Mustang Colour scheme

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.

If made-up schemes are the way ahead, I want a brown hurricane with a red eagle on it (Russian markngs a la Johny ‘Red’ Redburn) from battle comics….

If we’re talking comic book pilots, my older brother had a series about “Johnny Cloud” a Native American WWII pilot and his Mustang was painted sky blue. Now that was neat!
Anyone else ever hear of that?

Or possibly there was another comic book with a hero in a sky blue F-86…I can’t recall with certainty since they weren’t my comics. Unlike my brother, I was into the Putnam series and reading Aviation Week when I was a kid. That explains a lot..:)

BTW: My English mother in law is a real Millie G….
When I see this plane I always think of her and wonder if she didn’t meet some USAAF pilot in the war, after all she lived in East Anglia and did frequent parties at American airfields.
But I’m sure it’s not her, as her husband was a officer in the RN somewhere in the Atlantic.
And she was definately NOT that sort of woman…:diablo:

If made-up schemes are the way ahead, I want a brown hurricane with a red eagle on it (Russian markngs a la Johny ‘Red’ Redburn) from battle comics….

Best comic ever…

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14447

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17321

Takes me back a few years that does!

If made-up schemes are the way ahead, I want a brown hurricane with a red eagle on it (Russian markngs a la Johny ‘Red’ Redburn) from battle comics….

Seconded 😎

Thanks guys, Millie G it is, that G is highly stylized ! I just looked at the boxart :p . Another google search for Millie G (same pics :D)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1568&bih=715&q=p-51+The+Millie+G&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

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.
I’ll see if I can locate the drawing and follow-up info. At that time, information was not always of the best, and colour three -view air -brushed drawings were, for me, the proverbial bees-knees, and far more scarce than today with the great amount of in-depth research material available and the computer-produced aircraft profiles and other excellent and abundant art-work . Brian S.

If made-up schemes are the way ahead, I want a brown hurricane with a red eagle on it (Russian markngs a la Johny ‘Red’ Redburn) from battle comics….

It was actually called the Millie G. My father made this kit when I was small & it was always my favourite. Most probably what started me loving Mustangs & their gorgeous colour schemes. I do remember not being happy when I found out Revell had got it wrong.

A quick google brings up many pics of “The Millie P”, all show olive drab, not red, so Revell must have got it wrong. Had it been real, at least one would have been painted up for airshows, has one ever ?
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=p-51+the+millie+p&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1568&bih=715