The Little World

Or should that be gray and gray? I’m sure there will be a fight amongst the readers about this, and I wish them all the bruises they deserve.

I am just grateful that this time I have selected the proper RCN colours…and have not been misled by colour call-outs from some instruction sheet. In this case I have settled for GSI Creos Mr Color paints – Dark Sea Grey and Light Gull Grey – and shall use them in future for all RCN aircraft in the classic two-tone scheme. The fact that the Turkey may clash with the Banshee and the little Piasecki helicopter is neither here nor there – museum aircraft often receive paint jobs that are at the whim of the restorers or the accountancy department.

Side note: I wonder how many times the staff in the Point Cook RAAF museum or our local Bull Creek RAAF museum are subject to aero-Anoraks who complain about the paint schemes on the displays? I’ll bet they have a big stick under the counter for just such occasions.

Do not be alarmed at the scabby-looking blob that seems to have taken over the cockpit of the Turkey. This is the plug that keeps the external paint from redecorating the seats or engine when I do the undercoating. It is composed of four different strains of blob; yellow UHU silicone tack, Blu-tak, green artists kneadable rubber from Faber, and a grey block of the same. They started out separately but as time goes they all seem to be melding into one organism. They pick up paint coatings and then digest them. I think they are related to a Hollywood monster of the 1950’s.

As long as the resultant mass does not slide around the workshop grunting*, I will keep using it to occlude openings and pick up small parts on the end of satay skewers

* That’s my job…