P-51D Moose/Candyman

Roobarb…

I’m also led to believe, that apart from the Mustang taking on a shade of brown, that the air around it was turned a shade of blue! 😀

Regards;
Steve

My memory is of it being a different shade of green (lighter) the second time it was painted. I think it went a temporary shade of brown after the event at Stapleford Tawney… 😀

No my 2nd parkzone flyer. I did 1 in humbrol dark green with light aircraft grey undersides & it just didn’t look right.

…Are you painting your big Tamiya Mustang in the same colours as me then?? 😀

Regards;
Steve

Moose was painted by British Airways at Heathrow originally

Seems incredible to think BA were doing warbird paint jobs back then.

My recollection is of it being a lighter shade the second time around after the “Empire of the Sun” scheme as “My Dallas Darlin” and also a flatter finish, possibly the same as the B25. It did look stunning in the first scheme at its first outing at Biggin Hill parked next to the equally lovely G-FIRE also just out of the paintshop. I seem to remember the second paintjob on Candyman/Moose was hardly dry before it went “ploughing” at Stapleford-Tawny ….;)

Moose was painted by British Airways at Heathrow originally, this is the other pic with SG standing to th rear. Again i don’t know who took the pic so apologies.

The guy that used to owner that aircraft (Charlie Beck) stuffed a P51 at (IIRC) Martlesham. There’s a picture of it hanging at Van Nuys airport.

Picture of Moose is in the old BEA hangar at LHR near to where it was painted, the Tristar has a tail dock around it as it was far to big for the hangar. The painter who did the work was Mike.

Richard

certainly looks that way tail is in the extra bit they built to acommodate the tristars?

Thanks guys, these are what i have on my pc, apologies i don’t know who took them to credit.

This is the scheme i’m going to do my 2nd Parkzone P-51 in 🙂

Is one of the images (with the TriStar) in Base Hangar at Brize Norton??

C6

Thanks guys, these are what i have on my pc, apologies i don’t know who took them to credit.

This is the scheme i’m going to do my 2nd Parkzone P-51 in 🙂

Best people to ask are
http://www.warbirdcolour.co.uk/

Cheers

Thanks for the plug 🙂 The scheme on Moose was applied many years ago (late 80’s I think) so it would be difficult today to say what the exact shade used was, however in WWII it was common in the 8AF to use available RAF paint to camouflage aircraft in the field (UK). In the case of Mustangs requiring such treatement RAF Dark Green was the best substitute for USAAF Olive Drab (with Medum Sea Grey substituting Neautral Gray) so this may well have been the case with Moose. If you can search out some photos we could compare.

Edit: Now looking at the shots the colour does look close to RAF Dark Green, although its hard to say if this was done deliberatly by the guys at Heathrow that painted the aircraft for Stephen. Speaking with Col. Bud anderson last summer I asked him about the use of RAF paint and he confirmed that 357th FG did use it on their aircraft so that may be the route to go (assuming the underside was also RAF Medium Sea Grey), both colours being readily available in the UK at that time.

Best people to ask are
http://www.warbirdcolour.co.uk/

Cheers