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Quick question regarding the W.E.D. Harvard......I've got a couple web images of the topside of the planes and that "winter camo" scheme, but I can't tell from the chase scene video or any other pictures I've found, whether the undersides of the W.E.D. Harvards are finished in white or the typical Hellblau color so prevalent in German fighters. Any clues?Good stuff - looking forward to the "German" Harvard.
A few years ago. I started on making some "movie star" aircraft, with the 'Buchon' shown below, from the BoB movie, being one of them.
Maybe we could start a thread featuring movie aircraft ?
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Thank you sir! I'll keep looking around, as well.I think they were painted, for the movie, with "washable" white paint over the existing colour scheme, but I'll do a bit of digging to see if I can find out what the underlying colours were, and get back to you.
Wow, great research on your part. In the movie, we see the underside of the JU-52 as it takes off at the end of the chase scene, and it's done in white without the dark squiggles. I don't we get any good view of the undersides of the Harvards. So I just might do that in RLM 65 for grins and a little extra character.Although the movie was filmed in Austria, as I suspected, the Harvards were sold to the film company by the Swiss Air Force ( the Ju-52/3M was also Swiss, and was the one that crashed in the Alps a year or two back ).
The Swiss Harvards were ex - RAF aircraft and, when in service with the Swiss, were finished in painted "Aluminium", with a black anti-glare panel, probably as delivered from the RAF at the time, as seen in the pic below (Credit : Kyburz, via Stapfer, from the Squadron Signal "In Action" book ).
I'm now assuming that, for the movie, they were painted in a similar colour scheme to the Ju-52/3M, which would make sense, being the "easy option" for the production team, having all aircraft in the same colour scheme.
I'd have to watch the movie again to determine the underside colour, but I have the feeling it was probably the overall colour, white, with the upper surfaces having the green stripes / mottle.
That said, a light blue underside,, like RLM 65, wouldn't look out of place on the model, if you so desire.
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Yep, I wonder if the cowlings are more like RLM 70, Black Green, and the squiggles are closer to RLM 02 Grey?THX ...... and here two shots posted above but corrected with the Gama correction and reduced saturation of the blue. With no doubt the planes were painted with the white coat overall including the undersides. The squiggles were either of the dark grey or dark grey of the greenish tinge.
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