Mountbatten pink ?
Not exactly.

In fact, not at all.
As the SM-77 was shot up quite badly before its surrender to the attacking Gladiators, it needed a fair amount of patching up having been flown back to RAF Heliopolis on the Nile. Of course the RAF didn't have any paint to match the RA colours, so used the closest they had, thus the Mid Stone patches on the Nocciola Chiaro 4" upper wing colour. As the entire wing centre section was rebuilt to take the four Merlins, it will all be re-done in Mid Stone and the underside in Azure Blue, and will eventually have some Dark Earth camo patches as well.
That's all before the Italian 'camo' is added, not to mention the RAF roundels overlaid on the RA fasces markings.


