Spitfire MkVb Service

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Hi all,

I'm just wondering if anyone could tell me if the MkVb Spitfire saw combat in Africa in 1943, I'm asking as it's for a group build at my club. If it didnt I have to get another kit sharpish

Adrian

[Guest]

Imperial War museum have photo's of Vb's in Tunisia in 1943 so looks like you're OK. Good luck with the build. I'm a WWII desert fan so will follow the build with interest.

Baz

[stona]

There you go,I'd have been amazed if there hadn't been some but couldn't check.

At least you are good to go now

Cheers

Steve

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Phew, I've got the man body together now and ready to paint, I'll post pics soon as I can

Adrian

[Guest]

Didn't Airfix do a 1/24th Spit Vb in a desert scheme with a tropical air filter?

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Well, after 3 attempts I managed to get the Azure blue to look decent,

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Used silly putty to fill the wheel wells, worked really nice

Adrian

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[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Does anyone reckon I can use tamiya XF-52 and XF-59 to replace Airfix's 29 Dark Earth and 94 Brown Yellow?

Adrian

[stona]

It depends how much of a stickler you want to be!

I do think that XF 52 is much too red to be a direct substitute for Dark Earth. The other colour,properly Mid Stone,is much less yellow than what I can make out of XF 59,but I haven't seen the paint first hand.

I'm looking at the pull out in the back of my old,trusty and very beaten up copy of "British Aviation Colours of WW2" which,taken from the Colour Standards of the Ministry of Aircraft Production (MAP) are supposed to be about as accurate as we can get today.

The Tamiya colours are nonetheless in the right ball park.

Cheers

Steve

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Thanks Steve, I went a grabbed a couple of the Revell Aqua colours just to see what they looked like, think the sand is a little too yellow but the Dark earth looks much better .

Adrian

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

A little progress on my Africa Spitfire,, its not as yellow in real life , I just need to sort out the contrast on my camera

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Adrian

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