On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:01:30 +0100, Syke wrote
(in article ):

The brickwork and the Orange and Green of the Celtic Boss seem OK, as do
the yellow tips on the prop. What colour did you think the aircraft
was meant to be?

It was the colours of the roundel which caught my eye. They should be green
and orange but appear in the photograph as blue with a touch of green and
yellow with a touch of orange.

Have a look at this post-restoration photo of the same aircraft in 2005:

http://www.airpixbycaz.co.uk/cazsite.../part01/spit01
3.html

Or, if the wrap is a problem, try:

http://tinyurl.com/8mbanbx

Compare and contrast this with the picture Joseph posted. Admittedly, the
sun seems a little weaker in the 2005 picture but it's in essentially the
same position relative to the aircraft. Even allowing for differences in the
light and the inevitable technical variations in producing the jpegs, it
still looks to me like a seriously sun-damaged paint job.