ben_m

Nice to see how the pre-shading was applied to the 1:1: originals.

This painting was based on this photo: Image: IWM (CH 11578)

Someone liked a post I made in this thread years ago, so it brought it back to my attention, and as photos have resurfaced of this aircraft- P9331- (via the AA810 project's facebook page) , I thought I'd post them in this thread: (colourised)

I randomly came across this YouTube video of the Academy factory in South Korea showing the stages of kit production, and thought it was quite interesting.

The most recent thread on the "PR" Mk.I with clipped wings is this one:

I think it was normal for several aircraft in a bomber formation to be taking strike photos while bombing. I think heavy bombers were all/nearly all fitted with cameras, and photoflash for night bombing.

The PRU Mauve looks sensible given the mix instructions, but doesn't match the shade of grey in the black and white photo. So either the aircraft wasn't in this scheme, or the mix instructions aren't accurate for the colour used on this aircraft. The oblique camera opening/radio hatch was not a standardised part in Type G's, 140 Squadron (that was formed from 1416 Flight in Sept 1941) were certainly had some bulged doors, as seen in this photo: The July 1941 date is dubious for the photo of P9328, as there is snow on the ground, and trees have no leaves. My guess is this aricraft was technically in 140 Sqn at the time of the photo, but they hadn't change the squadron code letters to 140's ZW on this aricraft.

@28ZComeback A bit late to this thread. My research into the colours on G-AESJ for this time period are in this post: The mission to Wilhelmshaven was flown by Niven and the photogrpaher was supposedly from the SIS, and was normally taking passport photos for agents' fake documentation. The photos were taken hand-held out the cabin windows with a Leica 35mm camera.

You could scratch build the type 35 camera control that was in the same location as the gunsight. (Photo from this walk around: https://www.ipmsstockholm.se/home/spitfire-pr-mk-xix-in-detail/ )

Necro-posting into this thread to keep all original-scheme PR Mk.I photos in the same place, after a 'new' one turned up in a Facebook thread (https://www.facebook.com/SpitfireAA810/posts/pfbid0kkPjzydxYgUGo8jXbmheBfB9wvHHcPZV8H6qoQktUFTTHBmkzoHUEZxMtJqmBsiRl): Taken onorthographic film, so the yellow in the roundel looks black. Also re-posting this which was originally posted by Jim Kiker, in case Photobucket stops free linking at some point.

Although maybe a bit out of date, this thread was pretty extensive in its coverage of available paints to match Sky:

They're already in Finland: this photo was taken at Malmi Airport, Helsinki, Finland.

Just re-posting the photo that was in the first post in this thread, as the link in original post doesn't work any more.

I'd be surprised if the person illustrating the scheme would have used a colour this light if the blue was supposed to be Extra Dark Sea Grey, particularly with the contrast to the green. When I get around to painting mine, I'm going for something that matches this illustration fairly closely.

Great, I'll try and find it. Many thanks for the tip. Edit: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/warplane-workshop/on-demand/73860-006