Trying to work out how best to try and post the pics - I don't think I have attachment rights and I am not sure whether I'd need to shrink the pics anyway. There's a dozen totalling around 15MB at the mo...anyone got any ideas?
Know what you mean WHBM and some of this paint looks like it might have been stirred with a screwdriver after it dried!
Here's one you mentioned in a 'more polished' era:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0936064/M/
FWIW I think the ones I'm looking at pre-dated the American Airlines fleet, and anyway, I guess that the composite bits might never have looked very 'finished' without paint at the best of times