I'm the same. Don't ask me to choose a good colour when matching the drapes with the walls... ...and here we were helping AR with the cockpit green! :lol:
Oh lovey, it's just soooooo difficult :becky: I think Adrian is fully aware of our ramblings. He's very forgiving
Thanks, I thought there must be a way of enlarging the thumbnails after the first click, otherwise it would have been inferior to the system we had before. I wonder if my wife would let me paint the lounge in Matt Cockpit Green? Or if I called it zinc chromate, would she be more impressed? But she needn't worry, she knows I don't do any decorating until the old stuff is seriously flaking off.
Who is this Matt Cockpit we keep talking about... Hmm, AR, I reckon if you called it Interior Green she might be more accepting. However, you could also tell her that you have to use it as an undercoat so the top coat doesn't flake off thereby diminishing any chance of doing more decorating. However, you then decide to "spit the dummy" and not do any more decorating conveniently after you have finished the "undercoat"!
Why not? As was said in the wheel wells thread, the colour apparently had a calming effect... I ask you, what's not to love about interior green, cockpit green or zinc chromate?!
She once told me off for wearing a green pullover and grey trousers. Apparently green and grey "don't go together". I pointed out that although I hadn't set out to emulate post-1942 standard RAF camouflage, the RAF presumably didn't have a problem with whether it "went together". :mad2: Again, this argument, though perfectly logical and reasonable to me, made no impression. But can you imagine Adolf Galland being confronted by a Spitfire decked out in the lastest Sea Grey and Dark Green, exclaiming "Mein Gott! Das is ein Crime of Fashion! It is doing my head in!" and high-tailing it for home? :cry_smile: Perhaps I'll settle for painting the bannisters in PC10 (the Brown dope used on British aircraft in WW1). :heh:
Perfectly logical and reasonable to me too, AR. Certainly the attire would have looked the part in the countryside, at the coast or out to sea... Galland certainly would not have wanted a "squadron of Spitfires" if the colours weren't right especially if he was keen to add a yellow nose. I get told off for dark socks with sneakers. Most of the time I don't even realise/care that I'm doing it.
Though the RM aren't forthcoming about the models/inspirations for the stamps, I wonder whether the air-gunner is based on Sgt Lynch? Sgt LO Lynch from Jamaica, winner of the Air Gunner's Trophy for 1944 standing by the rear gun turret of a Lancaster bomber, his right hand resting on the barrel of one of the four machine guns.
A biog of Sgt Lynch from our friends at caribbeanaircrew-ww2.com: Caribbean aircrew in the RAF during WW2 » Blog Archive » Lincoln Lynch
Here's a picture of my father and some of his fellow trainees at 9 B&G school 1940. Gives you a good idea of their flight clothing.
