Last Summer she was in the less than 100% perfect state that one normally finds a Mustang after a wheels up landing. Hopefully be the end of the year she will be back to normal flying condition. Right now she is somewhere in between the two.

and who give a **** what colour they are painted…

Jonathan

Quite a few people on this forum it seems

OK – who reversed the colours on the Spitfire?

I really am suprised that this Forum hasn’t rail against Red Bull considering how many times when someone has painted up a Spit or Mustang with the wrong markings. Or better yet how about the CAF Martell I recall that heated discussion

Rob, I see your point, but in my mind there is a distinction between deciding to paint a warbird in a military scheme and just getting it wrong (the CAF Martlet) and painting a warbird in a civil/promotional scheme. Breitling Fighters showed how you can please most parties (apart from the roundels on 434) :rolleyes:

I say the owners can paint it any colour they like. I follow that by saying I would like the chosen colour scheme to be the best and most accurate that can be done, regardless of whether its a military scheme or a civil one, just get it right!

I decided to have a look at the AMO’s. Appendix 1 of A664/42, in original form, has no reference to the ‘Temperate Land Scheme’ for day fighter based overseas, it refers only to the ‘Day Fighter Scheme’ or ‘Desert Scheme’. However, a subsequent amendment, issued on 8.10.42, reinstated the reference to ‘Temperate Land Scheme’ between the retained references to the other two schemes. So it was possible to make a choice withing AM rulings, confusing perhaps but this would explain the presence of both schemes.

Still learning.

Yes – I am saying I have never seen the late (C type as we call them) roundels used in combination with the Dark Green/Dark Earth ‘Temperate Land Scheme’. I would expect fighters that were not UK based to be in the ‘Temperate Land Scheme’ but, as they were based abroad, with Dark Green replaced by Middle Stone.

Daz your picture reference is the same aircraft in post no.5.