The kit is an old, old 1/72 scale Airfix, reissued several times, but the mouldings for the wings have "1959" on the inside. This type of Auster first flew in 1945, its "AOP" name means 'Air Observation Post', and they did serve the RAF during the Malayan Emergency, and elsewhere. A specially fitted out Auster also worked in Antarctica in the 50s, hence the simple diorama, done by photoshopping in a suitably Antarctic looking background (while my Auster sits on a home-made snowfield made from bicarb soda, white acrylic paint and PVA glue).
The box artwork has the plane as yellow, but several model builders online insist the proper Antarctic colour is orange, while the plane which is now in a museum somewhere in the UK was painted yellow upon its return from Antarctica. I've painted too many yellow planes of late, and I did have half a can of Tamiya orange to use up, so I'm in the "Orange Austers for Antarctica" camp for very ordinary reasons.
Oodles of teeny tiny decals this time round, lots of work with toothpick and tweezers ...