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- Wed Sep 29, 2010 3:08 pm
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Bombs Color
- Replies: 14
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Bombs in the kit are a couple of 250 kgs ordnance. Actually, they were seldom used by Z.501s, as the standard load was a couple of 160 kgs anti-submarine bombs. Pictures are from the manual indicated by MauroG: http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z301/stefanolazzaro/caproni139-1.jpg Nose fuse had fou...
- Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:49 pm
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: Fiat CR32 Colours in the Spanish Civil War.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15721
- Fri Aug 06, 2010 3:13 pm
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: Fiat CR32 Colours in the Spanish Civil War.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15721
Re: Fiat CR32 Colours in the Spanish Civil War.
The concensus seems to be that Mr. Caruana's illustrations are not quite authentic? No, I don't mean this. He is a great artist, and very kind and polite as I contacted him many years ago. Just sometimes, like any of us, can make some mistake. Research is very time-expensive, and this doesn't alway...
- Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:29 pm
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: Fiat CR32 Colours in the Spanish Civil War.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15721
I agree with Vince that colour don't look right, but the truth is in the contrary: official RA camo in 1936 was aluminium overall. Italians (and Spanishes) soon realized on the field about the need of camouflaging the aircraft. I heard that available colours at time were Railway ones, here the appli...
- Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:54 pm
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: CR.42 Lower Surface Colors
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12509
Thank you, Rick. To tell the truth, we still know very little about which paints were used for RA aircraft undersurfaces, whether aluminium, grey, light blue-grey or light blue. Also, as you pointed in another forum, there is the strong possibility that at least part of Breda 65 had them ivory white...
- Tue Jun 29, 2010 2:50 pm
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: CR.42 Lower Surface Colors
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12509
Thanks, Steven, that's exactly what I meant. I need to add that I've found a photo of an example of 413 Squadriglia in East Africa, belonging to VII serie, which seems to have had grey undersides (though Pierluigi Moncalvo thinks they could have been still aluminium). If so, the turning point for un...
- Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:33 am
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: Buscaglia's SM.79 281-5 Wing Insignia Backgrounds-June 1941
- Replies: 2
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Thanks Scott for your appreciation. Yes, wing insignia background became transparent by Spring 1941, due mainly for camo reasons. Here you can see port wing of 281-5, damaged after the action of 13 October. http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z301/stefanolazzaro/bus021.jpg Now I can confirm that uppe...
- Mon May 24, 2010 5:21 am
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: CR.42 Lower Surface Colors
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12509
Not the AS, as they had a salamander-like camo based on official colours, among them Grigio Azzurro Chiaro (FS36307). As far as I know, no painting orders for various production batches survived. There are some indications by colour pictures of Swedish examples, which kept original RA camo. It seems...
- Sun May 23, 2010 4:47 pm
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: CR.42 Lower Surface Colors
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12509
- Sun May 23, 2010 4:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Radial engined MC.202 and G.55???
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4013
- Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:20 am
- Forum: Equipment
- Topic: Question about venturi tube on Macchi 202 serie 3
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15313
- Thu Apr 15, 2010 3:54 am
- Forum: Reference Material
- Topic: Reggiane 2000 instruments pictures
- Replies: 23
- Views: 35995
In the Eighties, the late Sergio Govi published five books which are the ultimate work on Reggiane fighters, with an incredible amount of pictures, drawings, schemes, Units stories and notes on every single aircraft. They are long time out of print, and very hard to find. However, Giorgio Apostolo s...
- Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:07 pm
- Forum: Comments and Annoucements
- Topic: Per Stefano Lazzaro
- Replies: 1
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- Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:00 pm
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: Grigio Azzurro Chiaro?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17631
LazyCat wrote: Interesting, I was always mixing mine simply following color pictures of restored aircraft and never got HU141. I mixed large batch of it, perhaps it is time to repaint models? No, of course, your rendering is very good, and you must consider that actually personnel mixed paints, borr...
- Thu Feb 04, 2010 2:49 am
- Forum: Color and Camouflage Schemes
- Topic: Grigio Azzurro Chiaro?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17631
Official Humbrol formula to make the late 141 is: 9 parts of 27 Matt Sea Grey + 8 parts of 34 White + 6 parts of Matt Brown Yellow. As for the non-blue hue despite the name of GAC1, a question in the first post, we can say that pale blue or grey-blue undersides were used still before Tavola 10. Ther...