Ian: I will send you the colorful "zig-zag and roundel" decal, the "Maud" decal and the serial number for Maud. That's the easy one as neither Jeff nor I will be building it.
Jeff: I can give you "Blymp" plus all of the Black Flight
except Collishaw's N5492 "Black Maria," as that is the one I'll be building. However, according to the instruction booklet with Rowan's decals, Collishaw had
three "Black Marias:" N4592 as noted above, N533, discussed below, and
N5490 which he crashed at Droglandt on June 8th, 1917. He apparently did not accomplish too much on this a/c as he had taken it over a few days before he had his accident. That said, I'll send you the serial number for N5490 in case you want to build that a/c.
Now, I can send you the markings for Collishaw's N533 "Black Maria," but this a/c was one of six twin machine gun a/c and you will probably have quite a work load modifying the Roden triplane to take the two guns. I note in my WNW triplane instruction booklet that there are separate parts and fittings for this a/c (due to the two Vickers guns). I could send you the WNW parts but there is no guarantee that they would fit the Roden kit given, as you note, the differences in fuselages..
Ian: As Jeff is getting a fair number of decals for his build, you may wish to request some of the decals remaining on the sheet, less Collishaw's N5492. I'll only do Collishaw's a/c so no worries about being considered greedy, and I'd rather see them used as not. Let me know what you think!
