A few more questions for the experts

[luthier]

Originally Posted by HenFre

Hmm.. This actually concerns me alot to hear. Especially that last part about the torpedo being for the BR.20
I did not know a lot about the BR.20, but since your request have done a study of it on various sites on the internet. On every site it is said, that the BR.20 was never used as a torpedo-bomber and never was concidered for this role.
Do anyone or you Luthier have another angel on this?

Here is some of the homepages I have visited:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~fbonne/warbird.../fiatbr20.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_BR.20

Errm I think we had a little bit of a miscommunication here, or rather a little mess-up on my part. It is indeed not for the BR-20.

But we still need the color anyway.

Also, any info on any Italian armaments would be appreciated. What's the difference between a 100M and a 100T, etc?

[HenFre]

Great.. Crisis averted.. We can go down to DEFCON 3 again

Here is one picture, that I believe shows the head of the torpedo being coloured and the main body being metal:



(I think the strips on the head should be painted red and white)

Just found this on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cl69qp5O78

[luthier]

Originally Posted by HenFre

Here is one picture, that I believe shows the head of the torpedo being coloured and the main body being metal:



(I think the strips on the head should be painted red and white)

Thanks! We have tons of B&W photos, and I think the striped head one is a training torpedo. But we need to know what color to paint ours... I doubt we'll be lucky to find a color period photo of one,and modern ones don't look the same. I think our best bet is some sort of a period document that lists different munitions type and their colors, like we have for other nations.

[HenFre]

I will show you some colour fotos I found:




(torpedo type: Silurificio Italiano)

[HenFre]

Originally Posted by luthier

Errm I think we had a little bit of a miscommunication here, or rather a little mess-up on my part. It is indeed not for the BR-20.

But we still need the color anyway.

Also, any info on any Italian armaments would be appreciated. What's the difference between a 100M and a 100T, etc?

Do not worry Veltro. He has allready stated above, that the torpedo is not for the BR.20

[150GCT_Veltro]

Originally Posted by HenFre

Do not worry Veltro. He has allready stated above, that the torpedo is not for the BR.20

Hops, sorry mate you are right. My apologies.

About M & T, we did send all in Moscow several years ago if i remember well. I need to check again, but we should have all info you need about M, T ecc. ecc. (explosive type). But i need to search in my books and magazines, or waiting for friends reply.

[150GCT_Veltro]

Ok, i've found something (from "Storia Militare", a very good magazine).



100M is for "Bomba Mina" (roads, railways, light tonelage ships, bridges).

100T is for "Bomba Torpedine" (heavy targets, structures, medium tonelage ships)

I need to search again for explosives (TNT ecc. ecc..).

M = Mina (italian) = Mine (english)
T = Torpedine (italian) = Torpedo (english)
100 = 100 Kg bomb

[Abraxa]

Checking few pictures of SM79s and Italian torpedos, it really seems there's no real standardization in terms of colours.
It is possible that the "head" was painted in red sometimes, but I wouldn't draw any rule, IMHO.
Here's an interesting pict of a SM79's torpedo that I found online. It's taken at the Vigna di Valle Museum.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_yBKu6IwRjCY/Sf...0/DSCF1139.JPG

Although I would not follow the pict for the red nose as a rule, the grey colour looks quite realistic to me. Should I judge from the war picts I would say that the colour was either grey (the ordinary "grigioazzurro"?), either bare metal, maybe depending upon the producer. I guess that Veltro will be able to collect all the needed information on the Italian forum.

EDIT: one more pict.
http://media.photobucket.com/image/s...rviero-003.jpg
The nuance of gray looks way too lucid to me, in this restored piece, although the gray tonality doesn't look so bad.