Oh Mike, your "sandbagger" account is gone? I was confused for a moment - welcome, Mr. Norris! 
Are you sure with the wood color on side panels/cockpit decking?
If I look on your picture of the first posting, it looks for me grey as the front too:
See also the top picture Windsock International Vol14/4 page 19.
That is also what the manual of my 1/48 kit says.
May be you had a Camel in mind?
It will be interesting, how the linen decals will look like, never seen that in real.
Cheers,
Frank
Hi Frank,
I thought I'd change to my name rather than my 'sandbagger' aka - it seems to be a trend now on some other forums I visit.
Yeah, I fell into the 'Camel' trap with the panel covering.
It's always difficult to figure out exactly what colours are evident in most WW1 monochrome photographs, but on revisiting what shots I do have, it seems pretty obvious the panels and decking were grey.
I may over spray the wood effect to give a wood texture showing through.
If not I'll strip it back and re-colour, which will be easier as the oil paints I use are water based, so can be removed with water and cotton buds (provided they haven't been sealed over).
Thanks for pointing that out, before I went too far,
Mike
