Subject: Re: New photo's for ARC
From: "Stefaan Bouwer" <[email-masked]>
To: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 18:29:21 +0200

Hi Steve.
It is the Mauve 1/48 scale kit.
Stefaan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Steve Bamford ARC 
  To: Stefaan Bouwer 
  Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 11:13 PM
  Subject: Re: New photo's for ARC

  Hi Stefaan,
  Thanks for sending in your P-40 article.  Can you tell me the scale and kit manufacturer?  I'll e-mail you when it goes on ARC.  Thanks again for sending it in.

  Steve Bamford
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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Stefaan Bouwer 
    To: Steve Bamford 
    Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 12:24 PM
    Subject: New photo's for ARC

    Hi Steve.
    I am sending you 3 photo's of another SAAF a/c used in Italy.
    The caption reads the following.
    A P-40 Kittyhawk III GL-O "Lady Godiva" used by 5 Sqn SAAF in Italy circa January 1944(White fin tip)
    This a/c have been wrongly painted in Desert shemes as seen on RAF a/c,ie Dark Earth/Mid Stone
    in numerous publications.(ie the SAM  as an example).
    The photo's in my possession and printed in our SADF Colours and Markings show it as much darker
    if one compare it to the desert schemes in B/W photo's.
    As explained in our and numerous publications it was painted in RAF equivalent USAAF colours.
    At that time it was most likely OD(41) and oversprayed by the RAF in a disruptive scheme
    with RAF Dark Earth.
    The underside is most likely Light Grey (FS36640) to get near to RAF Sky.
    It is much lighter on the underside than Neutral Grey which we also see on some of our P-40 photo's.
    The badge was hand painted as was the writing.
    My advice to modelers is to go and take a good look at Allied P-40 photographs in Italy and compare them to the Desert and ETO schemes.You'll soon notice the colour discrepancies.
    Stefaan Bouwer