My Spitfire factory: Zumbach's Spitfire Mk.Vb

36feet10inches said:

Actually that's BM144, the Vb flown by Zumbach before he got hold of EN951, which is the one I'm building. You can tell from the different "duck" artwork and the (fewer) kill markings. the mounts are quite different on the two aircraft - the BM144 one is markedly more "triangular", pinched at the top, whereas the EN951 had two parallel bars. There may also have been a short "brace" at the front of the base but that would've been a tiny piece of 5 amp fuse wire too far.

(Either way you're probably right that the mirror was flatter, just that I used the little transparency and coloured it with silver Sharpie on the back before painting in an attempt to make it look "reflective")

Edit: correcting myself here: the second of your pics is BM144 (Zumbach's first Vb), the first one is EP594 (his second). Again, note difference in the ducks - baseball bat up, baseball bat down. The mirror mounts look so similar on the two that I'd almost bet it was taken off BM144 and put on EP594 when he switched planes. For EN951 he had a whole new mount built. I wonder what the reason for the extension was anyway?

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36feet10inches said:

I wonder if I should go to the trouble of trying to add the green base mount. Probably too much like faff now, it's in place and I feel gives a reasonable representation:

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Wurger said:

Your mirror looks good. Well done.

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