June 7, 201411 yr Several years ago I uploaded a few paints for the RealAir Spitfire including MK732 " Baby Bea V " . Due to a harddisk failure I lost all the paintwork used for the textures and short of downloading my own work decided to remake these paints . First up are reworked textures for " Baby Bea V " , followed by MK732 " through the ages " . MK732 saw action on 6 june 1944 in Normandy shooting down a Ju88 and on 8 june a FW190 in the livery shown here for 485 Sqn ( New Zealand ) RAF .MK732 here as H 25 in service with the RNLAF ( KLu ) 322 Sqn in 1946 .MK732 here as 3W 17 again with 322 Sqn in the current paint 2013 .John
June 8, 201411 yr Author Thanks for the comments . Pity the RealAir Spit is only the MkIX and MkXIV , will have to get hold of the A2A for some other types . Here are some more reworked textures of my earlier uploads .MK732 322 Sqn with " clipped " wings circa 2004 .MK959 H15 with " clipped " wings . Used as static display mounted on a pole .MK959 with 302 Sqn markings 5A-K after being restored to flying condition .MH424 ( MJ271 ) as H 53 , currently being restored to flying condition at Duxford .John
June 8, 201411 yr Great shots IMHO, the Spit IX is one of the most beautiful planes ever created. Perfect balance of form and power. I do hope Rob and Sean consider doing Spitfire v2. Cheers TJ "The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams Tejon 'TJ' Stanley
June 8, 201411 yr Author I think there are quite a few 90 year olds that would agree ! I have no idea what RealAir's plans are but if they do make further versions I'll be buying it for sure . The paintkit does most of the work , although more stencilling as detail would have been nice . Not having any access to a " real " Spitfire does limit the amount of detail that you can add . John
June 15, 201411 yr Author During my search for photo's of MK732 I kept finding other " stuff " about Spitfires and 485 NZ Sqn RAF . One of these items was the restoration of PV270 to flying condition in the markings of ( the then ) Wing Commander Alan Deere . Although PV270 never flew for 485 Sqn it had quite a history as well having flown for the RAF , Italian Air Force , Israeli Defence Force and finaly the Burmese Air Force before being " retired " .It seems that Alan Deere was a very lucky person having been shot down at least 3 times and being involved in 2 mid-air collisions and each time was back in the cockpit a few days later . One of the collisions was with a " friendly " aircraft during a training excercise when he was showing a " rookie " pilot how to survive air combat and telling the other pilot " stick to me like glue " ( of which I am sure this line was used in the film Battle of Britain ) . Unfortunately the other pilot Sgt H Squires took this too literally resulting in the crash . Both aircraft were destroyed but both pilots survived this and the war . In 2009 Sgt Squire's aircraft was found after low rainfall in a river and was also restored to flying condition . This was a Spitfire MkIa X4650 code KL-A which is apparently only one of three MkI's still airworthy .Here few screens of PV270John
June 17, 201411 yr Great set! i9-13900KS | ASUS Z790 Maximus | Lian Li Galahad II Trinity | G-Skill DDR5-7200 CL34 2x16 | Nvidia 4090 FE | Samsung 990 Pro x 2
June 19, 201411 yr Lovely! I looked over a Spitfire at Oshkosh a few years ago. I was shocked at how small it was especially after standing next to a Corsair which was massive by comparison!
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