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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: SkyChimp on November 20, 2005, 12:52:55 PM

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Post by: SkyChimp on November 20, 2005, 12:52:55 PM

Man im tired of asking u these things but ur da man hehe.






Can u please find me a profile for a spitty 16 or some 109's

Which ever model ;) i like the f tho.


I kinda feel like making a 109.


Thanks..


-SkyChimp

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Post by: Blixen on November 20, 2005, 01:22:13 PM

(http://motty.hobbyvista.com/Articles/Motty's-Hawk-A27-21-Spit-009-001.jpg)
(http://www.flyvintage.com/images//news/2000/08/spit_te184_01.jpg)

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Post by: Guppy35 on November 20, 2005, 11:34:39 PM

Problem with both those is that they are restored Spits with less then accurate markings.

The bottom one in the French markings was actually built as a low back Spit XVI and when it was restored the owner had it built back up to a high back

Not sure what the RAAF marked bird is as they flew Vcs and VIIIs while that looks like a V with a 4 blade prop, clipped wings and multiple exhaust stacks.  Nothing that flew operationally for the RAAF like that :)

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Post by: Kev367th on November 21, 2005, 01:15:54 AM

RAAF one looks like a late war clipped Mk LF Vc, definately not a XVI.

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Post by: Guppy35 on November 21, 2005, 01:33:09 AM

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Originally posted by Kev367th
RAAF one looks like a late war clipped Mk LF Vc, definately not a XVI.

I'm half tempted to believe the clipped bird is one of those fiberglass replicas.  It's too much of a hodge podge of stuff to be anything else.  Something just doesn't look right.

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Post by: Karnak on November 21, 2005, 02:06:35 AM

The elevators are the wrong ones for an LF.Mk V, ad least judging from the photos in Spitfire: The History.

Also the rear fuselage looks too thick to me.  It could be perspective, but it just looks a bit off.

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Post by: straffo on November 21, 2005, 03:06:24 AM

Strange marquing on the "french" MkXVI ?
Why yellow around the roundel ?
Why the stripes ?
Where is the squadron code ?

no ZE184 or TE184 registred by the Armée de l'air (I can be wrong for this one)

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Post by: FTJR on November 21, 2005, 03:19:55 AM

Looking at a (historic) picture of UP-U now.  It was a 79 Squadron Spit V, and doesn't remotely look like the one posted above :D

regards