I was interested in a picture of the Hornet just simply to ascertain whether the damage was repairable (as I have some small knowledge in this area).
I think your Whitley is in fact one of the wooden pre-fab wartime Penguin kits which had some small parts (props wheels and engines) in plastic (as opposed to the pre-war injected acetate resin kits). I have a Barracuda from this wartime utility range. The use of u/s light bulbs for gun turrets was one of the tips out of Aeromodeller during the war years.
I think that your Tiger was about the last model H.J. finished. He was a prolific modeler since the 1930s.
John
Hi TT
Sorry but I missed your post in between my own posts. I’m convinced that the Aeropoxy kit is another “borrowing” of my original Vac kit which later had injected wings.
It seems to be virtually unknown that the Fox top centre section is not only wider but it also tapers from front to back with the rear spar being wider than the front spar. This is how they were able to use the Tiger Moth wings with their differing root angles.The only change being the metal fitting on the lower wing rear spar. Some Foxes (mainly the Speed model) have a fairing between the lower wing root and the fuselage.
The Fox centre section/tank/struts came as a pre assembled item and even the repair manual General Layout drawings misleadingly show a parallel centre section, so all of the models/ drawings are wrong (including my old 35 years old kit).
The pale blue lines on the photo represent an incorrect parallel centre section, the other lines show what is actually the case. Note how the rear vertical (Red) struts diverge and are not parallel to the front (Blue) ones.
The museum models colour schemes look authentic. However the Yellow/ Black Moth appears to have the National Flying Services logo on the fuselage nose. If so I believe that the Yellow should be Orange.
John
My initial thoughts were also a very pale Blue with Silver lettering. I also thought of a pale Yellow with white letters. Pre-war light aircraft and their colours are one of my great interests and these colours are so often unrecorded. In fact I have a letter from the late doyen of civil aircraft historians, the late A. J. Jackson in which he states “we didn’t much bother about colours”.
In this photo the Tiger has a Yellow fuselage with Silver wings, White letters on the fuselage and Yellow on the Wings. The Auster behind has a pale Blue fuselage.
John
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