Robbo,

You’re not sticking your neck out at all!! This is the first constructive response I have read and a quite reasonable explanation! Okay, perhaps I am being a bit hard on the Collection, but an accurate representation of the CFS team would have been nice! YES, it DOES look good and YES it needs to be kept in good nick ahead of the Gladiator because its used for pilot training.
What we need now is ‘Hairy Plane’ to get his Magister repainted and get Tiger Moth G-ANNI over to OW so all the CFS teams can be put up together :rolleyes:

Henstridge Vintage fly-In

Wemt to the Henstridge Vintage Aircraft & Vehicle Meet today and had a very pleasant day with some Auster surprises! Pleased to meet T6 Flyer and other forumites. Austers included two BEAGLE Terriers, G-ARNO and G-ASZX completely deconverted back to AOP.6s. G-ARNO now as VX113 even had its 1959 Kings Cup Air Race No.36 applied and G-ASZX is back as WJ368. Here are some of my photos including ‘T6 Flyer’ departing in Auster AOP.9 XR240/G-BDFH. Also the very rare Auster J-1A Crofton, G-BVGT, which took 10 years to rebuild. Finally, something you don’t see every day -a Hiller UH-12B, N38763. Surprise appearance by the RNHF Sea Fury to/from Devonport’s Navy Day.

Why doesn’t Corgi send colour chips to China instead of references, so their painters can colour match rather than misinterpret written references?

And, why don’t they ask for test shots to check for accuracy before releasing their toys en masse onto the market? Other modelmakers do.

Whoever was responsible for the awful Corgi attempt at a No. 15 Squadron RNZAF Kittyhawk should have been fired – just look at it, it’s a disgrace!
http://www.wingsandwheel.com/images/corgi/new%20corgi/AA35202.jpg

It should look like these colours on Ray Hannas’ old P-40
http://www.airventure.de/hahn2000pics/hahn2000_8.JPG

It’s an easily researchable scheme and anyone knows what RAF Dark Green and Dark Earth look like. But Corgi painted it an awful calf-sh*t sand colour! Is that the colour of earth in China?

Plus white spinner and codes, where they should be RAF Sky like the undersides (or have they painted the underneath white too?).

It’s bad enough that almost EVERY model manufacturer and decal maker get RNZAF Pacific roundels the wrong colour blue, but this P-40 is an easily researched scheme and all it says to me is no-one could be bothered looking it up or asking an RNZAF historian.

It is this sort of thing that will make kids – the people of our future – when they play with these overpriced Corgi toys think that RNZAF aircraft flew in sand coloured P-40’s and prepetuate a false myth for the future. Not that the masking tape was a couple of inches too low on the Tiger Moth’s otherwise lovely scheme.

Dave,

Firstly it just isn’t practical to keep sending chips to China…whatever next, coals to Newcastle? :rolleyes: Secondly the NZ Kittyhawk was nothing to do with me, although if I hadn’t intervened it would have been painted in RAF desert camo! 😮 You give them the correct British Standard or Federal Standard reference numbers, you check the artwork and check the prototype model…..all correct, then the Chinese ****-up the production run! I can only lead them to water….!!! Actually production of all diecast models in China is now becoming saturated and too expensive and they will probably be moved elsewhere. As many of you know, I am particular about accuracy (pedantic maybe :rolleyes: ) but I do try to ensure accuracy is maintained in the model and real worlds. Some people don’t like it and couldn’t care less, but ignorance of the facts is no excuse!