🙁 ), the guide did mention that the aircraft was to be restored soon when sufficent funds are available and that she would be repainted correctly this time so that is good news.
curlyboy

Don’t hold your breath, I think you’ll find most of the country’s museums are suffering a massive hi-jacking of their funding for an elitist white elephant in Stratford, East london… 😡

Pilots (or Sky Gods as is preferred) are uniformly devastatingly handsome*, even after a long night on the town servicing the needs of the eager doxies and rising at dawn to prepare for their dashing deeds.

Moggy

*Or beautiful in the case of lady pilots

Undoubtedly to be followed by Breakfast and medals, no doubt 😉

Any professional car paint supplier should be able to mix the paint if you quote them the spec which in full is BS381c No.627 Light Aircraft Grey. They should be able to do it in any finish (matt, satin, gloss) and in 2-pack or cellulose, though the latter is now sometimes difficult to obtain due to some thought that it was melting the icecaps/bringing warmer winters blah blah spherical dangling objects…:rolleyes:

Is it just the paint scheme, Roobarb, or is it the full “Bf109E” get up (dummy guns/cannons etc)?

It will be a new paint job plus refitting of the dummy wing guns and replacement of the rubbish Browning(!) .3 calibre top cowl gun barrels found to be fitted when it arrived from Breighton. We won’t be fitting a four blade prop, Buchon pointy spinner (we don’t have a 3 blade version plus backplate unfortunately) or the tailplane struts. The latter require a swivelling mount on the fuselage as the tailplane moves up and down to trim the aircraft. We are told that the film ones kept falling off as they were just studio mock ups for show, and didn’t move when the tailplane was trimmed. As to the question regarding the 9 remaining Texas Big Spring based examples, rumours are currently circulating of their impending departure to a more European destination, but these are unconfirmed at present.

what other airframes have hfl got? is a seafire one of them?

A Seafire is two of them…;)

Something that always struck me as odd when looking at the register entry for Spitfire Tr.9 G-CTIX/PT462 was the term (MODIFIED).
What’s modified about ‘462? I had thought it was the low-profile “Grace” canopy, but ML407 doesn’t have (MODIFIED) in its entry.

Perhaps it relates to the paint scheme having been “modified” by our American friends into one of their finest US representations of RAF camouflage…High gloss of course. If only the CAF Wildcat could be here for a duo of how not to do it! :rolleyes:

Many thanks for both the post and for the books themselves. For enthusiasts of the film they are the essential compliment to the Hardback of Leonard Mosley’s “The Battle of Britain-the making of a film” (paperback has the same story just not as many pictures). Only last week I was perusing my B of B film Vol 2 “photo album” and referring to my softback “working copy” of volume 1 whilst laying out some details on the colour scheme of the Duxford based Buchon that I am currently putting into its film scheme. I was lucky enough to have known Robert myself and bought my hardback from him at Biggin Hill when it first came out. It was signed for me by both Robert and John Blake and is a treasured item in my reference library. The softback reprint was a masterstroke and when I came across you with a pile of them for sale at a DX show a few years ago I knew I had to snap one up to keep at the Hangar at DX as a working reference. It gets looked at a lot, so thanks once again. 🙂