New 1/76 RAF vehicles

and in reality we had only repainted a fraction of the stuff to yellow before strike & RAF G went IRR green !! At Marham the paint shop was so overwhelmed in 74/5 so us lads in GEF special forces were doing our own resprays in a shed behind the old GSE section. There are some Humbrol blue greys- 79 and 96 but both are matt and niether is as I remember the colour

Aarrgghh - ! Hannants of Oulton Broad; a wonderland of models, accessories, paints & decals of many types, makes, scales and standards. A place that will make your wallet / credit card cringe in fear of abuse - !

PNK;71666 wrote:

I seem to recall someone saying that if a model was 100% accurate it wouldn't look right. Probably some truth in that. The size of rivets and panel joints on most models would look appalling if scaled back up

I have read that model cars are always made slightly wider, otherwise they look very odd. Hollywood always made the sets and props in cowboy films 7/8'ths size, so the cowboys always looked bigger.

ted wrote:

The RAF had many versions on the Bantam the first in aboput 1938, It is authentic my only comment is the dropsides are a little high. the flat platform versions were more common plus there were several dierent specialist box bodies

TED

we had 2 bantam dropside trucks in the green with yellow stripes livery on role equipment flight at Lyneham, they got replaced by 2 bedford TK [cl] 5 ton dropside trucks.