Help with Spitfire project – Duxford 2005

Absolutely astounding stuff, my heartfelt thanks to all who have contributed.

In case anyone’s wondering on the model front, the kits etc. I will be using will most likely be as follows:

P7350 XT-D – Tamiya Mk1
EP120 AE-A – Revell MkVb (they even offer this aircraft as an option)
AR501 NN-A – Airfix Vc
MH434 ZD-B – Italeri MkIX
MW732 – Italeri MkIX
PS915 as PS 888 – Czechmaster Resin MkXIV fuselage, wings and canopy modified
PL965 – MPM MkPRXI
PT462 Irish Air Corps 161 – Italeri MkIX with Brigade TrIX conversion
RN201 – Academy XIV with wings clipped
ML407 – Italeri MkIX with Brigade TrIX conversion and canopy from spares box
TD248 – Aeroclub ‘bubbletop’ coversion with Spare MkIX fuselage and MkV wings (or a Heller XVI, I haven’t decided yet, but I have all the other parts.)

I should be finished for the centenary of the BofB…

Here are some pics from airliners.net to help.

P7350:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/933733/L/

EP120:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/847131/L/

AR501:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/906910/L/

MH434:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/947708/L/

MK732:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/923173/L/

PS915:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/950104/L/

PL965:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/947155/L/

PV202/IAC 161/G-CCCA:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/921958/L/

RN201:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/942051/L/

ML407:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/941261/L/

TD248:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/946830/L/

Hope these help.

spitfire photos

For excellent photos of all these aircraft try looking on Airliners.net. They have many excellent shots of Spitfires in both current schemes and past ones. Just enter the serial no of choice into the seach engine or just type Spitfire. There’s always a great new shot every week it seems..
Enjoy-
Neil Medcalf

hi
A pic of 81Sqd Badge on PS915. 🙂
Phil.

Here are a couple of the spits for you XN923.

Did anyone get any flying shots of the dutch one. I would like to see some as sadly my camera batterys decided to run out just after they took off.

Why is the v smaller and in that position? Also who owns the all silver spitfire with what i believe to be polish roundals on it:

i cant ever recall seing it before. Has it been repainted recantly? Also who owns the camouflaged late mark that was flying?

Because the larger ID letter V was painted over during the application of the stripes, and reapplied in this position. I would think so, anyway.

The silver Spitfire is the Dutch-owned MK732/PH-OUQ/3W-17.

The late-mark Spit you’re thinking of is probably HFL’s Spit 18, SM845.

The MkIX in Dutch livery was MK732 😉

ML407 carries her original codes as they were on D-Day: OU-V. The aircraft only carries the full-size OU letters, with a smaller v just beneath the canopy.

Why is the v smaller and in that position? Also who owns the all silver spitfire with what i believe to be polish roundals on it:

i cant ever recall seing it before. Has it been repainted recantly? Also who owns the camouflaged late mark that was flying?

Superb, just what I’m after!

Perfect!! Thanks all.

Mark12 – you mention ‘specifying underwing serials’ which gives you an tone…! Could you tell me what colour grey is used for the upper surfaces?

Thanks

Oh, and are they 36in?

XN923

Ominously official. I like that. 🙂

Yes I did all the technical stuff to refinish PS915 as “The Last” about a couple of years ago.

There are variations on the dimensions of underwing serials onPR Spitfires post WWII. Those applied to PS915 mirror exactly those on PS888, that is 24″ x 15″(nominal) x 3″ stroke in style characters as A.P.970.

The top deck, the upper wings and the upper tail planes/elevator were painted in Medium Sea Grey.

The Spinner is ‘Sky Blue’ which is an almost white – duck egg blue.

There is an an 81 Squadron Badge just in front of the cockpit entrance.

Mark

MK732

Hi Mr. XN923,

Small typing-error. Ours is MK732; not MW732

www.skhv.nl

I seem to remember specifying underwing serials. 😉

Mark

I stand corrected – I couldn’t remember for the life of me! 😮

Perfect!! Thanks all.

Mark12 – you mention ‘specifying underwing serials’ which gives you an ominously official tone…! Could you tell me what colour grey is used for the upper surfaces?

Thanks

Oh, and are they 36in?

XN923, you said-
‘The ones I require help with are as follows: I believe the ‘Grace’ two seater Mk. TrIX ML407 was flying, but if it was, I don’t know which codes it was carrying. The only photo I’ve seen doesn’t look like the OU-U codes the aircraft has carried in the past’
I was not at the September show, but have pics of the scheme you are looking for,

The earlier scheme…

Hope this is helpful

Finally, the BBMF PRXIX was carrying the PS888 ‘The Last’ slogan on the cowling, and this aircraft’s grey upper fuselage and upper surfaces of wings. The aircraft still carries its PS915 serial on the rear fuselage. However, pictures of PS888 show that it wore large (probably 36in) serials on the undersides of the wings – does anyone know if PS915 has these in its own, or PS888’s identity? I suspect it has no underwing serials at all, but confirmation would be nice.

Many thanks for indulging me!

I seem to remember specifying underwing serials. 😉

Mark

The MkIX in Dutch livery was MK732 😉

ML407 carries her original codes as they were on D-Day: OU-V. The aircraft only carries the full-size OU letters, with a smaller v just beneath the canopy.

TD248 – CR-S

I think, but I’m not sure, PS915 doesn’t carry serials beneath her wings. There was some recent film footage of her on the BBC website, doign a wing-over with the EFA Typhoon, and I don’t recall seeing serials, but I could be wrong.

Hope this helps somehow!