Coastal Command Sunderland colors

[CWD]

Modelers resources have proved an invaluable help to sim skinners. Hopefully, we can reciprocate.

I know a guy who's building a Short Sunderland Mk III model, and he's looking for information on Coastal Command color schemes. I see the white used for undersurfaces on the UK colorchart. Can anyone offer any further information?

My own Google searching has only yielded a couple of color profiles somewhat lacking in background information and some art prints. I found a ton of Coastal Command Catalina info, but very little for the "Flying Pocupine."

[Kosmos]

CWD,
The little I know is....
Coastal Command used the "Temparate Sea Scheme" (also used by Fleet Air Arm) which was Extra Dark Sea Grey/Dark Slate Grey/Sky, until around mid 1942. (I wonder if anybody has exact dates??)
After trials, it was found that white fuselage and lower surfaces worked very well for large maritime recon aircraft (Sunderland, Cat, Liberator, Fortress, Halifax, etc.)
The "plan area" (upper surface of wings, fuselage, tailplane) on these machines was left in the EDS Grey/DS Grey camo.

Sorry, can't be of more help.

Cheers
Kosmos.

[Kosmos]

Also......check out these books.

http://www.warpaint-books.com/

the Sunderland edition is still in print.



K

[CWD]

Good stuff! I'll pass this along to my aquaintance. Anybody has anything else, I'd appreciate it too.