Camouflage and Markings

Artiklar för märkning och camouflage

Camouflage & Markings Part 2: Aviation of the Dutch Navy and the Colonies by Bouko de Groot   This article is a continuation of the three-part feature covering finishes and colours used throughout the history of Dutch military aviation. Please refer to Colours of the Dutch Air Force – Part […]

Colours of the Dutch Air Force ( Part 2 )

Camouflage & Markings Part 1: Aircraft of the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu) – Royal Air Force by Bouko de Groot This is the first part of the three-part feature covering the finishes and colours used throughout the history of Dutch military aviation. This part covers early and air force aircraft used […]

Colours of the Dutch Air Force (Part 1)

Camouflage & Markings  by Doru Sicoe artwork by Bogdan Patrascu     IAR 80 no. 42. of Grupul 8 flown by lt. av. Ion Micu in Summer 1941. Micu was the top-scoring IAR 80 pilot during this early stage of the war. Romania has a strong aeronautic tradition reaching back […]

IAR 80/81 – Romania’s Best Fighter

by Rick Kent A small but significant number of Spitfire Mk. I’s were converted to photo reconnaissance aircraft from even before World War II started. Indeed, it was one of these early reconnaissance Spitfires that was the first Spitfire to be captured intact by the Germans at one of the Paris airfields […]

Early Armed Reconnaissance Spitfires

Camouflage & Markings ..and the New Hasegawa B-24 Kit by Alan Griffith 2008 will see my first book released. Coincidentally, it is on nose-turreted versions of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator in USAAF service. In response to the announcement by Hasegawa of their B-24J ’Cocktail Hour’, I thought I should share […]

B-24J Cocktail Hour

by Martin Waligorski As a modeller returning to the hobby after several years’ inactivity, I found a whole new world of research about aircraft colors. During the seventies, every Luftwaffe aircraft model could be painted PLM 70/71/65 ”for accuracy”, and RAF Sky was still referred to as Duck Egg Blue or […]

Notes About RAF Colors, World War II period

by Mark Wlodarczyk  This essay is part of a larger work on the Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 ”Oscar” fighter airplane, soon to be published in Polish by AJ Press in the ”Monografie Lotnicze”book series. An English translation will hopefully follow soon. The ”Oscar” was the Imp. Japanese Army’s main fighter during […]

IJA Type 1 Fighter Nakajima Hayabusa (Oscar)

by Martin Waligorski Some modellers on the web asked me before about Polish pre-war and World War II aircraft camouflage colors. The question is interesting as almost all previously released models of Polish aircraft – like Revell or Heller P.11, or Heller PZL 23 Karas, or even genuine Polish kits […]

Notes About Polish Air Force Colors, Of pre-World War II ...

by Martin Waligorski As a modeller returning to the hobby after several years’ inactivity, I found a whole new world of research about aircraft colors. During the seventies, every Luftwaffe aircraft model could be painted PLM 70/71/65 ”for accuracy”, and RAF Sky was still referred to as Duck Egg Blue […]

Notes About Luftwaffe Colors