Hi all, this is my 1st posting on this forum. Now for the harder part, what I need is the schematics of a spitfire! Preferably the fuselage and wings with dimensions, I’m learning (Solidworks a 3D program) and would love to do a Spitfire in 3D. Appreciations in advance, when finished I would...
I got a few sequences of these fine aircraft while visiting Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix to view the B29 FIFI.
The B17 was taken from the end of the runway and the others were all from the tarmac at the airport.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxqZ9ShK9G4
Cheers, John
I'd like to share a sound recording I made at RAF Hendon on the 12th September of a single Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight.
The recording is here.
To me, its sounds like a Griffon. Can anyone tell me which aircraft it is? I've tried a few image searches but nothing yet.
I have just got my hands on a Spitfire MKIXc 1:72 scale, i want to do the desert camouflage scheme but i want to use Tamiya colours. What colours should i use. :confused:
Thanks
I have read several brief mentions that the Hurricane was less expensive than the Spitfire.
Was it just that Supermarine charged more or was the airframe really that much more complicated to produce? The Hurricane seems more complicated with the cloth covered parts as compared to the...
I have recently got involved in an argument about the iron used to construct WW2 planes like Spitfires and Hurricanes in the UK. When Churchill became Prime Minister he installed press baron Lord Beaverbrook as the minister for aircraft production. It was Beaverbrook's responsibility to provide...
Hi everybody,
now that the forum is "malware free", I can start the work-in-progress of the above model.
First I must say that latest Tamiya kit i did was aprox 20 years ago and was this one
impressive, may be, but done exactly "out of the box" without even knowing about weathering etc...
Title: Two Graces
Year Created: 2007
Medium: Oil on board
Size Width: 72 cm
Size Height: 91 cm
Size Depth: 0.5cm
Theme: Aviation
Price: Request Price
Description: Two mk 5 Spifires on patrol over the channel. Always wanted to have a crack at painting these difficult shapes.