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    Fumizou's Avatar Senior Member
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    Been thinking to try skinning spitfires but I have a question about the camo scheme. It seems that there is no variation - or only slightly so - between one spitfire to another. Is that correct?

    Another question: what are the colors combinations that used for the spitfires in ETO and in PTO?

    Im interested in skinning the Mk. VIII, mostly because I dont want to get involved too much with more texture stretching for the time being
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    As far as I can tell, they are only slight varations in the ETO's camo on each plane.

    Also, Spitfires in the Pacific may intrest you:

    http://www.odyssey.dircon.co.uk/pacspitfire.htm
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    That was fast thanks Norris
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    British built planes, which were painted in british factories, had a very standard scheme, contary to american schemes, for instance.
    Painters had to follow instructions so they previously drew the camo with a pencil, and at least applied paints... hence a quite perfect camo replica for every planes.

    I just advise you to find photographs of the camo. Sometimes, 3D profiles artists make some mistake, like interpreting the camo...

    The british camo is also visible on american planes, especially P-40, due to the fact that lots of early war Hawks (including AVG) were ordered by the british government. American factories had britsh camo plans, but they didn't try to reach a perfectly standard level...


    Hope it helps,

    Macwan.
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    Most British WW2 aircraft were painted the same way.
    They had standard colours and patterns (for most aircraft).
    The Spitfire in particular had a set of rubber masks. These were laid over the aircraft in the same place for each plane. Between 1939 and 1940, some Spitfires had these mask reversed to produce an opposite camouflage pattern. I think the colours were swapped too.
    These schemes were called A and B.

    That’s about as varied as it gets for UK manufactured Spitfires.

    There were of course exceptions to this rule.

    The Spitfire VIII, Vc and Seafires are all fine to skin.
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    Thanks again

    Anyway what colors are used on them? Especially on PTO spitfires. Dark brown and Dark green with grey bottom perhaps?
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    yes, but be careful - some images can be quite decieving...
    for the undersides, try something like RGB 128,133,133

    greens and colours such as; RGB 58,91,71
    or
    54,97,78

    Browns, who knows, but you can have a go at;
    RGB 94,91,77, but to be honest i am not too sure on the browns.

    and just to confirm, if you are doing a set or group of planes, they should all follow the very, very strict painting rules. A or B schemes, reversed. The gusy in the factories measured the curves and the positioning of the roundels, and every single marking. Same colours and so on, perfect, MUCH unlike the US planes

    hope this helps
    !!!
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    Aero_Shodanjo, after those sublime P40 skins of yours I can't wait to see these Spits. Keep us updated mate.
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    Anyone know the reasoning behind them having 'perfect' camo? Seems kind of frivolous, especially for wartime production.
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    Aero PM me an email address and i will send you the original Supermarine Spitfire Drawings for the paintschemes As I have all of the RAF BBMF Spitfire drawings on CD....
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