Heavens Eagle
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If you dare, reference picture needed. But then who knows how long it stayed that way before some maintenance took paint to it.
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Kotare Spitfire
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paddy
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I have search most of my extensive library on the spitfire an in my opinion this is an anomaly that may have been fitted in the morning to get the aircraft out for this publicity shot and removed and painted strait after. This is one of a series of staged publicity shots of 19sqn in 1939 at RAF Duxford taken of the same line up from various angles.
I've already talked myself out of it, don't want to mask a canopy again. I find it about as interesting as track links. 
I just notice that AC doesn't have a AC Code on it. Maybe it was literally a WIP rolled out for the glam shot?
I just notice that AC doesn't have a AC Code on it. Maybe it was literally a WIP rolled out for the glam shot?
Heavens Eagle
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Possibly a new spare that hasn't yet had much need for a code.I've already talked myself out of it, don't want to mask a canopy again. I find it about as interesting as track links.
I just notice that AC doesn't have a AC Code on it. Maybe it was literally a WIP rolled out for the glam shot?
Gettin' her underside colored up.
centaur567
Well-known member
NICE! Gary S.
I'd just flip it around.
Paddy tell me about the exhaust ports. Looking at the instructions it calls for some decals installed. That make me think this was not the actual exhaust manifold but some shroud maybe?
Paddy tell me about the exhaust ports. Looking at the instructions it calls for some decals installed. That make me think this was not the actual exhaust manifold but some shroud maybe?
paddy
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They didnt have a manifold as such just individual stubs made of a corrosion resistant Steel alloy called Incone, these stubs were paired with a fabricated ejector nozzle on the early models so appear to be just 3 outlets a side. I would guess any wording would have burnt off very quickly. A common mistake with modelers is to paint these stubs a dull red as if they had rusted but really they went a straw /bronze like any over heated steel.
