I think that Austers look great no matter what the colour scheme is. However for visibility in the air perhaps camouflage would not be best even with invasion stripes. 🙂

I quite agree. There are already far too many Austers repainted in military colours. Every year yet another owner decides to retro their aircraft back to its military camouflage, which is a pity. I can understand AOP.9s being camouflaged as there were very few that weren’t but other owners often seem to fail to reach the superb standards of Richard and the Eggesford Group when it comes to accurately restoring military Austers. There’s nothing worse that a fully converted BEAGLE Terrier wearing camouflage and its original military serial masquerading as an old military Auster,without being properly de-converted. If the aircraft in question has a period 1940s-50s UK civil registration, there is nothing nicer than a smart civilian scheme such as G-AMMS,’GXU or ‘JYB (shown here) wear and with the Auster company twin-stripes trademark down the fuselage side.

Nooooo!

Airfix are little polythene bags with a cardboard header,
Moggy

During the poly bag era, the header was not cardboard, but printed paper that unfolded with the instructions inside.

There is some terrific stuff here, thanks to everyone for sharing them. The story of the fuselages at Aqaba is wonderful!
A few more from me.

Tut, tut, Steve….thread creep! These are MEAF and FEAF Beverleys and Argosies, not ‘Transport Command’! 😉

The glare panel does it’s job fine. The inaccuracy is the fact it should be a continuation of the grey top for that particular colour scheme. It’s not a problem to us, though I’m sure there will be one or two folks out there that just can’t live with it.

Regards

Rich

Presume you will get around to overpainting the anti-glare panel in the correct grey eventually? It would finish it off nicely (and accurately) if you can.

I also attended the Press Day on Wednesday and was very impressed to see the Shack in its new paint scheme for the first time, which is a first class job.To have it run its engines up was the icing on the cake and a wonderfully nostalgic experience to behold. Even the bomb doors (or ‘weapons doors’ to be pc) were opened as shown here.Just wondered when #2 engine will be back on line?

Here’s some more of that lovely orange dayglo,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I42lzNAUm8c

Hang on…*Red* Pelicans?

😀

Dare I say it, now they were a different shade of Dayglo altogether, specially mixed for the team!

Adrian. Interesting but irrelevant really. We know the blood red dayglo is not the same as the roundel red. Do you have swatches of the two different dayglo colours to compare?

Actually I think the Dayglo colour used has been the same all along, but they may have used different batches or photos may show it slightly differently in different lighting conditions. However well maintained it was, it would tend to fade slightly with each prolonged exposure, going to a slightly more orangish hue before being repainted once again. This whole issue is between ‘dayglo’ and ‘red’ and some people can’t tell the difference, which is made all the more confusing when different makes of film try to portray this.
I think we have all exhausted this subject ad-infinitum, so let’s move on.

Sorry Pagen01, I have no info on the thimble-nosed SP.