Company 'house Colours' ?

[TsrJoe]

iv been thinking as to what colours were used by various manufacturers over the years as a recurrent theme, the reaon being iv a few civillian project types id like to finish in some sort of standardised scheme abiet with trim in a suitable company 'house colour', eg Handley Page HP.113, Hawker P.1128, etc. not wanting to finish them in an RAF. transport scheme !

some coming to mind being ...

Hawker, pale green (sky?)
Supermarine, lt. blue
Fairey, dk. blue
Westland
Avro
Handley Page
Vickers
English Electric, bright blue (deltic?)
Saunders Roe
Miles

im also wondering if the aircraft used as company hacks or couriers may also throw some light too???

cheers, Joe

[Supertom]

I dunno, but I've always wanted to do a "racing" jet in bright red with Bovril corporate logos on it

Mmmmm Bovril

[Brian da Basher]

Mmmmm Marmite!

Brian da Basher

[jcf]

Looking through 'Miles Aircraft since 1925' by Don L. Brown it appears that overall white or silver dope were the dominant colours on Miles non-military prototypes. Later aircraft unpainted metal, the M.100 Student was originally unpainted then went to a scheme of gloss black undersides and gloss white topsides.

White, silver dope and NMF seem to be the most common schemes for the Brit manufacturers with the occasional duck-egg green, light or dark blue, and carmine/red or yellow paint job popping up on individual aircraft.

Jon

[Jennings]

Boeing has had many variations of it's "house colors" scheme on various a/c over the years.  Off hand I can think of:

Airliners:

Cream with chocolate brown and dark green trim, or with just chocolate brown trim
White with broad red cheatline and red chevron on the tail
Blue belly, white above, with red and blue pinstripes curving up the tail
The current "wavy" scheme

Support a/c:

Sabre Mk.5:  Cream with dark green, white, & black trim
Sabre Mk.5:  White with red & black trim & a red chevron on the tail
T-33:  ditto above

J

[elmayerle]

I can't help but think that it'd be interesting to do some products of Boeing-St. Louis as demonstrators in House Colors.  I'm not too keen on the current wavy scheme, but the one before that has, IMHO, promise.

[Jennings]

You mean this scheme?

[Scooterman]

I can't help but think that it'd be interesting to do some products of Boeing-St. Louis as demonstrators in House Colors.  I'm not too keen on the current wavy scheme, but the one before that has, IMHO, promise.

Yeah Evan, where's those House T/AV-8Bs ?
^_^    

[elmayerle]

I can't help but think that it'd be interesting to do some products of Boeing-St. Louis as demonstrators in House Colors.  I'm not too keen on the current wavy scheme, but the one before that has, IMHO, promise.

Yeah Evan, where's those House T/AV-8Bs ?

Actually, they're TAV-8B+s, since they've got the radar nose.  There's only been a spot of work done so far, in both 1/48 and 1/72 (collecting all the necessary bits and pieces took a while), and I really need to revisit that art work now that I've got a source for the proper font.  Then I'll need to find some place that can print the necessary custom decals.

Jennings, yes, that color scheme.  Some years back, Nils and I did illustrations of AV-8B and TAV-8B+ demonstrators in taht color scheme for the Harrier SIG.  It strikes me that a two-seat F-15, a two-seat F-18, and a T-45 in that scheme would also look good.

[Mossie]

Handley Page painted the Victor prototype in a high speed silver with a black upper fuselage & red go faster stripe, very stylish.  Not sure if they could be called 'house colours' as the Short Sperrin used the same colours but different style, IIRC.

[Howard of Effingham]

Handley Page painted the Victor prototype in a high speed silver with a black upper fuselage & red go faster stripe, very stylish.  Not sure if they could be called 'house colours' as the Short Sperrin used the same colours but different style, IIRC.

btw, that scheme was chosen mossie by sir frederick handley page personally!  ^_^

i don't know if it was house colours but was a sorta symbol so i have read somewhere of the new elizabethan age.