I think you should leave those little numbers on there.
It looks so professional......and you are too mate. "Rations"?
By the way I'm working on our little plan HB.

Fantastic work on a tough aircraft to do right,and you are one of those guys

Awww shucks, thanks mate!
I've started skinning My Darling Dorothy, it's going slowly but none the less I hope to post some screenies this week.

And here she is...


Although she's an early version XI without the extra fuel pumps it looks like she had her fuel cooler removed (the inlet being blanked over), I don't know why but I'm guessing they felt they could manage any fuel boiling by just climbing gently to altitude. As you can see she's rather worn and been subject to some touch-ups along with the removal of the invasion stripes, hence why the edges of the star'n'bars are looking quite rough. Something to note is that this mod has the 'universal' carburettor intake (which the vast majority of XIs had) however PA892 had the small, old-school intake.
Up next will be a late model XI for the RAF, probably PL775 'A'.

HB

... and she is very fine

The Spitfire just has such clean lines, elliptical and all that. This is nice work indeed. Keep it up

WOW wicked awesome

Cheers guys, and Emel I agree she has great lines; I feel that's why the Spit looks great in overall PRU blue as it shows those lines off rather than the shape being broken up by the standard cammo pattern.

Here's PL775 'A'. As you can see she, like PA892, didn't have an oblique camera fitted (at least not in the photos I used as reference) and as she had a Bendix Stromberg carburettor (Merlin 70) she had the blisters covering the additional fuel pumps as well as no fuel cooler. Also, her invasion stripes had been applied with a fair amount of care and tidiness. The light streak on the outer port wing is fuel that's blown out of the overflow pipe.



I'll upload these two soon and then do some generics.

Cheers,

HB

very cool Harry, a lot of nice little details

Hello Gentlemen...found out about this short documentary on a Spitfire PRU unit, pilot with some cool 16mm b/w footage from the English airbase it flew from ('heads up' courtesy of Beebop/M4T)...cool interview with a pilot who flew over Berlin to get photos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie3SrjLlcUY