First to say, GuineaPig was right, Adrian used exclusive drop D on the Goldtop and standard E on the Stratocaster for Bruce Dickinson stuff on AOB tour, and on CW tour he used Goldtop in E tuning, Jackson KV1 in drop D and Dean Baby ML also in drop D. Read it in the interview.
Next, i think we should really do Dave's Axes thingie, cause i ran into several facts from two very nice sources : Ross Halfin photos and Live After Death DVD!
Note to moderators : these are low-res photos, free to view from Halfin's website, and it's a direct link, thus no violation.
Here's a Lado custom Stratocaster of Dave's, World Slavery Tour;
On the Nuts&Bolts section of the LAD DVD, there are 11 guitars listed in Murray's gear :
'57 Fender Stratocaster, black with white pickguard - played constantly in the '80s, retired in the 1990, as explained in recent article that Forostar posted.
'64 Fender Stratocaster, black - with Gibson-alike pickup plates, played alot in the Di'Anno era, check out the Woman In Uniform promo.
Source Fender Stratocaster, white - also early years guitar, and by the look of it, the white Strat on RiR III doesn't look "new", so it might be the same axe.
It also lists two Ibanez Roadstars (pics needed!), Dean V (POM tour stuff, pics later), two Lado Strats (the other one is a bit earlier in this topic), two Gibson SGs (one Junior and one Standard, pics later). Also, check this out;
http://www.artistwd.com/joyzine/music/maiden/maiden.php
Q: I hear that one of your guitars belonged to Paul Kossof. How did you come about owning it?
DAVE: I bought it from an ad in the papers. [Other than that, I have] three Fender Stratocasters and an Ibenez Destroyer I picked up on tour.
The Paul Kossof guitar is the '57 Strat, of course. The other two are the full black and the full white one, any info about the third? Anyways, later on that tour he must have picked Roadstars, Gibsons and Dean V, and Lados before the World Slavery Tour. Some ESPs and atleast one Jackson Strat, and probably another (n) Fenders until this day. So we have some stuff to begin with.
Back to Adrian, Nuts&Bolts on the DVD lists stuff we already know, but there are two things : Hamer Scarab is there, so even if there's no pic, that guitar is confirmed, and the black Charvel Stratocaster which can be seen on Wasted Years promo was available for the World Slavery Tour, so that guitar was acquired before i presumed (i pointed out to SIT era).
Two more Jacksons, i mentioned one earlier, the unlabeled one from SSOASS era;
And this one;
Look again, it's not the SIT and SSOASS fame white-black Jackson. This one has a white-painted headstock, while the famed one has "unpainted", natural-wood colour headstock.
So it looks like Maiden were a big users of Lado in the '84-'85. Smith had two Earths, Murray had two custom Strats, and Harris had two Lado basses (the signature Unicorn and the Super Falcon, again sourced by N&B section of the DVD). They dropped them right after that tour, don't know why...Adrian has at least two more, the Laser and the white custom Strat, first used very rarely on the SSOASS tour, second never used AFAIK. By the looks of it, and by the fact that it isn't listed in World Slavery Tour equipment, it seems to have it's roots in '86-'88 period.
@Ardius, seems like H used sunburst Strat and Goldtop exclusively in the mid-'90s, both for Psycho Motel and for AOB tour. Goldtop remained constant throughout the '90s, he played white-black Jackson Strat with ASAP and Untouchables, then KV1 for the CW tour. At least live, he used five guitars in the '90s, the fifth being Dean Baby ML.
BTW, does anyone have more info about the "Skeleton Crew" project of his?