The Bluebird Project

White

Mike the attention to this detail is admirable. that photo of the post-accident sponsons at the slipway convinces me they were white in 1966. Other colours in that photo look reasonably natural. Sampling that photo in CMYK gives 10% yellow. The photo of the newly-painted roundel gives 45% Yellow - a...

The photo of the two sponsons after the accident available from Mirrorpix shows a pure white. Occam's Razor Signwriter presumably asked to paint infinity/Lloyds in black on white. or was he specifically asked to paint it black on 'off white' as you are now applying the graphics, did you find any tra...

Just a thought for all the modellers out there. I would be happy to open the workshop on a Sunday on our day off if a group of you wanted to get organised to visit. You could measure and photograph and I could talk you through all the shapes that modellers get wrong most of the time. Maybe our chie...

a mind bogglo combinaire, as Stanley Unwin used to say

Some of the paintwork executed by really skilled signwriters and coach painters can be smooth as glass, even though brush-painted. Real craftsmen. not only that, they also knew how to draw beautifully proportioned lettering. As you say, usually in one smooth flowing movement. Not like the computer-g...

The photo in Neil Sheppard's book shows the signwriter on page 45. A traditional signwriter using signwriter's enamel paint. Almost certainly he would use the same white for all the white painting. Why wouldn't he? He needs to get the job done and make a profit. Unless the white roundel ground was s...

you could, if so inclined, run it by historic paint consultant Patrick Baty in London. On previous historic paint projects I've found his knowledge and microscopic analysis to be very helpful.

Interesting Pic of the day (28 Feb 2019) showing original K7 infinity roundel. Can you be sure it was 'off white' in 1966 and not white that has 'aged' during the last half century? My experience with white is the oil/varnish in the paint yellows with age. The original sign writer would probably hav...

Renegadenemo wrote: ↑Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:24 am

But to the youngsters of today Bluebird is all new and Campbell is just the bloke who died in it.

Not the youngsters I know