Now, THAT is how you paint a Lancaster! Absolutely beautiful.

The facebook updates seem to have dried up- keeping the finished job under wraps, I guess..?

Sadly- and at the risk of sounding like the roundel police- I do think a ball was dropped here; countless aircraft have been painted with the correct dull wartime markings; there’s simply no excuse for getting that wrong.

(Cue people saying that I’m welcome to paint my Lancaster how I want, etc, LOL ;))

I queried the hard-edged camouflage at the time on one of the facebook postings; it’s a shame, as along with the bright shiny markings, it makes the final effect look a bit…well, Airfix. It still looks a lot better than it did previously, though.

Well, that’s quite a different approach, but if it works for them and keeps the costs sensible each winter and keeps the airframe moving on the ground during the season, then good for them.

I’m still surprised that she doesn’t seem to have been further broken down into the separate sections etc, if this was the big pre-flight strip? Else, why repaint it now if that job remained for the future? It looks good in the primer, though there’s no doped strips covering the fuselage joints etc..?

From memory I remember a BBMF maintenance article from something like 88/89; I remember it particularly because the colour photos all suffered from Hendon syndrome and had a terrible green cast over them!

I would have thought that any current vintage jet operator would do better to keep their opinions to themselves at this juncture, and concentrate instead on making sure that their own aircraft can now meet the new safety requirements, rather than making comments online that are already stirring up further unhelpful speculation etc on forums.