Snickerdo
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join:2001-02-28
Niagara Falls, ON
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Re: Billy Bishop - Canadian WWI Ace Pilot
said by DKS  :Again, "it depends". The mission of the a/c dictates the roundel style. Offensive, transport and defensive a/c use that style of roundel. Training, test and specialized a/c such as the Royal Flight use the three colour roundel. Right. Thing is, you're more likely to see the two-colour roundel I posted on an RAF aircraft than the traditional three-colour roundel. The roundel I posted is a "low visibility" roundel that is used on anything that's painted combat grey - fighters, bombers, lift craft, etc. There is a "camo" version of that roundel used on craft painted green camouflage (e.g. choppers) that is the same, but the sky blue and pink are instead the traditional dark blue and red, no white. The traditional three colour roundel is typically used on non-combat craft such as transports and the like where visibility isn't an issue, regardless of the colour of the craft. There's also a version of the roundel that's to be used on bombers that are painted white, it's the same as the traditional roundel w/white, but sky blue and pink like the low-vis.
Canada also has a low-vis version of the roundel, but ours is just a grey version of our normal roundel. This is the version you'll find on all our offensive, defensive and airlift craft. The Americans and Australians do the same thing with their low-vis. The UK can't do grey for low-vis because it would end up being confused with many other countries that use the same pattern for their roundel but with different colours.
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DKS
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join:2001-03-22
Owen Sound, ON
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| Low-viz red/white/blue.
Don't get me started on Canadian roundels. I have books on them (RCAF/RCN/Army/CAF) ad nauseum
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vue666
join:2007-12-07
| Know of any good web references on roundels?
If you know of any I would greatly appreciate it...
I'd like to do something on Roy Brown next so I'm searching for some references on him as well.... But suspect I'll be busy with car show photos and photography in general once the weather breaks in Nova Scotia... So I suspect I'll try a hand a doing a digital painting of Brown in the fall (or earlier depending on weather)....  |
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DKS
Damn Kidney Stones
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Owen Sound, ON
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3 edits | said by vue666 :Know of any good web references on roundels? Always work from a picture, if possible. For colours, FS595a/595b is the standard.
»www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorchart···arts.asp
And by the way, here is a discussion of one colour, Olive Drab.
And here is an excellent 1/72 scale model of Bishop's Nieuport. The author contends (and has references) that Bishop's aircraft was never painted with C5 on the fuselage.
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vue666
join:2007-12-07 | Were most of Bishop's kills in the Nieuport? |
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DKS
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vue666
join:2007-12-07 | reply to vue666
Last week I put my Billy Bishop image on Redbubble.com... Yesterday I got a notice from sales@Redbubble someone had purchased a framed wall print of it...
»www.redbubble.com |
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