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spray the Mr color medium sea grey for part of the engine crank cover .
Thanks I will fix that next time I'm in the hobby room ! By the way what is the color of the inside of the beaufighter cowlings ?Enjoying your work, but a wee note, the Bristol Hercules engines were nominally painted black when fitted to Beaufighters. Existing photos of night fighter Beaus confirm this.
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Based on the photos above, probably Interior Green and I suspect no one will criticise if you do them that colour. It might have been different on the night fighters though. I have only seen B & W photos of night fighter Beaufighters.
So on the the entire Beau engine is black including the cylinders and crank over ? or is it just the center section black and aluminum for the cylinder heads ?
Thanks i will be fixing them again. I will restripe them down and reapint..Looks like the entire engine bar the cylinder heads, as per the photos. You can just see the cylinder heads in the cowled engine on RD253.
Thanks good to know in the Blenheim.The same is likely with the Blenheim's Mercuries as well. These photos show a Canadian Fairchild Bolingbroke, but the casings are also black.
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The same on this flyable Blenheim I, although it too is a modified Bolingbroke.
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