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Post by VBF-12 Stick on Dec 5, 2020 11:13:56 GMT -5
I have seen a few Hurricanes with roundels where the outer ring is apparently not the standard yellow, but instead a darker color. These are normal fighter squadrons. Any ideas what the 4th outer band may be? Or what the order of colors might be? The inner two are red and white, the next two are up in the air though the outer could be blue.
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Post by VBF-12 Swampy on Dec 5, 2020 16:57:21 GMT -5
www.asisbiz.com/il2/Hurricane/Hawker-Hurricane/pages/Hurricane-IIb-RAF-133Sqn-MDA-Z4999-England-1941-0A.htmlOuter - red, blue, white, red - inner dot yellow (color shift due to my monitor.) In b/w photos, yellow shifts darker due to Rayleigh scattering (very minor, I think) and luminance, which is how much light bounces off an object and in what direction. For example, in a dim room, ceiling fan blades vary from light to dark depending on blade angle to the light source. In photos, from one angle the yellow roundel is lighter, from another it is darker, and affected by atmospherics (and probably film and processing). Based on my simple understanding of photography. flyingart.co.uk/
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Post by VBF-12 Whitey on Dec 7, 2020 11:44:24 GMT -5
I think some were overpainted from other units like the Fleet Air Arm etc. Some markings were hastily painted on or altered to meet a new order. I've seen all sorts of stencils, messed up serial numbers etc. My grandfather was a crew chief in the Army Air Corp and he told me that they didn't always use the stencils to paint markings or serials. Hit or miss I guess
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