This is my skin of a 549 Squadron RAAF Spitfire Mk 8. Late in the war, with the threat of Japanese attacks on their airfields receding, some RAAF and RAF aircraft were kept in bare metal or silver painted schemes to save weight and reduce drag. It presumably helped prevent friendly fire incidents as well. This was particularly the case with lend lease aircraft, but also some British ones.
This aircraft was usually flown by Flt. Lt. Dave Glaser but its only action was in a single ground attack sortie flown by Squadron Leader Eric Bocock on 1st October 1944.
I have applied the new bump and specularity maps to this skin. I've kept the bump map effects turned down as they can look a little weird on natural metal skins if overdone. Being able to make the metal shiny without washing out the painted areas is a big improvement though. I have found the bump mapping to be a more useful effect on GV skins.
