Spitfire Vb colour scheme

just found

I just found this photo for sale on ebay- Item number- 6598379892
Zumbach Spitfire

Note- I’m not associated with this auction, I just found it..
Neil Medcalf

so what will the Lancaster’s new scheme be?

Please be No. 75 Squadron…

Thanks to everyone for all the help, fingers crossed that this will happen at the end of the year.

Cheers
Fluffy

Here’s an old photo of the actual aircraft in question… No one’s posted it yet so I thought I would..
Neil Medcalf

Thanks Neil – now my desktop 🙂

Thanks James,

I guess another way to look at it is Disney should pay sponsorship to the BBMF for advertising their product! I wonder how Old Crow gets on with several Mustangs sporting their bourbon brand…

Was Ralph Lauren also going to sue Marco Polo? He makes mints doesn’t he… The Arabs who own Harrods in London forced the Harrod family in NZ to change their shop’s name! And the Hilton hotel chain sued a small back blocks pub in the village of Blackball on the west coast of the South Island of NZ that called itself The Blackball Hilton. Hilton won and hey had to change teir name by court order. So for the past few years it’s been legally known as “Formerly The Blackball Hilton”. The case put the pub on the map and it’s now taking more tourists than the Hilton!

Cheers
Dave

Certainly a certain private Spitfire owner won’t be paying Disney for putting the peeved Mickey on his Spitfire.

Indeed, more the converse.

Spotted on evilBay:

1/24th Jan Zumbach Spitfire

Pity it’s BM144, mind you! :rolleyes:

Photo

Here’s an old photo of the actual aircraft in question… No one’s posted it yet so I thought I would..
Neil Medcalf

They’d like you to… Although I’d think they’d be able to except the BBMF. Boeing wanted royalties from kit manufacturers for the Boeing scale models :rolleyes: I think they got told where to get off. Ralph Laren tried to get the Polo governing body to pay royalties for the use of the word. Possibly the stupidist legal challange in this loony arena.

Certainly a certain private Spitfire owner won’t be paying Disney for putting the peeved Mickey on his Spitfire. But seeing as they lost the last argument with him, I don’t think they’ll try anything with him again…

A good legal defence might be that it represents the colours of a wartime aircraft. The fact that the picture of Donald is there, is meerly ‘accurate’. 😀

It’s like that thing a couple of years back where McDonalds tried to sue the **** off some tiny little burger bar because they used the “Mc” prefix, which McDonalds claimed to be rightfully theirs – until the actual McDonald clan (and possibly a few others) came down on them like a ton of bricks.

Dunno whatever happened with that case, though. Anyone?

Just wondering, do you have to pay royalties these days to Disney if you use Donald Duck on an aircraft?

They’d like you to… Although I’d think they’d be able to except the BBMF. Boeing wanted royalties from kit manufacturers for the Boeing scale models :rolleyes: I think they got told where to get off. Ralph Laren tried to get the Polo governing body to pay royalties for the use of the word. Possibly the stupidist legal challange in this loony arena.

Certainly a certain private Spitfire owner won’t be paying Disney for putting the peeved Mickey on his Spitfire. But seeing as they lost the last argument with him, I don’t think they’ll try anything with him again…

A good legal defence might be that it represents the colours of a wartime aircraft. The fact that the picture of Donald is there, is meerly ‘accurate’. 😀

Daz, could you post a full shot of your model, please…..
Well Done…

Cheers,

Lynn

Sorry, it’s not mine. I Googled Jan Zumbach and came up with several shots of different Spitfire VB models 😮

This model shows BM144.

Daz, could you post a full shot of your model, please…..
Well Done…

Cheers,

Lynn

Just wondering, do you have to pay royalties these days to Disney if you use Donald Duck on an aircraft?

Good question!!

I wouldn’t have thought so, though. I mean, how many warbirds flying these days have some sort of cartoon character nose-art on them? Never heard of their owners getting into bother about the markings – but that doesn’t mean that they didn’t, I suppose. :rolleyes:

Just wondering, do you have to pay royalties these days to Disney if you use Donald Duck on an aircraft?

Zumbach’s Donalds

There is a small booklet published by Wojtek Matusiak titled “Zumbach’s Donalds” Model Detail Photo Monogrpah No 5 by Rossagraph ISBN 83-916229-5-9. It includes a large number of photographs of this artwork on a variety of Spitfire VBs mainly B&W but also some colour.

“Voytech” used to be a regular on this board.

Steve

ah, a colour version….

http://www.militaryimages.net/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/10771/cat/710/si/zumbach/perpage/9

Neil.

dunno if you’ve seen this one.. B&W, but similar to how its shown on the model in Daz’s post..

http://www.questionofhonor.com/questionofhonor/photo01.htm

Neil.

Fluffy,

I seem to recall that there were a couple of threads here a while back with some good close up colour shots of the artwork.

Actually, I think I saved them on my PC for reference! 😉

I can’t find the exact thread, but did find this one which has a fairly close colour shot:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=28209&page=2&pp=30&highlight=EN951

And thanks for the info about the new ‘Majors’.

I too thought it was a bit soon for AB910 to be having one!

[EDIT] Found this one too. No close ups, but it seems Daz might well get what he asked for! 🙂

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=39492&highlight=BM144

Cheers

Paul

Sorry about that, there has been a change with the servicing cycle it used to be 6yrs for a major but because of the hours we do each year it is now 8yrs so we are going to change the a/c paint scheme every 4yrs starting with AB.This only applys to the Spitfires at the moment The Spits that have gone past the 4yr point will stay as they are untill major they are MK, PM and P7 although we are thinking about changing the code letter for the 07 season hope this helps

Fluffy

Fluffy

I know P7 flew with 603 Sqdn, but I’ve always wondered what her individual code letter was, since (correct me if I’m wrong) she’s currently painted up to represent L1067, flown by S/L George Denhom.

:confused:

Sorry about that, there has been a change with the servicing cycle it used to be 6yrs for a major but because of the hours we do each year it is now 8yrs so we are going to change the a/c paint scheme every 4yrs starting with AB.This only applies to the Spitfires at the moment The Spits that have gone past the 4yr point will stay as they are untill major they are MK, PM and P7 although we are thinking about changing the code letter for the 07 season hope this helps

Fluffy