In the early 90’s as a student of my high school’s aerospace class we did some work at Mountainview. We spent the afternoons over a few weeks in the middle of winter dismantling parts off of the Auster that is now on display in the airpark at CFB Trenton.

We did this at the same time they were applying new fabric and dope to the air cadet Schweizer Gliders at the other end of the hanger!

Looking back I know that we probably made a quite a mess of that little bird!

They had originally planned to display the Auster roughly where the CF-5 in now along the south side of the 401 in Trenton. Considering that they know park it under a wing of the Argus in the winter, it wouldn’t have lasted there very long. I hope they bring it inside soon.

Regards,

Peter,

I was thinking of matt black. I’m still using primer at the moment, haven’t painted anything yet.

I would like to be accurate if I could. Just want to see if I might be heading in the right direction or not.

I have to start painting a few components of my FN121 turret sometime soon.

Can anyone tell me what the proper black plaint colour was used on RCAF/RAF turrets? Is it the same black as on the exterior of the aircraft?

Regards,

Sounds pretty neat! Do you have anymore pictures of the guns?

Authentic guns always look better, but there is no hassle to owning machine guns made of wood and pepper shakers!

I was thinking FN120/121. When I read this thread on the weekend there were a few more pictures. One picture showed the greenish cushion with four snap studs on the bottom, but the distance from the edges of the cushion to the snap studs looked greater than those on the seat of the FN121.