Harrier winter camouflage scheme

[chrisonord]

I have been looking at winter camouflage schemes for  my Harrier  FAW- 2 and have seen  two distinct  colour variations white being the main  one and some  are either grey with odd bits of  green and I have seen some  which  look white with green.  My build will be in service around  1978 as it will be fitted with  early  issue  skyflash missiles, would  either scheme  work  or was the different  colours  used during different  time periods.  Cheers
Chris

[Dizzyfugu]

On RAF aircraft, the standard wraparound scheme in Dark Green/Dark Sea Grey was simply overpainted with temporary whitewash, and there was AFAIK no rule. I have seen Harriers with the grey overpainted, but also with the green painted out (Actually, Airfix did this version as color option on one of the GR.3 kits, IIRC). There were also schemes outside of this basic pattern, I remember Jaguars (operated in Norway for training) that had a kind of white net applied, so that the grey/green underneath looked thorugh in a giraffe-esque scheme:









Anything goes - be creative! The whitewash finish itself is more challenging. 

[Mossie]

On RAF aircraft, the standard wraparound scheme in Dark Green/Dark Sea Grey was simply overpainted with temporary whitewash, and there was AFAIK no rule.

There was, however it was often abandoned (I'm assuming deliberately for R&D).  Can't remember where I read it, but I believe the rules said for the green to be painted over leaving the grey showing.  The washable paint was known as ARTF (alkali removable temporary finish) and was the same kind as used on Gulf War desert pink aircraft.

[chrisonord]

Thankyou for your input  guys  much appreciated.  That mottled  winter jaguar  looks smart  I have never seen that  before.  Thanks for those  pictures  Dizzy 
Chris

[zenrat]

The arctic giraffe scheme is very attractive and tempting to me.
I'm almost tempted to do a RW Jag.

[Dizzyfugu]

Also found this interesting alternative for the late NATO Green/Lichen Green livery (again, Norway), very small, though:





Similar patterns have also been appllied to the even later all-grey Harriers.

[chrisonord]

Excellent stuff Thomas, now I have to decide whether I paint over the white with grey or green, as both colours look good with the white. Looking at some of the harriers has made me realise that I didn't have to make such a good job of coverage with the White paint
Chris

[Mossie]

There are some more RAF images on this old thread for the Let it Snow GB.  You might have trudge through it, it's 16 pages long.
https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=23239.0

Tornado on this decal sheet:
https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/ML72104?result-token=laUj7

Early Harriers:
https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X48212?result-token=EoD6C
https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X72181?result-token=EoD6C
https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X72186?result-token=EoD6C

Wings Palette:
Jaguar
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww3/f/609/9/1
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww3/f/609/9/2
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww3/f/609/9/3

Harrier:
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww3/a/405/9/0
http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww3/a/405/9/1

[chrisonord]

Cheers Mossie, I will have a trawl through those later on
Chris