Tudor Wooden Model requires painting

[Mike6567]

I have an old wooden model of a Tudor 5 - 1/72 scale (possibly ex-travel agent) at present spray painted silver.
I would like to have it painted in BSAA colours.
Can anyone from pprune please recommend who could do this for me in the Heathrow - Watford area?

[evansb]

Collectors Aircraft Models in Hayes, Middx. offers a custom paint service. They have a showroom at Heathrow. Tel. 0208 754 7281. e-mail
[email protected]

[Mike6567]

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x167/mike6567_photos/PC130071.jpg

I have just worked out how to post a picture.
Here is a photo of the model before I sprayed it silver.
Thanks for the info evansb.

[GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU]

Looks like it was in BSAA colours before you sprayed it. It's interesting to compare the wing filet on the model against that on a full-size Tudor;

http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n131/Golf_Bravo_Zulu/Tudor2.jpg

Nonetheless, a very nice model and I'm desperately suppressing my envy.

[Mike6567]

Yes I bought the model on ebay several years ago. The painting wasn't very good so I stripped it and sprayed it silver.
Then I realised it was not so easy to repaint!
You are correct about the wing filet. I see G-AGSU (a Tudor 2) also had a different tail unit early in 1946. Didn't this aircraft crash at Woodford in August 1947?

[GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU]

You are right, G-AGSU was the Srs 2 Prototype and was, indeed, written off after an irrecoverable wing drop on 23 AUG 47. You are also right about the fin. If Mr Chadwick had a fault, perhaps it was over-optimism with regard to the directional stability of his aeroplanes. Fins, at the time, were also supposed to double as a Company Trademark! The wing filet also went through a number of evolutions as well. As originally designed, she looked:


http://www.flightglobal.com/imagearchive/Galleries/Photo%20Archive/Post%20War/images/FA_19126s.jpg