Modern RNZAF colours

[Dave Homewood]

What are the names and numbers (FS number I guess) of the modern paints used on RNZAF aircraft these days, such as:

The grey on Hercules, Orion and Iroquois

The yellow on the Airtrainer (is it the same as the RAF Trainer Yellow of the Harvard/Oxford days?)

And are there model paints that accurately match them? Such as Humbrol or Xtracolor?

[beagle]

Les would probably be the best to ask.
The grey looks very similar but satin finish to the grey used when the herks were camo which was 36118 so satin would 26118 ??

[beagle]

Hi Les, I see you just logged on, off the top of the head, they are........


ps, is Richard Harding gone ??

[lesterpk]

Off the top of my head, the Sprite is 26440 with 25357 markings, as for the rest I'd have to look them up. Can do on Wednesday and let you know.
Yes, Richard is gone and I just got back froms Tubb's dining in/out. Rather spectacular evening with 90+ there, I went to bed at 0630 the next morning and it was still going.

[beagle]

tubbs ?

[beagle]

Is Hamster still around with his mate combi
has combi finished his boat yet.

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks Les. If you could look up the others when you get a chance that would be much appreciated. Cheers.

[lesterpk]

Tubbs = Adrian Bennie
Ham is still around and so is Combi, and no the boats not finished yet.

[beagle]

I have made a thread for S&S, Les

[lesterpk]

Yep, I see that. However I dont wish to discuss peoples live in a public forum. Send me a PM with your home email address and I'll fill you in on what the latest is in the trade.
Les.

[Craig Sargent]

The Orion grey is an oddball one and is not gunship grey. I have the FS colour listed at home on the instruction sheets for the low-viz decals, but the only match for the grey is in the Xtracolor/Xtracrylix range. The markings on the Orions are Gunship grey (FSx6118)

[lesterpk]

Righty ho then, heres what I could find today.

BOEING
GREY 16251 DK BLUE 15044
BLACK 17038 RED 11136
WHITE 17875

HERCULES (Tri Colour )
MAIN COLOURS INTERNAL
GREEN 24102 SPOTLIGHT BUFF 33711
GREY 26118 GREEN 15193
BLUE 25237 DK GULL GREY 36231 (OR 26231)
BLACK 27038 (MARKINGS) VINYL SKY 34424

HERCULES (Single Colour )
MAIN COLOURS INTERNAL
GREY 26118 SPOTLIGHT BUFF 33711
BLACK 27038 (MARKINGS) GREEN 15193
DK GULL GREY 36231 (OR 26231)
VINYL SKY 34424

SEA SPRITE
GREY 26440
BLUE 25237 (MARKINGS)

ORION
MAIN COLOURS INTERNAL
GREY 16251 GREEN 24516
GREY 36251 ANTIGLARE ORANGE 22144
GREY 16118 MARKINGS DK GULL GREY 36231 (OR 26231)
GREY 26440 IRDS TURRET SPOTLIGHT BUFF 33711

WHEELS
AIRCRAFT TYPE COLOUR
BOEING GREY 16251
HERCULES GREY 26118
SEASPRITE GREY 26440
ORION WHITE 17875

As for Daves query on the Airtrainer Yellow, i suspect its YELLOW 13538 known more in the RNZAF as Pale Gold aka GSE Yellow.

All the above numbers are to FS595B, theres a good conversion chart for modelers at
www.internetmodeler.com/2003/november/aviation/fs595b_2.htm

Les.

[beagle]

What would have been the colour scheme for the f16's if we had got them.
Did they go that far at Ohakes before they were shot down.
I supposse the same grey they were in or were w egoing to go with the skyhawk green.

[phil]

They were going to be the same grey that they came in.

[beagle]

I was going to post an image of one of the ones we were going to get in the grey, but have lost my photobucket password and they have not sent it via e mail yet.
So from memory while I wa sin, they got about 4 out of the desert and started a servicing on them, pulled engines and did some mods etc, am I right.

[Dave Homewood]

Thanks Les, much appreciated mate!

[kiwichappers]

This was the response I got from Therese Angelo the Collections Manager at the RNZAF Museum in July 2000, when I enquire about F16 colours, so I guess that makes it semi official.

"The RNZAF F-16s had no particular colour scheme prepared for them, however,
some mock ups were done wearing the same scheme as currently worn by the
RNZAF Skyhawks. There are colour images of the current Skyhawk scheme on the
RNZAF Web Site www.airforce.mil.nz"

Anyway I did mine in Euro 1.

[Calum]

Kes

what about a colour for teh blue for inert weapons ?

[Craig Sargent]

As the F-16s we were receiving were embargoed ex-Pakistani F-16s, they were supposedly going to be delivered in Pakistani camo. The pattern is quite different from the US standard pattern. Have a look here:
www.f-16.net/gallery_item43989.html

Good article, including RNZAF involvement (and more images) here:
www.f-16.net/f-16_users_article14.html

[Calum]

Well I'm not repainting mine :-) Hopefully I'll be finished this weekend. Although I've a bit of problem with the Canopy :-(