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Each month Internet Modeler will feature quality profiles by Bob Pearson and Chris Banyai-Riepl for many of the articles, and here you will find full size examples of those profiles, along with descriptions about them.

Blenheim Mk. IV V6028 flown by W/Cdr 'Hughie' Edwards of No. 105 Sqn RAF. Edwards was awarded the Victoria Cross for a 4 July 1941 raid on Bremen. Finished in the standard RAF colours of dark earth/dark green over sky.

[Blenheim Mk. IV Profile, Profile Publications]

An unknown Blenheim Mk. IV of the Free French Air Force operating in the Western Desert during February 1942. Shown in dark earth/tan over azure lower surfaces.

[Blenheim in Action, Squadron Signal, pp37]

Although the aircraft depicted here is an F.3, not an F2A, it is basically similar to the earlier series of Felixstowe flying boats. F.3 N4258 was based at Felixstowe during the fall of 1918. The boats were painted in various garish colours as an aid to recognition during the late summer. N4258 featured a red/white checkered pattern on the nose and standard PC10 on the rest of the hull.

[JMB/GSL Collection]

Short 184 N2642. Based at Westgate with No. 406 Flt, 216 Sqn RAF during late 1918.

[via Ron Mayo]

Nieuport 17 N2442 of Escadrille N.87 'les Chats Noir' (the Black Cats). Operating from Luneville aerodrome in February 1917. N2442 exhibits the standard Nieuport finish of overall aluminum-dope fabric areas and natural metal cowl.

[OTF 3/1: 81]

Brandenburg W.29 2530 based at Zeebrugge during August-September 1918. Note the name Anne on the nose below the cowl panel. Horizontal surfaces are covered in three-colour naval lozenge with the fuselage and floats in grey-blue (Methuen 19C2), the bottoms of the wings and tailplane were clear-doped fabric.

[Datafile No. 55 - Brandenburg W.29, pp8]

Pfalz D.VIII Serial unknown flown by Leutnant Harald Auffahrt of Jasta 29 during August 1918. The yellow nose (Methuen 4A/B7) and green fuselage (Methuen 27E4) was the unit colour of Jasta 29 and is seen on other aircraft used by them.

[Dan-San Abbott]