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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 30, 2017 11:08:38 GMT 12
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Post by davidd on Dec 31, 2017 9:42:09 GMT 12
Ah, I think we are getting closer to the truth now Dave; having excellent quality b&w photos of the "sharp end" of aeroplanes is a big help in deciphering these mysteries - I don't have a lot of such photographs as a reliable reference, so these pictures are a big help. Seems that varnished wooden hubs were all the rage for a while, but blades were, in most cases, fabriced and doped/painted, almost invariably with brass reinforced leading edges, and rear faces of most props (at least on single-seat aircraft) were painted matt black. Would be interesting to see rear faces of props on Singapore IIIs and other multi-engine RAF types of thirties. Not many multi-engine monoplanes in RAF at that time, practically all biplanes such as Vickers Virginia and HP Heyford night bombers, and the large Vickers troop carriers, plus several types of large flying boats, with the Boulton Paul Sidestrand and Overstrand day bombers being unusual. Only multi-engine monoplane during this period would have been the "Fairey Night Bomber", later known as the Hendon. The "night bombers" were invariably finished in overall "Nivo" (dark green) finish, so possibly had their props finished in something like this colour, or black. If certain types of props were applicable to both single and multi-engine aircraft it would probably have been sensible to paint all rear faces of blades black. David D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Dec 31, 2017 10:34:34 GMT 12
I guess the multi engined aircraft may not have needed the black strip on he rear of he prop, if that was to cut reflected glare, as the engines are not in front of the pilot and crew as such. Unless the glare also affected the gunners and navigator in the astrodome, perhaps?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 2, 2018 17:02:15 GMT 12
Another colourisation from a National Library of New Zealand photo, this time featuring RNZAF Lockheed Hudson IIIa NZ2063 in Fiji in 1948 wearing the International Search And Rescue colours. Colourised by me Click HERE for the original photo. Note David that there were no yellow tips on the prop blades even as late as 1948.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Jan 2, 2018 18:16:28 GMT 12
Didn't Lockheed make gorgeous aeroplanes!
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Post by markrogers on Jan 2, 2018 20:22:19 GMT 12
Beautiful picture! Didn't the orange band go underneath as well? I thought it did and I can just see the original b/w colour band going underneath the fuselage.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 2, 2018 21:21:39 GMT 12
Oh yes. now that you point it out, it is indeed vaguely visible. Now corrected.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 3, 2018 2:14:44 GMT 12
Lockheed Hudsons of No. 1 (General Reconnaissance) Squadron in formation over the Auckland Coast, on the 6th of August 1941. NZ2001 is closest to the camera-ship Harvard. From a series of photos in the National Library, colourised by me.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 11, 2018 23:46:48 GMT 12
Some more doodling tonight on a 1945 Auckland Harbour scene photo from the National Library
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Post by camtech on Oct 12, 2018 8:19:25 GMT 12
Love the sky colour - gives the photo some mood.
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Post by camtech on Oct 12, 2018 10:54:07 GMT 12
Love the sky colour - gives the photo some mood. Dave, I saw this first on my phone, and now seeing it on a bigger screen, it looks even better. Great skills.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 12, 2018 11:20:25 GMT 12
Thanks Les!
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Post by tbf25o4 on Oct 12, 2018 11:27:25 GMT 12
Hi Dave, magnificent work on the colouring. Perhaps you should talk to Peter Jackson about colourising the wartime news reels of the pacific
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 12, 2018 13:52:10 GMT 12
Blimey, that would be pretty cool Paul, but a heck of a mission!
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Post by pjw4118 on Oct 12, 2018 14:11:08 GMT 12
Very nice Dave , you should include the Corsair you did for me .
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Post by noooby on Oct 12, 2018 15:11:16 GMT 12
Going back a couple of photos..... The fuselage roundel on the Hudson in the middle is interesting! I wonder why the difference?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 12, 2018 17:19:35 GMT 12
I have wondered that too, it looks like they were experimenting with roundel types.
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Post by 30sqnatc on Oct 12, 2018 21:38:01 GMT 12
Someone had a sense of humour back then .... 'I say, lets do something to confuse those historian and modelling chappies in 77 years'.
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Post by tbf25o4 on Oct 13, 2018 14:12:38 GMT 12
The reason for the unusual roundel on the Hudson, is it was the internationally agreed marking for a military aircraft used for Air Sea Rescue, denoting a "neutral" aircraft to belligerent nations.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 13, 2018 15:43:47 GMT 12
Paul, i think Nooby was talking about the Hudson in the middle of the three-ship formation seen in 1941, rather than the postwar SAR painted Hudson further up.
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