http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/

All drawings and most of the text copied from the Boston Warpaint book that I wrote and illustrated… uncredited, of course.

Richard J. Caruana

You’ve got a PM.

RJC

Check you PM Alex

Richard

Thread carefully were GR7s and GR9s are concerned!

When the Dark Sea Grey GR7s were delivered to 233OCU (20Sqn) towards the end of 1992 the ‘grey’ portion of the panel on the left of the Welsh cat remained unpainted, displaying the original camo colour. When the all-green scheme came into use that same panel remained unpainted and, therefore, was erroneously changed to green. In 1995 the markings were printed as a decal and the original ‘grey’ portion was printed as green and that is how it was carried on the unit’s Camo Grey GR9s and two-seaters.

To add to that, the original pale blue background of the Welsh Cat was, for some unknown reason, changed to white from the original pale blue. It was only in 2008 that Flt Lt Norman Roberson from 233OCU presented detailed documented research to his CO who in turn received permission on 21 September 2008 from AOC No.1 Group to have these markings returned to their original colours, work that had to be done whenever aircraft went into servicing or repainting.

Full details, photographs and my drawings illustrating such changes were published in Model Airplane International No. 54.

RJC

ZRX61

Cannot recognise the parade ground from that photo. Slanting roofs and chimney tops not quite part of the Malta scene… neither the high trees in the background. Must be somewhere else.

This is the parade ground as it appeared in 1878 (Illustrated London News – detail)

RJC