I would like to depict the 1955 British Antarctic Expedition in an oil painting, and seek some clarification that my fellow PPruners may be able to assist with.
The aircraft used at the time were Beaver and Auster in addition to Austers from NZ & Australia.
Airfix would have you believe that the Austers were all over yellow.
The RAF Museum at Cosford have an Auster Antarctic on display which is very much orange all over. The same aircraft was yellow when shown at the RAF 50th Anniversary at Abingdon.
I would like to think it unlikely that the RAF Museum got it wrong; but if they did, I do not want to compound the issue and rewrite history on canvas.
If anyone has any credible information or has in their collections photographs taken on the ice at the time, I would very much appreciate your input. I am also interested in the SnoCats which I can be reasonably certain of were orange, as there is an unrestored example at Wroughton Science Museum Collection.
