Need a bit of period camo advice

[upnorth]

O.K. I've blabbed about making my TSR.2 a tanker and such, but  iam getting a clearer picture in my mind of what it might look like. Like a bit of confirmation though:

I'm planning to place it in late 1973. As I understand, this entails:

Full colour roundels and gloss camo, green and grey over something.

I've looked at pics of RAF tactical types from that period, Buccaneers and Phantoms mainly and I'm seeing silver, light grey and sometimes gloss white for underside colour.

Were they all just as valid as each other for the underside colour of tactical types in the early 70s, or was there some rhyme and reason for each?

The reason I ask, is that I want to paint some day-glo reference markings on the underside of my TSR.2 for recieving aircraft to line up with her for refueling, but I have a feeling day-glo orange and silver (which was the original underside colour I was planning) would look pretty crappy together.

For the period I'm planning, would the light grey or white be plausible as underside colour?

I am right about glossy camo though, right? Flat camo didn't come in until the mid to late 70s, right?

[Nigel Bunker]

Normal finish: Dark Sea Grey/Dark Green camouflage over Light Aircraft Grey undesrurfaces.

Light Aircraft Grey superceded Aluminium from late fifties/early sixties (except for those neat silver Lightnings).

Matt finish came in with the low visibility red/blue roundels about 1973 ish, but the changeover took several years to occur as aircraft were surrendered by squadrons for deep servicing at MUs.

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Normal finish: Dark Sea Grey/Dark Green camouflage over Light Aircraft Grey undesrurfaces.

Light Aircraft Grey superceded Aluminium from late fifties/early sixties (except for those neat silver Lightnings).

Matt finish came in with the low visibility red/blue roundels about 1973 ish, but the changeover took several years to occur as aircraft were surrendered by squadrons for deep servicing at MUs.

Everything BunkerSan say, I second.....

Ian

[upnorth]

Thanks a bunch guys.