Spitfire Vb tropical.

[Guest]

Last time I was in Tunisia, it was 50 degrees and I have to say I expected it to be and managed to get by thanks to air conditioned rooms at the hotel, air conditioned coaches taking us to see the sights and scant, in my case probably unpleasant, lack of shirts ties and trousers. What I don't expect is the temperatures in some parts of the UK, we just are not used to it Theuns lol. Air conditioning has only recently arrived in some family cars, it is not common in homes as yet and i can tell you, it may only be 27 or so here in Peterborough but by the time I had cycled home, flung open the windows and sat down to check out the forum, I was wet through. :laughing:

[Guest]

Well , the other side of the coin is that if it gets close to 0 deg here I get very unhappy!

Last week we had a few nights under 0 and it wa to cold to even work on a model!!! ;-)

Theuns

[Gern]

but by the time I had cycled home, flung open the windows and sat down to check out the forum, I was wet through. :laughing:

You told me you were waiting for your missus to pick you up!

If you can give away all my secrets, I can give yours away! lol

Gern

[Ian M]

Ian I don't think that you've done anything wrong. My version is much later when all sorts of things have been painted and re-painted. I think you've done a fabulous job of how AN*V would have looked when she was much newer.I'll have a look on my computer for some piccies as I'm still away from home. I'm in a sweltering Amsterdam today.....31 degrees.....bloody hot!

Cheers

Steve

The plan that shows where the decals should be placed is in black and white and tamiya choose to show both the call sign and the serial in black!!! I have since found out that the factory put the serial nr on and the call sign was added afterwards. MoD dictats just happend to put the call sign letters over the serial nr. ! So it should be as you have depicted.

I only found this out after two caots of satin clear coat, so bit late to do any thing about it!!!

I must say that your war beaten and patched up version does look rather brilliant.

Could you recommend any good "picture books" on spitfires of the RAF. A good source of profiles, and the such?

Ian m ( wondering what to do with the next one)

[stona]

Spitfires aren't really my thing,despite the fact I love 'em. I don't have any of the weighty tomes that the experts have,I've quite enough Luftwaffe related ones thanks! I've got several of the Osprey "Aircraft of the aces" series which are always good for some nice pictures and profiles. I don't know enough about them to vouch for them,but people who do know are generally fairly happy with them. Otherwise, for me, it's mostly more general British references or the odd thing I've picked up as a bargain over the years. If you want to track a particular machine then this web site is excellent.

Spitfire - Main

My Norton security keeps flagging a warning but I've never had a problem with it.

I've had a look for some "split" Spit camo pictures but can't find them. I know I scanned some a while ago so I'll have a good look when I get the chance. They are probably filed under "Wellington" or something equally daft! By the time the BOB was really in full swing most frontline fighters were painted with some version of "Sky" on the underside anyway.

The order to paint undersides "Sky" was given on 6th June 1940,really during what we call the phoney war and the Germans (at least the Luftwaffe,who were regaining their strength after serious losses during the battle of France) call the "Sitzkrieg". I think that is a play on words Sitzkrieg/Blitzkrieg.....german humour lol.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Very nice spitfire ian lovely clean paint job but the pilot is spot on well done mate.

scott