By: Lindy's Lad - 14th July 2007 at 11:55
Thank you both. You have confirmed my suspicions about the colours – there are some remainders of the coulours on the badge, but so faded. When I finish it, I will post the pics on here just so you can see what you have helped restore..
LL
By: LMLassen - 14th July 2007 at 10:06
RDAF Squadron badges is carried on a silver background (the frame witch appears to be white on the Catalina pic).
The Crown is gold with red cloth, the wings is gold. The shield is silver, with the Griffin (called a Grif in danish, but ‘translated’ to a Lørn (a combination of Lion and Eagle (Løve and Ørn)) by the Squadron members) is red. The Crown carried by the Griffin is gold. Finally the shield is edged by a bright blue tongued band.
The ribbon is dark blue, with back and inscription in gold.
Everything is outlined in black (except the overall silver background).
Hope this makes sense.
Lars
By: contrailjj - 9th July 2007 at 01:09
6th pic on Kev’s Legends alternative thread has a nice shot of the Danish Esk 721 crest as applied to Cosford’s Catalina
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=72127
As a rough guess-timate… red griffon/eagley thing, white ‘puzzle-piece’ pattern outlined in blue to the edge of the shield, and quite likely gold lettering applied over the blue band. Blue always seems to be the last colour to fade out in sunlight and the remaining text seems to indicate the former presence of a superimposed layer.
JJ
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July 9, 2007 at 12:17 am