Ossington 2 Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 ISTR that the scabbed-on cable ducts were made of fibreglass and then painted silver. Is this so? Or were they actually metal and YZC primed first? Got a colour conundrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweeky Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 I'm 99% the cable ducts were metal they had to cut off once the fixings had been removed, Sealed with PRC this is why they were cut off and cleaned up ready for refit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 I can't say what materiel they are made of, but I suspect they are metal. I do know they appear to be part of the airframe that was painted rather than natural metal. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossington 2 Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 Thanks for that photo! Rick click/save as/open up in paint/flip horizontal/then file. I have a picture that prompted the question, but my imgur mo-jo has died, so I can't post it here, but in B&W the colour is not white or silver. If it isn't fibreglass, and the above quote suggests that's so, then primer YZC looks to be the way to go. Thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 @canberra kid, John, Great detail photo! One question- was the factory erk who applied the stencils dyslexic or was the negative reversed? (Just yankin' your chain, my friend!) Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canberra kid Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 1 minute ago, 72modeler said: @canberra kid, John, Great detail photo! One question- was the factory erk who applied the stencils dyslexic or was the negative reversed? (Just yankin' your chain, my friend!) Mike I hadn't spotted that Mike until I'd posted it, but being dyslexic myself, it's not always obvious. The biggest back to front mix up I've seen was on am USAFE T.33, the wing topside Stars and Bars were facing the wrong way! Back to the Lightning, to me it looks like the colour of the paint is something like Coroguard? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
72modeler Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 2 hours ago, canberra kid said: Back to the Lightning, to me it looks like the colour of the paint is something like Coroguard? Sure looks very close to that! Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tweeky Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Quote One question- was the factory erk who applied the stencils dyslexic or was the negative reversed Deliberately done to confuse the enemy if one was captured. In the early 80's we had a jet come back from from a full repaint (XR770 first all light grey Lightning) all the port side stencils had been replicated on the STBD side confused a few initially. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 They are metal is you look here; 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bedders Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Looks like the rearmost stencil visible is in Arabic. But even this way round I can't read it... Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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