A threesome of Macchis on the production line

[tor lives]

Nice picture! How did you come across it at the time?

A mate of mine was a SNCO I/C of a RAAF Photographic section and he discovered that shot and a whole lot of others that had never been seen before.
He got RAAF copyright permission to publish it, so I sent it to Stewart Wilson and, what do ya know, he used it.
In all fairness though the RAAF should have been credited for the photo cause it is theirs .
TOR

[AndrewDoppel]

As you can see the decalling has begun on the second Telstar Macchi and Roulettes Macchi. Unfortunately, the nose numbers for the Roulette Macchi are too tall by 3mm and the orange under the nose needs to be lowered a little (refer bottom image). No biggy for the re-paint on the orange but I'm going to have to get smaller nose numbers made up to replace the Hawkeye ones. The only other issue I have with the paint is somehow I have managed to chip the paint off the underside leading edge of the Telstar Macchi's starboard intake which will need a touch up.

[AndrewDoppel]

Thanks to David Edwards who found some suitable nose numbers in his stash that fit the bill, I was able to press on with decalling. Now I just need the pilot name template resized by Noel Barnes and I can just about wrap the Roulettes one up. The Telstar Macchi needs another lighter shooting star overlaid to fix the color. Here's how they look;