Battle of Britain Spitfire models

Probably with a motor – but I’m thinking of doing an all-wood cartoon-scale Spitfire 22 as a PSS job…

Very nice. I’ll just stick to PSS gliders – less mess/headaches/noise! 😉

Is that the plan for your GWS Spitfire, or are you going to give it an engine, they can be flown either way… 🙂

605 Sqn Hurricane – Drem August 1940

OK it’s not a Spit but played just as much a part in the battle.

Very nice. I’ll just stick to PSS gliders – less mess/headaches/noise! 😉

how’s this?

Ahhh, thanks for that.

‘CD’ was, if I remember rightly, Michael Caine’s squadron’s codes in the movie.

I’m not at all sure that Michael Caine was in Dark Blue World.

Wasn’t that Tara Fitzgerald who said “I only wanted you to blow the bloody doors off?”

Moggy

My God….! 😮

http://www.rojasbazan.com/Gallery/19-10×7.htm

Dark Blue World

‘AI’ Spitfires, both originals and full size mock-ups, have the Czech National emblem.

‘CD’ Spitfires do not have the emblem.

Mark

Daz, does this one counts?

😉

You’re probably right.

Having said that, I’m sure the CD-coded Spits were meant to be playing an “English” squadron in the film. Don’t remember seeing any close-ups of the two in these markings to be able to verify…

Daz

The position of the Czech emblem on your model, below the windscreen, would suggest this was based on ‘Dark Blue World’ detail, with CD and AI codes used to marry in to BoB film footage.

Mark

Ahhh, thanks for that.

‘CD’ was, if I remember rightly, Michael Caine’s squadron’s codes in the movie.

TE356 BO-C

Low grade image, cropped from a magazine of the time.

Mark

Like looking for a needle in a stack of needles, then! :rolleyes:

Daz

In the extended massed taxiing sequence through the longish grass but probably not visible in the film.

Mark

That’s interesting, Mark! Presumably, given the markings on TE356, these never turned up in the final cut?

BoB Film – The Czechs.

The Czech national marking was applied to the top tank cover of at least one of the ‘taxiing’ Spitfires in the BoB film.

TE356 marked as BO-C.

Mark

Or were they built for Dark Blue World?? The second model (CD-E) has a Czech roundel on the fuselage just beneath the windscreen.

Considering I found the first one on, I think, a Czech site seems to suggest that.