Don,
No that's not Mike's either, His had a silver base and red and blue trim that was kind of integrated onto the wing from the fuselage and separate red striped on the front and aft fuselage sides.
Colors were Sig Silver, Miami Blue and Folkker Red.
Jim Pollock
Jim..
I was just razzin you...I took this shot with when Al Rabe and I knocked on Silhavy's motel room where he and his wife were unpacking all his toy airplanes...and this model is Silhavy's FAI Red Japanesseeee' tissued and clear coated Gypsy.
I then took a slide of Rabe holding the Gypsy and Silhavy holding Al's Bear Cat.
Jim flew the Red Gypsy that year...at that time the FAI model didn't have any test flights to speak of and was trimmed to his liking.
Beautiful light weight Gypsy and truly a work of art.