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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
The workers are mostly retired mechanics. They can fix an F-16 blindfolded, but most of them have no clue what a S.P.A.D. 13 or a Fairey Fulmar was. Their expertise is limited to the real planes, and the model cases were neglected for a long time. So they needed a couple of guys who love to study the history.
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And that's exactly why you have catalogue references. They must have once known what each model was, at least when they accepted them in their collections. Hence they (usually) would have given each model a reference number in catalogue and painted it in the object, for example under the wing, a bit like you did.
The references make it possible for even a moron like me to check from the catalogue what each thing is and what we know about it, if I don't know already. They would also make it possible for me to actually work in the museum much easier. If some old hand told me: "bring me that model of Fairey Fulmar", I might look like this:
Whereas if he said: "Bring me that model AFM 173_4", I could do it on my first day at the job.
Don't mind me, I just love museum catalogues.
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(sorry for the poor quality of the pictures, but they were taken with a cheap camera twenty-one years ago).
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But they still show the beautiful model well enough, so what more can be asked? Nice shots.