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Many thanks for your feedback Gents, great info as always.
Matt, I will do my best to get as acurate print or at least match you your colour card.
Hilly
G’day Gents, hope you are all safe & well and avoiding the dreaded COVID.
I sent the following messga eto a couple of you and copped a bounce back say my email was blocked due to spam content….whatever that means.
I request your advice please. My airframe (under resto) has returned from the paint shop but I am not sure the colour is correct, it is green but looks too light/bright. I get it that most of the frame will be hidden and so not important to some but as I am paying a shed load of money for the paint I would like to see it done correctly.
Do any of you have a colour code/name/recipe for the tube steel frame please?
Hilly
15 Feb 22
Great to hear from you Sam and thanks for your feedback on the wing. We will be getting into that in a couple of months. I am back in Wangaratta for a couple of weeks to get the “putting back together” part of the project started under the very keen eyes of Ron & Stuart Lee and Paul Mitchell at Alpine Air.
We collected the fuselage from the sandblaster/paint shop yesterday and loaded it into the rotisserie today. Ron’s fuse goes into the rotisserie as soon as mine is out.
I do have one question regarding RAF markings: does anyone have the dimensions and colour codes for the RAF SEAC roundels? We are a long way from painting them but want to get the paint ordered and delivered. We suspect the outer diameter equals the diameter of the circle of the star in the star & bars (they simply painted over the previous markings), it is the inner circle diameter we don’t know, nor what colour light blue it should be.
Till next time.
Latest Update
The new stringers and upper & lower fuselage frames have been primed & painted.
The new instrument panels have been cut ready for prime & paint.
The new radio mounts and radio power supply mounts have been manufactured and welded in place. New instrument panel uprights have also been manufacturerd and welded in.
VH_BFR Restoration Update July 2021
VH-BFR has been stripped and cleaned. The frame is ready for sandblasting and repainting when weather permits, priming and painting has been started on the light framework (wooden stringers are being replaced with aluminium).
Radio mounts have been manufacturered ready for weld fitment and the RCA radio system has been dropped into the crystal crackers to work their magic, lets hope we can get them working again.Mid January 2022.
Australian border restiction and closures have proved a challenge. Hopefully I will be back in Wangaratta in mid-February to start putting VH-BFR back together again.
G’day Matt,
I had to get a new data plate for VH-BFR (old one had gone missing in action years ago). I found Jerry Turner from
Nostalgic Reflections
P.O. Box 350
Veradale, Washington 99037
USAJerry Turner <jerry@nostalgicreflections.com>
http://nostalgicreflections.com/
Take care though, Jerry is very slow and not so cheap. We also had some probs with delivery of the finished product, international deliveries seem to be an issue. All of the problems aside we stuck with him and the final product was beautiful.
Hope that is helpful.
Hilly
