The Little World

And Sky Blue, and let the colour contestants retire to their corners and come out fighting.

I was fortunate to receive a book from a friend full of careful tests and colour patches for WW2 aircraft. It contained references for RAAF Foliage Green and Earth Brown and I was able to mix reasonable matches with the range of Mr Color paints I have acquired.

There will be ‘raks who find fault with this, as well as people who use other ranges of paints that may have the exact colours ready-to-use in bottles. Good for them. My Wirraway is pretty much like the illustrations I see, and that is fine.

The internet pictures also show a hard upper and lower delineation while preserving a softer line on the two upperworks’ colours. I’m fine with this, having closely noted the paint pattern on a Douglas bomber in the Point Cook RAAF museum. I copy them, and if it is good enough for the curators there, it is good enough for me.

One nice thing about the NA 37 / Harvard / Texan / Wirraway design is the cockpit can be masked off very simply with a piece of card and some adhesive. No stuffing the well with foam or risking the interior details.