Why were spitfires pink

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Thread starter rochie Start date Feb 26, Airframes Benevolens Magister. Karl, there should be some pics on the rear cover, and in the book. Although I think yours is a later edition than mine. If I'd thought, I couild have copied some shots from 'Spitfire in Blue', which i had from the library when you were down! If the pics aren't in your copy, I'll scan and send them mate.

Edger do I detect a bar humbug with reference to the Pink colour? I must admit all the photo's I have seen of light coloured PRU spits does suggest that they were as mentioned above an off white colour rather than a pink. They could just as easily have also have been either sky grey or sea grey medium.

Anyway thanks for your help chaps and chapettes I now understand this subject a little better. Also it has taught me to look things up first before posting questions to the forum, first time in ages I have had about 20 books open across the living room floor trying to prove you all wrong only to find I was the one who was wrong, so shame on me, should have known better, especially with Edger on the case, damn that man!!!!!

I hope not, because that certainly wasn't my intention, and I'm sorry if I gave that impression; there's a very good photo, in the RAF Museum library, of the F. I was given sold, actually a photocopy of it, and have it on my computer; unfortunately it loses quality, when I try to put it on here, and the aircraft appear almost white.

If you'd like me to try sending one, direct, send a PM, with an E-mail address, and I'll see what I can do. No, not really more a half hearted jest, I happen to agree with you I think I have seen the same picture whilst on one of my many aviation jaunts and to be honest I think it is more off white than a true pink, trouble is when it comes to model paint red is such a strong colour that you have to be really careful when using it in a mix, the other thing to take note of is that the more coats you apply, no matter how thin, the pinker the model gets!

Anyway I have tried my best will take some photo's a upload them as soon as I am able. Thanks for your help, hope my new found knowledge on PRU spit wings is a lot more accurate than it was originally and as you haven't corrected me I will assume that it is now in better order.

I have never heard of the wings of PR Spitfires being referred to by letters. There is the obvious confusion surrounding the re-naming of the PR Mk. I variants from letters to roman numerals, i. PR Mk. Id became PR Mk. As for the Mk.

IG, it was basically a Mk. Ia fighter, including armoured windscreen and eight. It had no radio, teardrops in both sides of the canopy hood, two vertical cameras one short focal length, the other medium focal length , and a medium focal length oblique camera that could point out of either side.

The only extra fuel over the normal fighter was a fuel tank fitted behind the pilot's seat. The wings did not have the fuel tanks in the leading edges.

They did not have to fly long distances, they were mainly used for photographing the ports and radar stations near the coast. Details are indistinct the aircraft is in flight but they appear to show the 8 gun wing and no armour on the windscreen.

I can scan these and email them but Im sure that the currenty indistinct details woud suffer further. Way back in the mists of time, a fellow Britmodeller gave me the recipe for PR Pink, to replace the Xtracolour I had used.

Here it is:. Cheers, and I await your rendition with bated breath! You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! And in the same vein, a pink plane would have the opposite effect — against the green backdrop of the ground or ocean below, the Spitfire above would be instantly noticed. World War II took place well before the era of spy satellites, drones, and other technological advances which make overhead intel much easier to gather.

For the British to know what the Germans were up to, they needed to fly overhead and, literally, take pictures. But that was only part of the goal. The Spitfire still needed to fly over the targeted areas, take its pictures, and return back safely.

That required evading detection for much longer, ideally for the entire mission. The Royal Air Force allowed photo recon units to experiment a bit with how to get that part done, especially when it came to painting the planes. Over the course of the war, the Spitfires were outfitted in all sorts of colors, with the pink seen above one of those ideas.