Crewe Model Show 27th Feb 2011

[72twink]

The old ones are always the best!

Which leads me onto "Typhoon Stripes" were they a field mod and rough or factory applied and percfect - which may explain why Beaumont could have his done from scratch.

[Eric Mc]

Most would have been "field applied" - to a greater or lesser degree of perfectness.

Any aircraft coming off production lines or coming out of Manitenance Units (MUs) at the appropriate time would have had "professionally" appl;ied stripes which would have been straighter.

[dr_gn]

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I'd like to see the completed finish on the 'worst example' picture. The lines look straight enough to me, an if you scaled them down 72 times they'd look *much* better than if you attempted them by hand on a model. Assuming the markings were touched in afterwards, and consider it looks like it *may* be a scrap or decoy airframe (no canopy, no aerial) , and that example actually starts to look pretty good in reality.