BEA Flying Jack

[Garry Russell]

At last

A record of someone else saying what I've been saying for years and falling on deaf ears

The livery was green not blue

Pity it's taken years fo me to find his post

http://www.wings900.com/vb/1-400-scale- ... ssics.html

[DaveB]

Yes indeed. The pics of ZK at Manchester show the FJ livery in it's correct colour.. Neil got the colour plate from BA archives and had it reproduced. Unfortunately, I have a number of the Aero Classics models (mostly Vanguards) and they all show FJ rather more blue than green

EDIT.. here ya go


I have others but these were already up

ATB
DaveB

[Garry Russell]

Most decal are wrong....the Airfix issue was correct (the model thought was awful), but the colour was right. In the first issue the fin Jack was too big to fit the fin ans they had the transfers made 1/144 scale but the models fin and rudder was too small...but the color was right

Unfortunately people think of the decal manufacturers as Gods and if they say it was yellow with green spots...it was.

The folk argue their case with pics with are rarely accurate especially from that time.

Name of the colour was Peacock Green....it did tend to turn bluish but that was a mottled patchy faded Matt dark blue (the yellow came out) with a purple tinge and never a pure blue of any hue in reality.

[DaveB]

Agreed It's a darned difficult colour to pic even when new (and the green was new on those shots) and many.. sadly the majority of phots show it to be decidedly more blue through age, under-exposure.. any number of reasons. Blue looks nice but Peacock Green as new was a fine colour

ATB
DaveB

[Tomliner]

Looks blue to me. EricT

[Garry Russell]

Should've gone to Specsavers

[DaveB]

ATB
DaveB

[MALTBY D]

Interesting this.
I wouldn't ever describe that colour as 'green' when there's so much blue in it.

At its greenest, it's bluey green.
At its bluest it's greeny blue.


Anyone care to pick their nearest match ?..


I'd say 2 or 4, probably 4.

DM

[Garry Russell]

#1.5

[DaveB]

At its greenest, it's bluey green.
At its bluest it's greeny blue.

While I admit it's not the greenest of greens I've ever seen, neither is it the overwhelming blue it's often shown as being. On the Aero Classics Vanguards.. you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference between BEAFJ and BACargo (I can't as it happens) and in reality, the two colours are miles apart It is a very distinctive colour appearing more green in bright sunlight and more blue in shaded areas

ATB
DaveB