Somehow, I always seem to come back to the Spitfire XVIs as used in this film!
Yesterday, while looking for something else pertaining to the film, I came across this interesting shot which is a scene from the film – though whether or not it was colourised after the fact, I do not know.
However, I have seen in one or two places that the aircraft were painted green and brown. I’ve often thought myself that they were an interpretation of RAF desert camouflage – brown and sand – so have always done my model versions in the same fashion (the exception being the PR version).
As you can see, the PR Spitfire featured heavily in the film is to the right of the picture, with the remaining Mk.XVIs in the background. However, they all sport GREY and green colours, which seem to be reversed when compared to similar colour schemes. The other difference, of course, being the red spinners. The undersides would, I imagine, still be silver with the serial numbers daubed over with grey paint.
At least my PR model looks like it should!
By: DazDaMan - 16th August 2018 at 22:53
There is that, too.
The two models are currently sitting on the table, waiting to be finished off. The more I look at it, the more the grey-green version is convincing me. There again, the sandy version looks better!
By: BSG-75 - 16th August 2018 at 15:50
I’m no expert Daz but it may well have been deliberate to appear as desert camo when the film is shown in monochrome, or at least that knowing how colour scheme needed a contrast to show camouflage effect. What I’m trying to say is that colours vary when shot in mono chrome so a desert scheme may look like two tone grey when filmed, so they used a scheme that would simply provide a contrast.
By: Meddle - 16th August 2018 at 14:27
They both look the same to me.
By: DazDaMan - 16th August 2018 at 14:18
So, after finding that poster on Google, I decided to do an experiment, and used an old Spit XVI model as a guinea pig to see how that paint scheme would look.
I then took a photo of the grey Spitfire next to the sandy version, then took out the colour to see how they compared.
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The grey-green version is on the left, the sandy-brown version on the right.
By: Paul F - 15th August 2018 at 09:30
I didn’t know they used Westland Wyverns in that film… :confused: :highly_amused::highly_amused:
By: Rosevidney1 - 14th August 2018 at 21:52
Could anything have really been worse, scotavia? Surely the most frightful illustration ever to appear on a film poster that I have ever seen!
By: DazDaMan - 14th August 2018 at 21:46
Oh wow…..
By: scotavia - 14th August 2018 at 20:58
could be worse https://filmsonthebox.wordpress.com/2015/03/12/malta-story-1953/
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