Thankyou everyone for replying.
AMB
Then it was repainted into the scheme shown here until 1953. Apart from Charles E. Brown, I don’t think anyone else could afford colour film, which wasn’t affordable by to the masses in the UK until a few years later.
I sort of hoped our rich American cousins (servicemen?) may have been attracted to the odd air race or this airframe might have put down on a USAF base in the UK for fuel. I know they brought over Kodak colour film, its just a case of one of them snapping a picture. There is always a chance.
TerryP
No evidence but a vague memory of this scheme as being pretty much that shade of blue but with yellow cheat line.
Taken on board and have done a gold cheat line version.
This could one be two things. They changed the colour from light to dark or the dark bands shots are on that film that turns the outer ring of type C1 fuselage roundels dark, orthochromaticic, panchromatic whichever, and that the band may well be yellow but of the same b/w tonal quality of the cheat line and serial which are most likely silver.
Thankyou Mark12 for your input, I have done a copy as you suggest, alongside TerryPs (vague?) memory version. I used roundal yellow as this is the colour that reacts over time, is this too deep or would Lemon yellow be more likely?
As you know, I have been archiving my Spitfire profiles for some time now and have done several hundred. The archive is constantly changing and being updated throughout when new information surfaces or photos come on the market. Its nice to get it right, but not a complete disaster when wrong as correcting is relatively straightforward.
As an aside, do you know what the marks are highlighted. I read somewhere some earlier models had a downwards firing flare gun near the tail, is this it?
Thanks again
Baz
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