A Trident for the office!

[Garry Russell]

:doho: Sri Dave :-( with you now

Garry

[DaveB]

No prob amigo ;-) I've had too many of those moments myself today :roll: :brick: As I said in the first post, I quite like the 'out of service' font.. it kinda looks right unlike the 'actual' more squared font

Square Trident Two (BEARS)
http://www.airliners.net/photo/BEA---Br ... 1181499/L/

Square T2 for BEAFJ - Looks ok on FJ
http://www.airliners.net/photo/BEA---Br ... 0288205/L/

Serif font for BA
http://www.airliners.net/photo/British- ... 0604186/L/

FB at Duxford is painted RS but with BA T2 titles on the nacelle which works fine for me whether it's right or not! This is another example of the old saying 'Don't believe what you see in museums'.. even one as estemed as Duxford ;-) I think the only reason EP and A4O (and SYD) are right at Brooklands is because they are as they flew in and have only suffered touch ups every now and again!

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Originally FB was not that good when first repainted but gradually it was corrected.

Nothing major just the little details that made it not quite right

It's always a shame when a museum piece does get repainted as the paint it'self it a very large part of the visual and it seems a shame to have to cover up the real stuff....but of course it would fade away to almost nothing as with the Cambrian livery WF was in at Dux.

At least if they paint it wrong or not, it is at least protecting it and it can always be redone

Garry

[ianhind]

Looking at the piccies that DaveB posted, "Trident two" is wrong on red square. It should be "Trident Two".

So Garry, pedants unite!

Ian

[DaveB]

It's ALL in the detail mate ;-) This all came to light on the original DM Tri2 model. I mean.. who, other than our Garry, notices things like fonts! We'd run the model in FS2002 for as long as was practicable and DM sent it to MKJ for 'approval'.. (we'd had some additional info off him so it seemed rude not to show him 'what was what') and out it came. DM changed the font towit I immediately said 'It's Wrong' (I wasn't a spotter in those days you understand) DM sent me the content of Max's email and bless my soul.. how right he was! :o Logically.. a serif font on the nacelle matches the serif on the fuse but hey.. who the heck notices that sort of thing (other than our Garry of course)

In his defense.. I should have said that the nacelle font was incorrect for that type of Trident (any type of Trident) 'in that livery' ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

Also

The Square doesn't look square :think:

Garry

[John]

I think I'll stick to flying it in one of these two schemes when it;s released!





Kind regards

John

[petermcleland]

Not a Two but this Three has Sans-Serif and upper case T for Three and I'm sure the fonts were standard across the One, Two and Three fleets:-

[petermcleland]

Whoops!...Just found this lower case t for three:-



So obviously it varied in a rather complex way as the liveries changed

[Garry Russell]

Hi Peter

The titles were standard font across the fleet the only variation being the 1C fleet were just 'Trident'

No sure about the two 1E's have have a pic somewhere

It was different on BA.....we are just on BEA here so youre were OK first time.

Garry