Please add/correct to this as you see fit.
Currently only matched to Humbrol paints.

(key; Hu- Humbrol paint number; WOI - noted from Wings Over Ireland, D McCarron; MD- noted from Max Decals).



Brisfit F2B/Avro 504K

Upper PC-10 3*Hu:163 + 4*Hu:108 + 3*Hu:33
Under Clear doped linen Hu:74 ( or 5*Hu:34 + 3*Hu:103 + 2*Hu:148)
Brisfit F2B grey engine cowling
Avro 504K black engine cowling (MD)

RAF SE5a 1922
Dark red fuse, silver wings. Find me a colour pic and you can say I'm wrong! (MD)

Fairey IIIF
Silver dope/Natural metal overall, black top decking. (WOI)

Avro 621 Tutor
Black Fuselage, silver flying surfaces. (WOI)

Avro 626

DH 84 Dragon

Avro Anson 1; Gloster Gladiator
Pre ‘Emergency’ schemes (Green fuse and silver wings)
Gladiator, Anson, etc, I used Hu. 120 Israeli light green, but I’m not sure if this should be darker.

Westland Lysander

Miles Magister I

Supermarine Walrus

Hawker Hind

Hawker Hector

Miles Master series

Hawker Hurricane series

Lockheed Hudson

Fairey Battle

Avro Anson C19

Miles Martinet TT.I

Seafire III

Spitfire Tr.9


DeHavilland Chipmunk, DeHavilland Dove, DeHavilland Vampire T55; Percival Provost; Fouga Magister;
I find that a sprayed coat of Humbrol 27002 Polished Aluminium MetalCote, with a coat of Johnson's Klear (for sealing decals) gives a good scale representation of the silver lacquer finish these were painted with. Hu. 27001 Matt Aluminium Metalcote can also be used, with further coats of klear to reproduce a more weathered appearance. A slightly matter and greyer silver paint was noted on the leading edges of wings of Fouga 216 during it's time (in outdoor storage) at Cork Airport. Back only about 4 or 5 inches from leading edge. Fougas also had Insignia Red Hu. 153 on leading edges of air intakes. Humbrol 209 gloss Fire Orange (over a white base) for the dayglo areas. (Tip for silver finishes; best to spray the white base first, overcoat with the dayglo, then mask the dayglo areas and apply the silver. Follow with decals and Klear coat.) Matt Black Hu. 33 anti-glare panels where required

Alouette II


Alouette III and Gazelle.

Early on Alouettes were either natural metal or painted silver. Can anyone confirm which?
Later on Alouettes and Gazelles were Overall ‘Aerodour’ Grey, Humbrol 196 is a very good match.
Gazelles had red (Hu. 153 Insignia Red) panels on front and underside, but these may have been Dayglo at one point (need confirmation on this).


Puma 242
The interior of Puma 242 in IAC service in 1982(not to be confused with the Bundesgrenzschutz machines which were flown by German Personnel in Ireland in 1979) was overall creamy grey colouring on quilted soundproofing material on the cabin walls. The troopseats down the centre of the cabin were a dark blue with blue seatbelts as were the two fold up seats on the rear cabin walls.
The floor was a dark grey colour. There was a curtain separating the cockpit from the troop compartment and this was blue on the cockpit side and cream on the troop cabin side.
There were some webbing straps to prevent people leaning on the rear plexiglass dome on the floor at the extreme rear of the cabin and these were white/light grey in colour. (Courtesy Joe Maxwell)

Exterior green, Hu. 163. Satin finish.


Aerospatiale SA365Fi Dauphin
grey Hu. 196, insignia red Hu. 153 (satin to glossy finish). White area on engine housing above blue stripe. Satin black nose radome (Hu. 85)

Cessna/Rhiems 172 and SIAI Marchetti

Overall green Hu. 163, gloss coated. Marchetti has dayglo orange patches, Hu. 209 fire orange (over a white base) or 205 Fluoroscent Matt Fire Orange (again, over a white base; this shade is discontinued).


Gulfstream series

CASA CN235

Eurocopter AS355

Pilatus PC-9M
Upper surfaces Hu. 127; Underside Hu 196. Insignia red Hu. 153 tips to wings, tailplanes and fin/rudder. Glossy finish, but in 1/72 scale a good semi-gloss gives a decent scale appearance. Johnsons Klear is ideal for this, as it tends to matten a little as it ages. As originally delivered, the upper surface grey wrapped around the leading edge of the underside of the main wing a few inches; since then the leading edges of wings have received a (matt?) black finish, which makes it look like the aircraft have rubber de-icing boots fitted, which they don't. Natural metal/silver finish undercarraige. Aerials under rear fuselage are white.

Eurocopter EC135

Sikorsky S-61N

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NIVO as per IPMS Stockholm:

6*Hu:116 + 6*Hu:117 + 1*Hu:163

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Filip

To be honest, Phillip, unless you have a colour picture, whose going to argue with you? They could have been a mid green, as I used, or even a shade like Emerald (Hu 2) or Brunswick green (Hu 3).

Edit; according to Wings over Ireland, it was sometimes described as 'Pea Green'. Whatever that is.
Can't wait for Joe's book to sort it all out.

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14-09-08
For the Spitfire Tr.IX I used Lifecolor UA 060 (FS34227). Acrylic based but darn as clsoe as possible.

Liam

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Thanks for that Dave. So AMA, hmmm....
I have a Roden's Brisfit in half started stage, the Aber interior is done as are the other small bits and would like to build that first/?/ Irish one with the overpainted RAF roundels. Which was, perhaps, in original RAF colour scheme.
I think that the first batch of these aircrafts came to Ireland as a 2nd hand stock, so trace down the original RAF sqadron which were using them before could be an answer, but I can imagine that this might be an impossible task.

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Filip

In relation to the dayglo colour applied to the SA342L Gazelle, it was initially delivered in an "incorrect" red colour. This happened when a small side-view was sent from Baldonnel to Aerospatiale at Marignane depicting the colour scheme to be applied to the new machine. The colour was grey (Aerodur) and what should have been dayglo. Since no-one had a dayglo marker at the time (circa 1979) the nearest colour marker found was a red one, so the appropriate areas were coloured in and the drawing was sent to France. The red areas were labelled "Dayglo". Aerospatiale never saw the word "Dayglo" and had great difficulty in finding a match for the red colour. When the pilots arrived to pick-up the helicopter (237) they were shocked to find it was in the wrong colour. It came back to Ireland and was joined in 1981 by 241 which was painted in the correct dayglo colour. The dayglo fades in sunlight so eventually the Gazelles, and later the Dauphins, were painted in the "incorrect" and more colour-fast red. Paul Fry wrote about this "incident" in the Air Corps' 1997 commerative booklet.

Alouette.

I had a look through some older issues of SAM, in particular the builds by Tony O'Toole of the IAC Spitfire and Seafire. He had to do up a hand painted Celtic Boss on one of the models. He didn't mention a specific colour for the orange or green. He said he mixed up the two colours by matching them to the decals he already had. So no joy there.

Try putting a request on this forum;

http://www.worldairpics.com/forum/

A very knowledgeable guy called Tony Kearns can be found here and if he knows what the colours are, he is bound to answer any query you have. The only other solution will be to wait for Maxdecals' new book on the 'Corp. Not sure when it will be out, possibly in time for Christmas or the new year.

Alouette.

Which board?

You've forgot to post link to it...
here: http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=675&page=2


Anyway, it's known fact that almost every IAC aircraft was repainted during the service with the corps, some more than once and, I would believe that the paint not always matched the 'prescribed' original shade and even though they are talking about 2 shades of green I can see 3 shades of green

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Filip

@fise, do you know what front canopy was on it, as the italeri gives you two, im not a spitfire/seafire expert, but that pic looks like its the armoured one with the bulged frame on the front.

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Found those pictures of the Seafire cowlings interesting. Clearly at least two colours, the delivery colour? and a later overpaint? Now as it happens I have an old Irish army MKII helmet. It was repainted several times probably using the same paint as was used on Irish military vehicles of the time. Within the limitations of my monitor it's looks very close to that on the Seafire. The same glossyness and tone. There's a certain logic to it, after all the Air Corps vehicles would be the same colour. I wonder if this is the elusive colour? I'll try and match it with something. As for the underlying colour this actually looks like the colours of a piece of a crashed Seafire which I once had. Which I matched to Light Slate Grey. The crash was in 1951, maybe it happened before a repaint.