As was the “Hemp” Nimrod at Kinloss that turned up dressed in the “experimental” 🙂 metallic glossy brown “turd” ( “Sorry Chief it was wot was on the tin” )
Back on Subject there were a few Phantoms ( and a couple of Lightnings) in RAFG flying around with various shades of “Barley Grey” in the late 70’s. One could go on…D-Day squadron painted stripe variations , inc. later on in Suez ,Yellow/Black , then White (when the paint ran out) The Pink Recce Malta Spitfire “It won’t be seen late afternoon” -shot down on its first mission: “Black Death ” Harriers in the Falklands. All real life cases of the front line operators having to just get on with the job, whilst the rear support echelons try to catch up with the drag curve and make sure that the History books will later record the fiction of how it should have happened ……