[Graham Boak]

Having spent some time peering at all the photos I can find, and playing the usual games of colour interpretation, I would confirm that the vast majority seem to have been in Temperate Land. From memory, there is one photo that appears to be in Desert, but I hesitate to state that definitely. It may have been in the interim official scheme of Tropical Land - Dark Green and Mid Stone.

However, some aircraft had the so-called "spaghetti" scheme, where the underside light colour is wrapped around the nose and the leading edge of the wing, then a streaky mottle applied of the uppersurface colours.

Undersides is probably anyone's guess. ME High Command had disapproved of the light Sky, so other colours were used. What can be seen does suggest something lighter than Mediterranean Light Blue. The term Sky Blue has been used, in which case it is probably the prewar shade, the wartime one being as pale as Sky therefore unlikely to find favour with ME HQ. It may simply be early examples of Azure Blue before the name became well known.