Theres a few shekles to be made selling plywood replica’s to anoraks 🙂 I’ve made a couple of P51 panels, but they ended up in aircraft instead of on my mantle 🙁

Does anyone know the specific colour details? The Federal Standard or British Standard number and nomenclature of the “dark grey” paint? In the photos it doesn’t appear to be terribly dark.

There’s a book out there that has all the *standard* Brit colours in it, used it to get the PR Blue for Dayton’s recon Spit many years ago. It had all the RAF colours in there, can’t remember if there was also RN colours, but I do remember it had “Post Office Red”.
Can’t remember the name of the damn book, I think Pete still has it down the hangar I’ll give him a call next week & ask what the title is. It’s not a very big book, maybe 20 pages & about 5x7in

One did receive an RN tail, but that was because it was U/S on deck and needed to be “hidden” when the Ark made a port visit to a country where the US was less than welcome. More details at home when I get there.

I’ve seen a pic of one that clearly has a roundal in the middle of the star & bar on the side 🙂

F-4’s cross decked on the Ark. However her catapaults were incompatable with the F-14 so I suspect it didnt happen.

And the ones that stayed overnight ended up with UK paint jobs on one side of em…. something about Royal Colonial Navy I think

Is that some kinda new fangled direction finder on top of the cockpit in the 2nd pic?

I was up on Grumpy’s wing one day when some guy asked if it was an Abermarle (sp?), I told him it was a B25 & he got a bit agitated & started arguing with me about it….

How about funny things ya see at airshows…..
Like the woman in the one piece VERY WHITE pantsuit outfit thing who was stood right behind TFC’s P47 when it was backed up to the fence line & fired up…..

Big crowd under the B52 wing using it as a sunshade when suddenly the bomb bay doors start to open…. people starting to look a bit unsettled.. edging away from the plane and then……

… a bath sponge falls out & blows along the ramp closely followed by some Colonial Air Force guy who was inside cleaning it up….

Are there any pitfalls in me doing this? Has anyone out here had any experiences of loaning stuff to museums?

Yeah & the place in questioned sold a bunch of it on Ebay, including skins from PA908, Merlin valve covers, R2800 cylinders, cams & carbs, fuselage skins from Stilletto etc….
Never got any of it back & the cops did **** about bringing the guy to justice

The main danger to people from mine is drowning from being licked to death 🙂