I have a large Hurricane Pack in the works, it includes revisited Greek and Yugoslav
Hurricanes too. One thing that is mistakenly wrong and should warn any Skinner,
never try to combine a Skytailband and desert Landscheme.
In fact desert schemes where kinda rare in the YU squads, depending on the actual photograph, Serial numbers recorded.
Large parts of their Mk.IIC fleet depicted where indeed sporting the late Temperate Schemes, with the
afore mentioned Tailbands.
White A/LD118 is to my knowledge the only briefed real desert kite of the Yugos known, there are others mentioned, photographed,
but here we lack proper Serial/tactical allocation to speak about hard evidence.
Why is this one in desert scheme and the rest we see not? Early YU deliveries came from surplus Desert Squad stocks
left over. White A was depicted at the initial ceremony handing over before training began and was such a worn out 2nd hand kite.
Right after deliveries of factory fresh Mk.IIC began to the YU Forces, hence as per factory Temperate.
Same goes for their Spitfire Force, Pilots noted a small amount was left in their precedessors colours (desert),
Serial numbers where actually very low, indicating to a rugged, worn airframe. While the higher serials Spits
all where fresh Temperate Gals.
Can't say when I'm finishing the project, but you should see all 8 historical YU Hurricanes I could trace with their Serial/Tactical
in wartime pictures, of these 8, 7 are in Temperate Greys, indicating to later fresh production Hurries.
Hoped to be of Help
Best wishes
Tobias
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