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Thanks Tony and Jure, I may be getting closer to understanding this. It seems to be a fairly subtle difference between the Mark I and Mark II, with those Mark II with tropical filters being a more obvious variant. Is that correct? Tony, would that make the 3rd , 4th and 5th photos on your post Mk II's? I know that the 5th is a Mk II of 809 on Victorious from the Donald Duck emblem and 809 was entirely Mk IIs at the time. There is another photo of the same aircraft flying off taken from the front which seems to have the wider intake you describe. If I could work out how to do it I'd post that picture, I found it in Ray Sturtivant's book "FAA at War". Jure, thanks for the link to the picture of the flight deck of Victorious. It a brilliant image, very evocative of the place. I hadn't seen that one before but there is a very similar shot of the same scene with a different Code letter G aircraft without the tropical air filters which establishes that both variants of the Mk II were supplied to 809. To properly represent a Mk II without the tropical filters would therefore involve a bit of modification to any of the Kits I've referred to or is there a version out there that anyone could point me to? Cheers Henry

I am new to this site and wonder if anyone can help with a definitive answer to my query. Many references seem to imply that the defining element of the Fairey Fulmar II are the additional side air inlets, yet evidence from pilots logs and Serial Number Lists show that many of the aircraft delivered and flown as Fulmar IIs did not have the addtional air inlets. I would love to know for certain as I am trying to complete versions of models of Fulmars N4074 and X8812 both of which were flown by my father and both of which were delivered and flown as Fulmar IIs. Special Hobby / Eduard / MPM versions show images of these aircraft but refer to N4074 as a Fulmar I, which it isn't, and this leads me to be uncertain that the appearance of their version of X8812 with the side air inlets is actually correct. Is there a photo reference of X8812 somewhere to settle this, or can anyone confirm for certain that the serial number X8812 did in fact have the side air inlets?