c?

thank you!
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Posted by gregers on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 4:19 PM
Hi BK and welcome to the forums, we need a bit more info to answer this one, which theater of operations ie europe, south east asia or north africa and what period of the war will help to track the color down. Greg
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 7:49 PM
Hi Greg and thank you very much for your help.
I have a problem finding the period of the war, but the theater of operations i'm looking for is europe.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 10:45 PM
I have a book dating from 1969, 'Fighting Colours' by Michael J F Bowyer, which states that on July 24th 1941, Hawkers produced drawings to change the top colour from brown to 'ocean grey' though this later became known as dark sea grey, the real Ocean grey, with it's hint of blue, came later. At the same time the underside was to change from duck egg green to medium sea grey.
Now that is No 165 in the Humbrol range & looks a bit dark to me. Though I'm no expert
& I hate to argue with Mr Bowyer, who is.
It's probably going to come down to how the individual aircraft that you want to model was painted, if you can find out for sure.
No 165 is a satin finish, if you want matt I'd go for No 64, or, for a worn look you might get away with No 28 if you dirty it up some.
good luck & Merry Christmas.
Pete
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 25, 2003 4:43 AM
Hi Pete
I think I'll pick the duck egg green because this is the color I was looking for.
thank tou for your time and help
and Merry Christmas
Ori
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Posted by gregers on Thursday, December 25, 2003 8:12 AM
Hi Pete, thanks or jumping in on this. you answered it more clearly than i could have. glad you got the info you needed Ori.merry chritmas. Greg
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