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The old "Azure" debate...

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The old "Azure" debate...
Posted by Theuns on Friday, January 6, 2017 11:21 PM

Guys I have to build a 1/32 Tamiya Spitfire Mk8 for a friend in the colours of the USAAF operating in Italy 1944.

It looks to me like the standard RAF "temperate Med scheme" with dark eart/Middle stone ypper surfases BUT, what did the USAAF use on the bottom surfases? 

Was it also the elusive Azure or a different blue?

 

I want to represent a highly weathered plane so fading the top is aesu but the bottom colour is always a problem. I know that the RAF Azure had a very defenate "purple" almost "lilak/blue" hint to it.

 

Initially I am sure the USAAF would have used stock RAF planes with the insignea overpainted, but by 1944 maybe they had their ovn planes straight from the factory?

 

Thanx

 

Theuns

 

 

  • Member since
    January 2012
  • From: Barrie, Ontario
Posted by Cdn Colin on Saturday, January 7, 2017 7:48 AM

I think if the USAAF had Spitfires painted to their specs from the factory they would have been olive drab over neutral grey.  I suspect that the RAF upper surface would imply RAF lower surface as well.

 

I build 1/48 scale WW2 fighters.

Have fun.

  • Member since
    October 2005
  • From: UK
Posted by antoni on Saturday, January 7, 2017 11:26 AM

Spitfire Mk VIIIs were all supplied in the standard Desert Scheme of Dark Earth, Middle Stone, Azur Blue.

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