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with regards to the castles on the wings, I've only been able to find two photos of the High Speed Silver / PRU Blue scheme, and neither of them show the upper surface of the wings. Having said that, one of the photos (bottom of page Page 69 in the book "Canberra in Southern Africa Service" by Michael Hamence and Winston Brent) has a caption that says : "The same Canberra 451 at a later date with a Satin Silver upper surface and Blue undersides, small serial on the tail together with a fin flash and 12 Squadron badge. No Castle insignia carried."
From the thread. I don't have the book so can't comment.
This might not help, here is a model with castles.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/wangb-canberra-p12-all-weather-fighter-t470197.htmlApplying logic, the SAAF was obviously looking for a more tactical scheme. PRU Canberra's never had castles, so its likely 451 did not have castles on the fuselage. SAAF fighters generally did not have a mix of markings ie, castles on the wings but not the fuselage. (I know though that there are examples of this). So its safe to assume that the SAAF was probably consistent in this regard, again especially if they were in fact evaluating a new scheme.
However, I doubt they resprayed a new silver so the probably just removed the top wing castles if at all. So there is chance that the castles did remain for a while. All speculation though.
From a modelling perspective it would be safe to go with or without the castles, the problem though is that without it does look a little bare.
So its your call.
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