Trumpeter 1/48 SM 79 Sparviero.

[BarryW]

Now Japanese WW2 colours were mentioned…. MRP have those too and my Tamiya Sally will be coming up after the B17…. Talk about minefields!

 

[Airborne01]

Stick with weird……I like weird

What was her name?

 

[Jakko]

there's no colour called 'sabbia' sand in the Regia Aeronautica listings, but the pre '41 colours, the mimetici, are a bit vague. There are at least four different Giallo Mimetici, from four different actual real paints.

For those wondering, this seemed to me to be a pretty good guide, when I was looking into this subject some years ago.

 

[Tim Marlow]

What was her name?

What, all of ’em….

 

[Airborne01]

What, all of ’em….

Trollop ... !

 

[Steve-the-Duck]

Wait. Where is this going?

 

[Airborne01]

Wait. Where is this going?

Tut, tut Ducky - merely a little quackers interjection (or two)!

 

[Steve-the-Duck]

Tut, tut Ducky - merely a little quackers interjection (or two)!

Ouch!

 

[Steve-the-Duck]

I knew I'd find it eventually!


Yes, I have too many Regia Aeronautica books! Aaand, this is only four out of the ten or twelve of the squadriglia, so no way to know just what the others looked like. I've another pic of at least four different S.79s all from the same sqd and all in completely different schemes
BTW Buscaglia, as mentioned leader of this sqd. was, I believe, the guy that put a torpedo into Barham

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Well that's an impressive gert big slab. I'm still hoping for a 1/32 injection job. Or Airfix do one in 1/24th, lol... Hmm, Tamiya have never done anything Italian

However, time to put my nerd hat on, because those colours look a bit weird to me and my (copious) references and paint stocks.
The yellow could be giallo mimetico (camo yellow) '1', the most pale shade (I put the numbers in quotes as they're post war classifications), the green is a bit too 'green' for the verde mimeticos (camo green), but the brown is okay for bruno mimetico (camo brown). The underside looks close to a RAF 'Sky', rather than grigio mimetico (camo grey). That's all the pre '41 colours
The nose and leading edge look, to me way to dark, even for grigio azzurro scuro (the blue-grey for late seaplanes), and by my references ought to be closer to grigio azzurro chiaro (light grey-blue). 'Soft-edged' too

Going to have to look into this MRP range

...... Apart from that,it's spot on!!...