Moderator: PaulBradley
For starters ....PaulBradley wrote:I'll do a Taranto machine, if I can find some good references - serial/code tie-ups for example.
It will be pre-war; I have some decal options but not for float planes unless I get creative.PaulBradley wrote:John, I think you should build it how you wish.As Bruce says, its the markings that count. Did you have a particular machine in mind?
Markings will be an issue, for all of us I suppose, but I plan on cobbling together a set from my spares box.
Re "over aluminium dope elsewhere" -- except cerrux grey on the metal .... at least that's what all my sources say ...Brews wrote:I'll put my dibs on K 5972, a machine operated by the CO of 832 Squadron, on HMS Glorious in 1936, which had black upper fuselage and cowling (behind exhaust collector ring) and black/grey semi-striped fin, and a yellow sash on the fuselage with a black "804", over aluminium dope elsewhere. I don't think it did anything special other than look quite smart.
If you have any more detail, it would help widen the choice a little. Pity no-one thought to take photos.... You mean where the Observer taps the pilot and says "I say, old boy, could you hold steady a moment? The modelers of the future will be very annoyed if I don't get some photos... After that I'll radio Nigel to lift his wing a bit so we can get the markings ..."PaulBradley wrote:Oooh, thanks for that list, John - a big help.
Well, you say that but, as far as the reconnaissance for the Taranto attack was concerned this is close to what happened. Adrian Warburton made several very low flights over the harbour for photography, but then the cameras failed so so he went back so low that his observer could read the ships names on the bows. I think I remember reading that even before the cameras failed some Italian sailors can be seen waving at the recce Martland thinking it must have been one of their own planes! I suspect if Warburton had been involved in the actual attack, a detailed photo session would have been on record - provided the cameras worked of course...jRatz wrote:You mean where the Observer taps the pilot and says "I say, old boy, could you hold steady a moment? The modelers of the future will be very annoyed if I don't get some photos... After that I'll radio Nigel to lift his wing a bit so we can get the markings ..."PaulBradley wrote:Oooh, thanks for that list, John - a big help.
Getting back to the GB, what info on Taranto are you looking for Paul ? Pix/profile of any aircraft participating, a specific one ? I can do some looking in my refs ...PaulBradley wrote:It also occurs to me that photographic records might have been destroyed when Illustrious was bombed a couple of months later. I guess I'll give Nigel a break....
