PRU Pink Spitfire Mk.IXc roundels

[flateric]

Dear forum members, all of sudden (GF wants PRU Spitfire kit) need help with exact color pallete (RGB/CMYK) and standard sizes for PRU Pink Spitfire Mk.IXc roundels (as I understand, these are so-called low-viz 'Type B' with 2:5 radii proportions).
Buying wrong discontinued Occidental/Italeri 1/48 kit for a price of Eduard kit just for decals is nonsense, Barracuda decal set is out of stock everywhere. I can order color laser printing though.
Occidental/Italeri decals have roundels much bigger on wings than on fuselage that contradicts with other sources and even with the kit boxart (and seems this is an apparent mistake).
Also of intersest are possible clues to tail number typeset.

All help much appreciated.

 

[rochie]

Sorry I'm no help i just used the italeri kit decals and winged it on the colour

 

[nuuumannn]

Taff Smith went a bit overboard with his interpretation of the pink on his PR.XI, but it looked great when flying alongside the black Hurricane as the Pink and Black Duo in the early noughties.

Pink Spitfire i

Pink Spitfire ii

There is a colour photograph around showing one of the pink Mk.IXs, and it's a really off-white, as Terry pointed out earlier in the thread PRU pink spitfires , certainly not as strong as this one, nor in fact the colour schemes those three-views show.

 

[Crimea_River]

Wait, did you say colour pics?......

 

[flateric]

Wait, did you say colour pics?......

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks for that but those of us who've been around a few years would understand my inside joke.

 

[fubar57]

PM sent...

 

[flateric]

Thanks for that but those of us who've been around a few years would understand my inside joke.

Those bright colors just fade over time...

 

[fubar57]

A few discussions on the pink colour; type into the search box...."pru pink +britmodeller"
A build here with a pretty good stab at the pink colour but no roundel stuff...Tamiya Spitfire FR IX- PRU pink (Finished)

 

[stona]

A few discussions on the pink colour; type into the search box...."pru pink +britmodeller"
A build here with a pretty good stab at the pink colour but no roundel stuff...Tamiya Spitfire FR IX- PRU pink (Finished)

I think that is a good representation of the colour on a model.

I remember the late Edgar Brookes saying that he had seen the original colour swatch at the RAF museum and that it looked white, until he put it onto a white background, when it had a pink hue. He may have contributed to one of those old Britmodeller threads, I haven't read them.

It was nowhere near as pink as some of the paint manufacturers seem to believe, or as pink as a certain warbird sports (or used to).

 

[fubar57]

An error the builder made, according to Edgar, was adding the wing walk stripe over the roundel. Nothing was to be laid over a roundel