Fighter Collection Spit Mk.XVIII

I beleive the P47 fuselage is due back this month as well. My word, they are gonna have thier hands full!!!

somewhere…….

I have the vaguest memory (how true:D ) of reading somewhere that the larger aircraft i.e. Dakota, Gliders and their tugs had the stripes applied with yard brooms so I would think acuracy wouldnot have been very high on the list of priorities.

It may be in one of the Spitfire at war ian allen books, I’ve seen pictures of a MK VII Spitfire close up to show shrapnel damage, the D-day strips look like my kids did them….. I guess June 5th 1944, erks, brushes, fading day light, can’t seem the with slide rules and masking tape……… maybe I’ll add that Mark VII to the best looking spitfire thread….

Even if it doesn’t look perfect, I wouldn’t mind betting that the real thing would have looked far rougher. I think these stripes are for the Suez or Korean campaign or something (excuse my history!) but when you consider how many aircraft had to be painted up in the hours before D-Day there must have been wonky stripes all over the place. Does anybody know what sort of standard front-line paint jobs were like in real life?

Not that I would like to see deliberately bad paintwork on restored warbirds, though.

I have the vaguest memory (how true:D ) of reading somewhere that the larger aircraft i.e. Dakota, Gliders and their tugs had the stripes applied with yard brooms so I would think acuracy wouldnot have been very high on the list of priorities.

great kits

I have the Airfix 1/48th kit, and the old Matchbox 1/32 still to be done. No prizes for guessing which scheme they’ll both get!

Those big Matchboxes were great, I had the Dauntless, Spit, Venom and Lysander – all died a sad death as all plastic kits (well, mine did) as the glue dried etc.

Di-cast (cheat) for me now, other than a few rainy day plastics with my son… but you just reminded me of those, the Dauntless was great (just seen a di-cast 1/32 one of those as well)

well, it can’t be too long now!

This Spit looks great. The scheme is not dissimilar to that worn by 80 Squadron Spitfire Mk.24’s in Hong Kong. I made a 1/32 scale Airfix model of this as a kid, and it has survived into adult-hood simply because I liked the look of it!

I have the Airfix 1/48th kit, and the old Matchbox 1/32 still to be done. No prizes for guessing which scheme they’ll both get!

This Spit looks great. The scheme is not dissimilar to that worn by 80 Squadron Spitfire Mk.24’s in Hong Kong. I made a 1/32 scale Airfix model of this as a kid, and it has survived into adult-hood simply because I liked the look of it!

Nice shot – shows the ‘proper’ Ocean Grey to good effect too 🙂

Here is a pic i took of her on Tuesday

curlyboy

No! :p

*runs off to ask his daddy for money* :p 😀

anyone have £2million lying around they fancy giving me? lol

No! :p

that spit is my absolute favorite mark, 5 blade prob big rudder and without clipped wings, she looks amazing!!! *drools* anyone have £2million lying around they fancy giving me? lol

AND the Gladiator!

Getting there…!

SM969

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Can’t say I’ve noticed nit picking either, just enthusiastic questions.
This is a general question, what is the purpose of the yellow leading edges?

well it cant be a bad thing to keep them at bay!

Thanks for that MarkV, thought it was something to do with ident, don’t seem to see it applied on many post war types.

This is a general question, what is the purpose of the yellow leading edges?

Identifies an RAF aircraft in a head on situation (and stops you walking in to the wing at night).

Can’t say I’ve noticed nit picking either, just enthusiastic questions.
This is a general question, what is the purpose of the yellow leading edges?

well, i would assume engine runs are going to be done shortly. can’t wait to hear that griffon growl again.

It looks fantastic. Tell the nit pickers to go and buy their own planes!

I dont see too many ‘nit-pickers’ here – there is nothing wrong with asking polite questions about any scheme, its not beyond discussion. Yes, in this case the scheme was very thoroughly researched and several contributers to this thread were involved in that research and with providing detailed markings and colour information to TFC. They always take the research side of scheme application very seriously as has been shown in numerous superb restorations over many years.