With all the paint to make good, considering a change of livery. Any ideas?

The choices for the FXVII seem limited to a high or low demarcation between upper and lower colours, overall EDSG or EDSG/dark slate grey uppersurfaces and any colour as long as it’s Sky undersurfaces.

How about SX273 of 709 Squadron, RNAS St Merryn on exercise in 1945 – one of the most colourful of the breed

EDSG/dark slate grey uppersurfaces
Low demarcation
Codes S-50 in yellow
Yellow wingtips, ailerons, elevators and part leading edges (level to the inner edge of the aileron)
type C/C1 roundels
reference warpaint 20 pages 3 & 26

Thought the title referred to a restored Beaufighter for a minute there…….

Yesterday, one of the Breitling Stearmans heading up north over Worksop and then a few minutes later what looked like a classic V-tail Bonanza heading east

unrelated – but one way to make a bridge

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?37139-Queen-Mary-trailer-spotted&highlight=Queen+Mary

you might try searching on HMVF – iy might turn something up

it’s a great shame that the reproduction rumoured to be planned by Marin Baker before the death of Sir James Martin never came to fruition – that would have been a sight to behold

Here you go – there’s that fuselage section and the mortal remains of a jet engine shown as well

via Milweb

http://www.i-bidder.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/perkins-george-mawer-and-co/catalogue-id-5806

Mighty Mites seem quite rare over here – and the jeeps look good for data-plate restorations

The FAAM Firefly I was with Skyfame before IWM bought the collection. Before that it was a Swedish Target Tug if I remember correctly. Surely the best chance of seeing a Firefly I in the air is the example owned by ARC at Duxford. This is also an ex-Swedish TT

The IPMS Stockholm tables are quite useful as well as they give FS equivalents – which most paint suppliers can reproduce I think

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/colorcharts/stuff_eng_colorcharts_uk.htm