1/48 Scale - Supermarine Spitfire Mk.1

[Ian M]

Typical Tamiya (Far east for that matter) Make great kits but are rather Naff at things like instructions and paint guides.

Ian M

[Guest]

Yes, those are the compressed air bottles, not the oxygen bottle. I've just checked the instructions from the kit I built last year and it looks like this kit doesn't have the oxygen bottle present. It usually sits on the other side behind the seat - you can see it here on someone else's build of the 1:32 Tamiya Spitfire VIII

[Guest]

Thanks Steve, I have change it on the instructions, I was really bugging me haha, as for the interior I will just do it the green colour, like you say it won't be noticeable on this build but interesting to know for future builds..

And yes Ian I agree, the kits are fantastic, but they list the paints at the top of the first page, but when you look through the instructions there are some they didn't state, good job I checked before I started ordering the paints lol.

Cheers guys,

Shane

[Guest]

Thanks andrew only just got seen your post.

Shane

[stona]

I don't think that the oxygen bottle would have been there on a Mk VIII. The Mk V (so presumably some early Mk IXs which started out as Vs) was the last to have it there. I have a Mk IX manual and the oxygen bottle is shown three frames further back,in front of the battery and,somewhat alarmingly,the upward firing flare chute.

Maybe Tamiya got that wrong too.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

cheers guys,

steve, thanks for the picture and stuff i just seen them,

Im going to be "attempting" the No.610 squadron, serial No. L1043, DW(O)O i was just going to do it the green colour, would be nice to do as much the same as i can but this will be my first model that i really done, ( other than being a child which was no good lol) they dont state any colour for the wheel wells haha, on the side picture it dont state and the wheels are down then on the picture for the underside the wheels are up .. but the back plate behind the wheel states xf-21, sky

picture kindly borrowed from scalemodelshop.

i built these bits up yesterday and today i applied the primer, just awaiting some paints from john (great service by the way ) so will post some more when i have them,

thanks again guys

shane

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[stona]

L1043 was from an early batch of Spitfire Mk Is. It was built by Supermarine at Eastleigh (Southhampton) and first flew on 3/7/39. It went to 19 MU on 7/7/39 where it would have been marked as per Fighter Command regulations. The underside would have been half black and half white.

It was sent to 610 Squadron on 6/12/39 and moved on to 266 Squadron on 18/6/40.

On 9/9/40 its front line carreer ended as it went to 7 OTU and then on to various training units. It hit a tree on approach to Hawarden on 12/8/41 and must have been terminally damaged as it was struck off command on 18/8/41. It would have been broken up for spares/scrapped.

The order to repaint the undersides of fighter command aircraft in the new colour Sky was sent out on 7/6/40. It caused a lot of confusion. This clarification was issued on the same day.

Due to a lack of the new colour aircraft already in service were allowed to continue in the earlier scheme for a period.

These dates mean that your aircraft was at 610 Squadron (about to move on,they wouldn't have known that) when the order came through. It's probable that the squadron repainted the underside. There was a lot of confusion at the time about what exactly the new colour was. Some units mixed their own version,some mistakenly applied Sky Blue and some just waited for supplies.

Either way L1043 was repainted at unit level so it is likely that the wheel wells and insides of the gear doors were not masked and received a coat of the new colour too.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

...and ^^^this is why we love the forum so much, there are some experts out there with an astonishing level of detailed information at their fingertips

[stona]

I take no credit for the documents.

They are some of the many dug out of our National Archives by Edgar Brooks whom I readily credit and who really is knowledgeable about the Spitfire.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

steve again many many thanks.. this is such helpfully information, although no i feel more pressure to get the colour correct, but good to know that there was changes made and some mixed there own etc etc,

and that document help.. i like the version with the sky underside, and looking at the vallejo air they do a Duck Egg Green so i think i will get that for it, also i just checked the instructions and that states componants inside the wheel doors are the same sky color as well as the wheels..

thanks again mate.

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[Guest]

just received some goodies from john,, thanks again mate, great service, more to follow soon...

shane

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[Guest]

hey guys, spent the evening doing some painting.. after some troubles with the airbrush i came in for a while before i through at the wall haha.. anyway i got it working painted the interior green parts, and painted the pilot, they picture show the colours different in different pictures due to the light... but you get the picture,

i just sat the pilot into the seat for the picture still need to do some painting to the seat area and attach his hand to the controls.

im quite please with the pilot

Steve quick question mate, on the instrument panel the instruction say to paint the 6 dials (square section) black, shouldnt the whole panel (the semi circle ) be black and the lower half green ?

cheers guys

shane

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[Ian M]

Looking pretty good.

The instrument panel, with all the dials on should be black, the bottom part with the big hole in it is green. that little round thing that hangs down from the top should be silver (well clear actually as its glass).

That pilot figure looks good too. I thought you said you couldn't paint figures.

Ian M

[Guest]

cheers ian,, i will do that then..

and thanks. its the first figure i have painted

Shane

[stona]

Yep,Like this from a Spitfire V.

The bit Ian described "dangling" is the compass and would of course have a glass top.

Cheers

Steve