ETPS Viscount

[alfie]

Hi

Can anyone help me answer a query, please?

Have you any info on the Viscount in ETPS service? I am particularly looking for the underside colour, as in the photos I have seen it looks like Duck Egg Blue/Sky type S, but they may have been influenced by blue sky or cloud reflections.

Just in case you're wondering, ETPS = Empire Test Pilot School. I know the scheme is the subject of a S&M decal sheet for the Glencoe kit - if anyone's got a copy handy to look at the instruction sheet?

TIA Alfie

[sanguin]

Alfie,
Having neither kit nor sheet I googled.
A couple of links that indicate that in the early ETPS scheme the wings and lower fuselage were initially high speed silver:
www.abpic.co.uk/search.php?q=Vickers%20Viscount%20745&u=type
and:
www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1035507/

then later light aircraft grey:
www.airfighters.com/photo/50383/M/UK-ETPS/Vickers-Viscount-744/XR801/

and here is another modellers interpretation:
www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=37027&st=0&p=391849&#entry391849

I hope this is of some help.
The final colour scheme was the raspberry ripple so beloved of masking tape enthusiasts.....
forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=16694&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

John

[alfie]

I've received this response after my request for information was seen in the latest Magazine:

They were painted light aircraft grey, with roundel red & roundel blue trim on white uppersurfaces (fuselage only.) The wings were light aircraft grey top & bottom.

The aircraft were also highly polished at all times.

Regards, Alfie