Author Topic: Anyone wanna skin this Spitfire? (Read 2425 times)

1K3 · « **on:** February 20, 2007, 12:02:59 PM »

yummy:)

Krusty · « **Reply #1 on:** February 20, 2007, 12:52:34 PM »

Interesting find! Would go well with the Ki84 with the blue arrow on the tail.

Come to think of it, we need more aircraft with large arrows on the sides!

Bring on the He163s! (er, sorry, that's for another post)

1K3 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2007, 01:23:56 PM »

russia and japan seem to be facinated with big bright arrows

Krusty · « **Reply #3 on:** February 20, 2007, 01:34:53 PM »

I think the soviet arrows are more like lightning bolts, as hey have the kink in the shaft most of the time.

Not that I'm complaining! Just pointing it out.

devil956 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 20, 2007, 02:03:29 PM »

my god that would be sweet

Kev367th · « **Reply #5 on:** February 21, 2007, 01:55:50 PM »

Seen pics of it without the lightning flash, so I would need proof it actually carried it.
Bit sceptical.

Krusty · « **Reply #6 on:** February 21, 2007, 01:59:40 PM »

Kev, that's got the lightning on it. I can see it in the pic you postd.

rogerdee · « **Reply #7 on:** February 21, 2007, 02:01:24 PM »

kev looking closely at your photo could that be a faded arrow on the side it looks like it to me

Krusty · « **Reply #8 on:** February 21, 2007, 02:02:06 PM »

It's faint, but that could just be the B&W photography, or fading over time. It's not 100% but it closely matches the color profile in angle and position, to me.

EDIT: I'm extrapolating under the "538" based on where the zig stops and where the stripe is behind the star. I can't see this too well, but again it could be faded, or the arrow could have been painted over here, or maybe the photo just didn't pick the colors up too well.

croduh · « **Reply #9 on:** February 21, 2007, 02:17:31 PM »

Kev needs glasses?

Kev367th · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2007, 03:04:29 PM »

Lol.

Sorry I just can't see it.
I think the profile artist has taken some picture age blemishes and turned them into a lightning bolt.
How do you explain the same shade of grey that goes almost vertically over the rear of the upper engine cowling?

Noted VVS modeller doesn't even show it with a lightning bolt -
http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/Modeling/Supermarine/Spitfire/MkV/Grinberg/index.php

On another note -"White 78" was an LF IXe, so it should be allowed on the XVI.

Squire · « **Reply #11 on:** February 21, 2007, 03:57:01 PM »

A few models of it I found on the net:

http://vvs.hobbyvista.com/ModelArticles/Grinberg/spit5/index.html

http://menatezz.sakura.ne.jp/sbm/vvs-spit5/s5-01.jpg

It has been modelled without the arrow, but it seems its hard to nail down a definitive scheme from a single b/w photo.

Either version would be cool.

Krusty · « **Reply #12 on:** February 21, 2007, 06:43:32 PM »

Maybe folks just didn't see the arrow, you didn't

I think there was an arrow, but I think there was more as well. I think there was something over the cowling, but maybe this was independent of the arrow? I'm guessing here. Without larger images I can't tell. The lines are too consistent to simply be blemishes on the film/photo. I think they're on the craft itself, but the film/photo just isn't up to showing it properly.

You could argue either way for it, and never be wrong.

So, in an either/or situation, I'd take the one with the nice eye-catching arrow!

Treize69 · « **Reply #13 on:** February 21, 2007, 06:46:43 PM »

Yes, the arrow says "bullets go here"

Kev367th · « **Reply #14 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:23:03 PM »

Maybe Dan can help out with this.

One thing - It certaily is 'striking'