For some as of yet unexplained reason, after more than 35 years of building nothing built armor models, I have just completed my first “Wingy-Thingy”, Tamiya’s 1/48th scale V-1. I am looking for a paint scheme that is a little more exotic than the box art. I also need to know which colors are used. Can anyone enlighten me? [D)]
You can go wild on this one, because they ranged from RLM Gray 2, to a lower surface of RLM 65, or raher, the other light blue whose number I forget right now, with splinter camo on the top and mottling in RLM 02 and/or 70. In other words, many of them were painted just like your neighborhood Bf 109. And then I’ve seen some in only the splinter scheme, and others painted only in a dark green. Find a photo and let fly. The last two I did, one for the CAF museum, I found a photo of it painted almost identically to the last 109 I’d built. It was a coincidence, but I knew how to do it by the time I got to the V-1. BTW, for the amount and simplicity of parts, that Tamiya kit’s list price is highway robbery at its greediest. With a little modification, the ancient Hawk/Testors kit is about as good at a fraction the cost. You need to modify the pylon holding up the front of the engine, and do some scribing, and you’ve got a fine buzz bomb after painting. The cart that comes with Tamiya’s kit does not justify the extra price. It’s not that accurate anyway.
Tom
They have one in the Aus War Memorial. They’ve stripped back a fiar bit of the paint to the original & matched re-painted areas. Some stencils are original & some not (they’re flagged as such very subtly). The scorch marks are original. I’ll place larger sized pics on my web page:
http://bandha.customer.netspace.net.au/index.html
Carl
Thanks Tom and Carl. I’ve Googled the hell out it and come up with a few other patterns as well. Thanks for the info.