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Hi, Received my Aerovan this morning thanks to excellent

service by Hannants and Royal Mail. First impressions pretty

good. A rather oversized box but there are a lot

of parts packed in the bag. Good choice of colour schemes, my

only quibble is that I am not convinced that G-AJOI was white rather

than the  silver seen on almost all British registered Aerovans. Would

like to see evidence as I have seen a couple of pictures of this plane

and with rather poor resolution black and white photos from the

late forties could be white or silver.

Still amazed that we now have a good quality kit of this delightful

but largely forgotten plane!

Cheers, Paul

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Sounds good. I've got this model on my watch list with Hannants but didn't know it's now available. 

I think MikroMir really have spoilt us lately - an Argosy, Beverly, MD-11 and now this little beauty.

Thanks!!

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It was on my watchlist too, and I made the order the day it appeared as in stock. Always been a fan of Miles designs, and this one will look fine next to a Short Skyvan! Still a couple weeks til the box arrives here in the US, but once it does this one moves to the head of the production line. 

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As Paul says, there aren't many photos around of G-AJOI. There is one on the Air-Britain and Airliners.net website which does make the airframe look white but there is another image taken from the same negative in which the aircraft and the background are a much darker overall tone which to my eyes looks more natural. I would say that in this image the airframe looks to be darker than white.

A Google image search for "Sivewright Airways" brings up both of these versions of the image.

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Thanks for that Ivor, agree that the image of the aircraft on the ground seems to show G-AJOI as silver. The in flight image looks whitish but I think this is probably due to reflection. Will do my model silver in Sivewright markings.

Cheers, Paul

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