Aha, all becomes clear. That will teach me to not look closer (both at your post name and the serial on that T.22!) That must have been fun supervising the T.22 paint – got any pics perchance of the final thing, or did it only appear in magazines as you hinted might be the case.

Cheers to Pagen01 and Lee Howard for the gloss and Flag Officers Green info, very useful indeed. Anyone have links or pics of the other ‘barge’ a/c somewhere, preferably in colour? I’d love to see how the other types looked.

Cracking thread here, I’ve just come in late, but some great discussion here and very useful too, as I’m building the Sea Hawk for FS2004 at the mo and am about to do WV908 as she stands today.

One thing I’d like to get opinions on is the level of gloss finish FAA Sea Hawks were maintained with. I’ve set mine to something just over semi-gloss, but some folks have commented this is too shiny. Would this have been a case of they started off glossy but gradually wore down to a low-semi gloss/borderline matt over the years? I have some Dutch FGA.50s and Mk.101s that looked more matt, given that they were handed over in the latter years of the type’s life.

For the record, I am definitely a EDSG/Sky fan as well. One final question: I have painted one FGA.6 up in the green/white ‘Admiral’s barge’ scheme but does anyone know the significance of the green? I have seen it referred to as ‘Flag Officer Green’ but wondered about this. Does anyone have an accurate swatch for it as I guessed mine off colour photos.

You can see my work in progress here:
http://www.nazcastudios.com/sea-hawk

Cheers all,

Steve

p.s. if you blokes are after a nice-looking Suez scheme, pay a visit to the Midland Air Museum at Baginton – they have a lovely FGA.6 in said scheme that you can sit in (WV797).

The Black/Grey one flew over the Co-Op in St Ives, Cambs about 1030ish on Saturday

You lucky devil Pen Pusher, I’m an ex – St. Ivian myself, and would dearly love to have seen it fly over the co-op. I remember the good old days of watching them up Old Ramsey Road, and now rely on my parents for any odd sighting these days.

Steve

Cheers Les, and thanks also to everyone else that responded. I’ll get back to everyone properly tonight, but it looks like I have some good material here.

Best,

Steve

Hmm, well Les, I see you have been promoted to pilot! Congrats sir! :p

Steve, I see you do a 32SQN B6 circa 1966 any chance of a all silver 32Sqn cyprus 1959 or a bassingborne 35Sqn… only ask coz my father flew B2 with 32 and 35 sqn in the 1950’s

regards

Cliff

Here you go, Cliff – a 32 Sqn bird that was outfitted at Weston Zoyland before heading out to Akrotiri in 1957…should be available for download sometime this week.

Steve

nazca_steve….can you recommend any good fs2004 canberra cockpits?
I’m after B2 mainly…..and the ones i’ve tried before are a bit naff.

cheers

Well I can try, although it depends on what you’ve tried before. The only one I know about is the B.2 cockpit that came with the Bill Holker B.2 model. This one has a virtual cockpit too, but I think uses the Alphasim one for the static version (which I thought was alright, but maybe you know better).

if anyone else knows of cockpit alternatives, please join in. Cheers,

Steve