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Boeing P-26. RAF stylie

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Robomog:
Hi all

 just a place holder at the moment.

I have never seen a group build generate so much comment in the ideas and inspiration section, you could pull the whole section out and drop it smoothly into The Sparring Room and no one would notice the difference.

It makes for fascinating reading and shows how unprepared the US was at that time, but all the debate is making it difficult (for me at least) to get a handle on a subject to model so here Is how I'm going to interpret it. (Essentially to make it "fit"  :o)

For whatever reason the United States declares war, Britain is in dire straights and needs aircraft, any aircraft, as indicated in the inspiration section the USA is lagging in the technology stakes but scrapes together some older available types, including the Boeing P-26, to bolster the RAF.

It was obvious that this aircraft would be no match for the axis aircraft in the European theatre so they were rapidly dispatched to the Mediterranean theatre to bolster the air forces there.

Dispatch was rapid and there was no time to fully repaint the Boeings just change the national insignia.

And there you have my very simplistic and tentative slant on the build.

(Do I hear a voice going. " Noooooooo!" ?)

More when it happens


Mog
>^-.-^<

Brian da Basher:
Oohhhh a RAF Peashooter in Med colors! Sounds like a looker already!

Brian da Basher

jcf:
You can have a lot of fun with colour choices.  ;D

In 1940 the overall bare-metal or silver paint scheme for tactical aircraft was in effect,
and some P-26s had been refinished, others were still in the blue and yellow. You could
have had a mish-mash of schemes on the pulled together P-26 lot.

In the mid-30s China bought 11 Model 281 (export P-26A) from Boeing and these were
all finished in overall light-grey, perhaps there was a follow on order that had ended up
sitting in crates in a warehouse for some reason, embargo, lack of payment or whatever?
These are then grabbed by the US government and sent along.

Post-WWII Guatemala stripped the paint from the P-26s they had received during the war,
and from that point they flew them with bare grey anodized aluminum skin fuselages and
green painted wings. The fuselages had the same patchwork effect as the grey anodized
skin of the Boeing 247, which is why everybody ended up painting their 247s.
 ;D


Of the water-based temporary camouflage paints used before 1940 some of the purples
and blacks were known to stick and leave stains, which required more cleanup than just
a hose and brush. P-26s with ragged leftovers of war games schemes?

Robomog:
Thanks guys, interesting stuff, I'm bouncing between yellow/blue or mid stone/dark earth/azure blue at the moment wavering towards the former.

I didn't realise I have so many choices  ;D

I will be starting soon

Mog
>^-.-^<

Kelmola:

--- Quote from: Robomog on October 15, 2019, 12:57:30 PM ---Thanks guys, interesting stuff, I'm bouncing between yellow/blue or mid stone/dark earth/azure blue at the moment wavering towards the former.

--- End quote ---
P-26's in yellow&blue are all too common (though not with RAF roundels), so desert camo would be more unique.

How about applying only dark earth in a camo pattern, leaving the yellow and blue visible? :smiley:

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