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Zar
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Hawker Typhoon Colors
Posted by Zar on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:45 PM
When I get around to my second Typhoon build I was hoping to dress it up in a different camo scheme like say the desert. Did the Typhoon see action there? I'm kind of leaning towards no but am not sure.  Was hoping for different colors other than Green, dark sea grey and medium sea grey. Thanks in advance for any info.
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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:54 PM

I don't think the Tiffy saw any action outside the UK and in France & Belgium before the Tempest replaced it...  Could be wrong though, but I don't recall anything about it serving in other theaters of operation... 

There were a couple of captured Tiffies, one I know of was T9+GK with Zirkus Rosarius in '43, I think.. As far as I know, only UK, Canada, and New Zealand operated the Typhoons, but I don't know if the Kiwis operated them outside the UK.

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Posted by mshaneyfelt on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:00 PM
I have to second Hans' post. I have never seen a Typhoon painted anything other than the dark green and two-toned grey scheme. I think the Typhoon was a later war aircraft (1943+) and didn't see action in North Africa. Even if it is not historically correct you could alway do a "what if" model.
Zar
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Posted by Zar on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:01 PM
Hans, I'm leaning with you. Not sure it did. 
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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:08 PM

Well, doing a little looking around, I did run across these...  Guess I should Google before I type, wot?

 

http://www.cbrnp.com/profiles/quarter2/typhoons-1.htm

 

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Posted by fermis on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:16 PM
 Go for the white and green! pretty snazzy!

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 11:17 PM

And this one...

 

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Posted by Edgar on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:17 AM

Three Typhoons (DN323, R8925, R8889) went to the Middle East, but were only trials a/c, not used for combat.  Note, too, that these were the early "car-door" type.  According to Francis K. Mason, they were painted green/sand/azure blue, but that can't be verified.  There was one radar-equipped trials nightfighter, R7881 (also a car-door type,) which had one fuel tank occupied by some of the radar equipment, so it always carried two Hurricane-type underwing tanks.  According to Mason this was painted desert sand/extra dark sea green, at some time, but the same caveat applies.  Others believe that it was painted MSG overall, with DG on top, like nightfighter Mosquitoes, and that is probably the apparently white/green Typhoon on that series of illustrations.  Post-war another car-door type was converted to a T.T.1 target tug, with green/grey topsides, and yellow/black stripes underneath.  Also post-war, MN666 (a bubble canopy version) was stripped of paint (except for the rudder,) and flown by the CO of an OTU, the smoother/lighter finish enabling him to "bounce" student pilots.  Note that early Typhoons sported "Typhoon stripes" under the wings, which, though resembling the D-day stripes, consisted of three broad white bands, and five narrow black, not the constant-width types in June 1944.

Edgar

Zar
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Posted by Zar on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:19 AM

Hans and the rest of you helpful members, thanks for these tips. I appreciate it. Love that desert scheme and the light gray dark green contrast is nice too. 

 

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Posted by wayne baker on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:15 AM

I don't think that one profile is white and green.  I believe that is the intruder scheme of Sea Grey Medium overall with Dark Green top.

 

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Zar
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Posted by Zar on Monday, March 2, 2009 11:31 AM
I saw on Wings Pallette that some Typhoons had black over dark sea gray on top, that sounds interesting and is  maybe what I'll do. When I looked at the painting guide on the Mongram instructions lo and behold that is how they suggested painting it. 
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Posted by telsono on Monday, March 2, 2009 12:19 PM

Be leary of Wings Pallette as it sometimes promotes outdated research. I haven't seen any references to Typhoons with black instead of the dark green. Most of my references have the temperate color scheme of Ocean Grey, Medium Sea Grey and Dark Green. Early car door Typhoons over Dieppe had their noses painted white so that they would not be taken for FW 190's.

Mike T.

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Posted by the Baron on Monday, March 2, 2009 12:51 PM
I have the Squadron "Hawker Typhoon/Tempest-In Action" book at home, I'll take a look through it and see what it might have to add.

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Posted by the Baron on Monday, March 2, 2009 6:25 PM
Had a chance to review the Squadron book, it only mentions the ETO color scheme and the 3 Typhoons that were sent to North Africa for trials.  That's not to say there might not be any other color schemes, but they're not covered, if there are any.

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Posted by Edgar on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 4:29 AM

No Typhoon was ever painted grey and black.  I have a 1990 copy of Monogram's instruction sheet, and it gives FS34096, 36270 over 36440, which is probably as close as you can get to a FS relationship to Dark Green/Ocean Grey over Sea Grey Medium.  Be suspicious of anything from Wings Palette; I don't know what original research (if any) they do.

Edgar

Zar
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Posted by Zar on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 9:10 AM
Thanks for all that information, much appreciated
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