The red ‘Millie P’

There was a colour three-view in RAF Flying Review magazine of this aircraft by Peter Endsleigh-Castle in the late 50’s or early 60’s ,some of which I have boxed up in a cupboard (I used to await the monthly issue eagerly to see the latest colour drawing).
The drawing was of a red aircraft, as per the Revell box , so they perpetuated an error that came from the artist having had wrong colour information initially, and subsequent issues corrected the colour to olive drab, after some correspondence,and there were some who agreed that the name was Millie ‘G’ , not ‘P’, if I remember.

The Endsleigh-Castle 3 (or was it 4?)-view came first. I knew the Revell box artist, the late Brian Knight, and he used the Endsleigh-Castle drawing as reference. He said he still blushed (mentally at least) when he saw the Revell box art. But as Brian S says, references were few in those days and seldom questioned to the extent they are now.

Brian K produced artwork for Revell and Airfix (mainly figures), covers for paperbacks, prints, commemorative plates and, my favourites, cover art for Windsock Datafiles. All excellent artwork. He was one of the founder members of the Guild of Aviation Artists.