Kotare Spitfire

[moon puppy]

I tell ya Paddy, if this had an engine I probably wouldn't be building it right now. I think I paid $70 at the Squadron booth at a show last year.

 

[paddy]

Sounds like you got it a a good price. Of course you dont actually have top use the engine in the Tamiya build. I just hear a lot about how good the Kotare is but haven't seen anyone have a smooth build or turn out anything better than the Tamiya ? That said i am just throwing thoughts out there and i haven't even seen one of these let alone built one

Edit The prices i have seen i think are Canadian $. which i though were US $ , its a major problem with having to use VPN now to see sites outside the UK especially when you try and log in to accounts like Amazon / Ebay /Banks / other forums.

 

[moon puppy]

I don't have the Tamyia kit to compare but I get the old WnW fill with this one, for obvious reasons. The fit so far is spot on and they don't split panel lines in assembly. Like the spine and engine cowl. Really nice touches.

 

[moon puppy]

Iconic shape isn't it?

 

[Heavens Eagle]

It's got wings!

 

[paddy]

I love the shape of those early Spits, they started to lose that after the Mk V ... enjoying the update

 

[moon puppy]

I'm wondering about my scheme here. I'm doing the B option, Spitfire K9798. Instructions call for the black and white underbelly but I wonder would it have ever had all white underside?

 

[paddy]

Never all white Bob but black and white up to 1940 when they went to duck egg blue/Sky , that said some sky aircraft then had the black retrospectively applied from 40 to 41so you could use Sky and black but not really on a Mk1. The black and white was an aircraft recognition thing from about 1938 but it was abandoned once the radar chain was effective over land (previously it looked out to sea) I think

 

[moon puppy]

Never all white Bob but black and white up to 1940 when they went to duck egg blue/Sky , that said some sky aircraft then had the black retrospectively applied from 40 to 41so you could use Sky and black but not really on a Mk1. The black and white was an aircraft recognition thing from about 1938 but it was abandoned once the radar chain was effective over land (previously it looked out to sea) I think

Thanks Paddy, I was just reading more about how Dowding ordered the scheme fresh out off the factory floor. What's curious to me is the scheme as presented in the instructions shows an outline for the roundels as if they were over painted. What I'm reading was the order was for no roundels or serial number on the underside. The black and white scheme would be identification enough.
what's your thoughts?

 

[paddy]

As a rule of thumb i would think Roundels with black and white for the Battle of Britain but not earlier so early to mid 1940 ish until the Sky scheme.

EDIT
looks like they had gone to sky and black by the time they added roundels. note yellow ring round roundel on black side

nothing is ever simple