I once heard a story about a chap from the owners who turned up at a paint contractor's premises to inspect a repainted airliner tailfin. Asked if he wanted a ladder he replied, "No thanks, I'll just climb up the paint runs."

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Northwing


Sad but oh so true,

you will notice up close the larger the Aircraft the more imperfections there are.

Time is of the essence while these large aircraft are on the ground, but should not be an excuse
but still the finished article should look a lot better than they sometimes do

The main areas to look good are the areas around pax doors in which the passengers use to board and depart.

Its common knowledge if it is not at eye level they will try to get away with it, which is totally wrong considering a 757 strip and repaint can cost in the region of 50-60 k or more??

Look for God's sake just give me a bucket of pretty emulsion and a roller and I'll paint the damn thing myself!

Oh yeh,
a person of many talents ???
jack of all trades master of none

I'll have you know I can land a flightsim Messerschmitt (and spell one too) almost all the time (well, mostly). And I can decorate a room. And I used to make a not bad job of painting airfix models, so it can be done- without running to 3 pages.

Getting back ON TOPIC, here's an interesting webpage: http://www.advanced-airbrush.com.au/artintheair.shtml

Alternatively, take your aircraft down to the Heathrow Pre School Playgroup, and leave it with them with their crayons and poster paint for a day - which is what I believe British Airways did a few years ago with the tail designs.... :E :p

Now a slightly more on-topic comment about the BA tailfins (sorry niknak !) is that when they first came out I'm sure they were described as not being paint at all but done with preprinted adhesive vinyls. Among the benefits described was the ease of changing them compared to paint.

However after the livery's acrimonious demise they seem to have been left around for years, only disappearing on a major check, strip and repaint. There are still several about. So what was the story ? Were they harder to change than described ? Did some people still have a soft spot for them ? Of course the current BA livery is not a different one, just one of the tailfin designs universally applied.

painting aircraft
 

There was many new designs covering various places from around the world

Then they decided to keep just a few
ie pool pottery design
tartan design, and i few more of which i cant remember the designs.

They didnt go down to well so as and when the aircraft go for paint they change them

So we were told

WHBM- Ayling liked them. In fact he was the only one. I found them not unattractive, but they palled quickly. Then you realised what a branding disaster they were. Trouble is a repaint is expensive and BA had bigtime debt, so they stayed. The ground vehicles still have the scheme and it's good to be reminded how truly awful it was. An industrial disaster by the worst CE BA has ever had! And haven't they made him a Lord? God help us!