GWH 1/48 Douglas TBD-1 Devastator in Barclay Scheme No.8

January 1, 2020 · in Aviation · · 7 · 1.9K

Hope everybody got savely into 2020!

Here´s another more rare scheme, built in 2015.
Besides the USAAF also the USN tested experimental camos on their aircraft. The US artist McClelland Barclay designed 8 schemes which were applied to two Buffalos, two BT-1s, two Vindicators and two Devastators.
In September 1940 scheme #8 was painted on a VT-3 bird.
Colors aren´t 100 percent sure but it was a very dark blue, a brighter blue for the two vertical half-bows on the rudder, a grey and finally white for the underside.
My dad used a selfmix for the dark blue, further Tamiya XF-18 Medium Blue, Gunze H334 Barley Grey.
GWH kit built oob, the camo was done with Uschi van der Rosten masks.

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7 responses

  1. Reinhard, your father has built a very tight,smart and crisp build of the TBD-1 Devastator . Rarely do you see this paint scheme and in this scale. Very professional looking.

    Two thumbs up.

  2. Those schemes always fascinated me, great job!

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    Very nice, thanks for sharing!

  4. Congrats to your father Reinhard - a nice build and great to see this unusual scheme!

  5. The Barclay camo is always interesting. Great work on this one.

  6. Cool paint scheme done beautifully!

  7. 🙂 … Greetings … 🙂 :
    Barclay schemes always have seemed a little odd but at least for me … very interesting.
    It is a nice sight as well as refreshing too see it applied on this model.
    Very nice work.

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