Warbirds
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this thought, but here goes.
There are many organisations and private owners who devote a vast amount of time and energy on restoring and then operating beautiful warbirds. They are now a global marvel in terms of the range of types and something that I could only dream of when I was young. All this sucks up a huge amount of money of course. It is great investment.
So, my question: Why it is that after spending unimaginable amounts of money and devoting so much time on getting a particular machine back to a perfect condition do these people then fall down with the final finish? There are countless such aircraft out there, probably the majority, that are not painted accurately. This inaccuracy ranges from wrong colours, wrong IDs, wrong operator markings to poorly researched and applied lettering and decals. It isn't so difficult to get this correct. Modellers do it so why can't aircraft restorers? The information on colour/tone, lettering size etc is all readily available too. I don't understand.
For me it is wonderful to see these machines in the air but it would be so much better to see them as they were, in accurate markings.
RR