Kermie has a bit of a scare

[Eric Mc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsca10FuUw

[mybrainhurts]

Some would say that's what happens when you paint French colours on the fin....I blame the haircut...

[aeropilot]

mybrainhurts said:

I blame the haircut...

What hair cut......?

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

mybrainhurts said:

Some would say that's what happens when you paint French colours on the fin.

The Rudder(not Fin) colours were introduced in 1915 for the RFC and RNAS as a recognition feature and conformed to the French design. After WWI they were generally deleted owing to the heavier dopes causing rudder flutter problems. The stripes were re-introduced in 1930 as a Fin Flash with the colours then being reversed to Red White Blue.

[Eric Mc]

I saw a clip where they were painting the Pup. I thought at the time that the blue looked a bit dark. RFC blue was generally lighter than the blues used later.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

There were a number of different coloured dopes used. I don't think they standardised till about 1917.

[mybrainhurts]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

mybrainhurts said:

Some would say that's what happens when you paint French colours on the fin.

The Rudder(not Fin) colours were introduced in 1915 for the RFC and RNAS as a recognition feature and conformed to the French design. After WWI they were generally deleted owing to the heavier dopes causing rudder flutter problems. The stripes were re-introduced in 1930 as a Fin Flash with the colours then being reversed to Red White Blue.

I trust the traitor who painted them French was beheaded in the Tower when his treachery was exposed.

[AlexC1981]

Must have been the hun in the sun what did it

[Eric Mc]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

There were a number of different coloured dopes used. I don't think they standardised till about 1917.

The problem is that there was little or no colour photography in that period. Shades of paint are hard to determine from black and white pictures.

Most decal sheets that come with scale models - or after market sheets - tend to depict the blue in a lighter tone than what we saw later from the 1920s onwards.