It would be one hell of a Stuka pilot, who could hit a T-34 from that angle……looks like they hit straight from the side.

For many hobbyist it was also a matter of developing and printing your own pictures. This was/is more expensive and complicated than B&W.

Even in the 80’s most books on hobby photography only covered B&W developing and printing.

This photo was taken before work ceased for the winter. Many hours of metal cutting and rivetting ahead. Then it ONLY needs is the cockpit and visible areas to be fully fitted out, primed and painted then its finished.:diablo: I started off with a cockpit area only then my imagination took hold. I was then going to stop at frame 19 as my garage can’t take anything bigger but I decided to make a removeable rear fuselage with fin. What about wings you may ask? Well they are big brutes so I measured everything up and realised that I couldn’t even get one inside at an angle. I suppose I could build wings outside but we only get about 5 sunny days a year in scotland and they would get soaked in the rain or the local B……..s would set fire to it. Before the cost of aluminium shot up I purchased the sheeting but didnt realise the weight of the shipment and nearly damaged my back helping to move if off the lorry. Subsequent movement has been sheet by sheet.
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Oh even the wooden frame is starting to get too heavy to move on my own so I need to be able to move it around in my garage that means I need to build a trolly and need to be able to transport it so that’s a tow hook for the car and some form of trailer. May even be able to get the car in the garage next winter.

What a great looking project – good luck with it.

Don’t disagree, but the point is that some of the material in IWM or RAFM posession wasn’t taken by Servicemen, but by Press photographers or private individuals

In that case its unlikely that it was ever Crown Copyright (unless somehow commissioned).

Don’t confuse material held by the RAF Museum or IWM with material that has Crwon Copyright. Some undoubtedly does fall under CC, but there is also a substantial body of work whose rights are NOT Crown Copyright, but the original Copyright holder’s rights have been assigned to the museum. In that case, copyright exists in the material 70 years from the death of the original holder.

I have a suspicion much of the Charles Brown collection falls under that.

I have discussed the extend of Crown Copyright with MOD Directorate of Intellectual Property Rights Copyright Unit (DIPR-CC). Currently the wording of what constitutes CC material is, that the content should have been made as part of the creators official duty.

However, in the states during WWII everything created by servicemen while on duty, is a work of the United States Federal Government and thus now in public domain.

DIPR-CC was unable to inform me, if this US style wording was used for material produced by British servicemen during WWII.

Since the nation was at war, Im inclined to think that it was. Placing all material produced while serving under Crown Copyright. But its nothing I have been able to get clarified.