Classic British Flight Sim

Many thanks guys for some great ideas and help, I will certainly look into all this
Cheers Tony

For me the Landor design represented the best reflection of Britishness by means of cliché.
Calm, elegant, classic yet timeless - a flying ambassdor of British brand values found at brands such as Jaguar, Rover or Burberry.

Cheers,

Nick

Landor .......midnight blue and grey...........dull and depressing a truly ghastly livery

Funny how many FS painters and plastic modellers make Landor the brighter blue of the earlier BA and the grey much lighter or even white..a natural tendency to move away form the dreary reality of the awfulness of the rear object I guess

Garry Russell wrote:Landor .......midnight blue and grey...........dull and depressing a truly ghastly livery

Funny how many FS painters and plastic modellers make Landor the brighter blue of the earlier BA and the grey much lighter or even white..a natural tendency to move away form the dreary reality of the awfulness of the rear object I guess

I agree Garry. Landor may have seemed timeless at the time, but I think it's dated terribly.

I thought it ghastly at the time

Funny though how it never photographed correctly.all my prints came out with it almost white

A lot of folks that love Landor never saw it in real life and don't realise how dark the grey was...it tended to bleach but initially they use white for the door surrounds

It was a fad of the time.United did similar and BMA went to the blue roof and later darkened that down with a dark grey bottom.

Really depressing times to be surrounded by all that. I guess it was a sort of rebellion form the tendency to go all white

Okay, that's my 2nd livery faux-pas within days here...

But I'll be standing tall. When I was a child I lived close to LSZH and we spent a lot of time at the fence there.
Most majestic appearances for me certainly were BA's 757 and Royal Jordanian's TriStar.

But you may well call me a dark type...

All the best,

Nick

You are intitles to you opinion Nick......make as many faux pas as you want

I suppose if that was 'your time' It looks a bit different

It replaced a much brighter livery and to me the change exaggerated the effect.

Might have been different had it been a new scheme bu it was a modified version with everything darkened down and a few detail changes which automatically causes a comparison.

With Royal Jordanian I preferred the earlier, red and gold livery

I've often wondered why the CAA asked Air UK to add more white yet BMA was left as was and eventually go worse

Landor was also not a very high viz livery either.

I think I'm one of the few that likes Landor too. Anything that can make a 747 look good can't be all bad

ATB

DaveB

Distinguished I call it.. distinguished

ATB

DaveB