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Thank you friends! I will present you other Spitfires soon - I hope 🙂

Thank you. In the moment I have 11 finished and 5 on my work bench.

This kit based on Eduard's Spitfire HF MK.VIII, I opened inlet for fuel cooler, make a small intake for compressor and modified cockpit area. Custom decals, but squadron badge looks a bit too large. :-? Canon barrels from Master, exhaust resin Eduard.

I present two trop Spitfires from 318 City of Gdansk Squadron (Fighter-Reco) Polish Air Force in Italy 1944. Planes have a mix of Mediterranean camouflage. Unit was formed in Palestine and equipped with Hurricane, before the unit was send to Italy, changed Hurricane against Spitfire MK.V. 1. Personally plane of CO of 318 Squadron Wing Commander Leszek Wielichowski was built as one MK.Vc but after an accident on Malta was equipped with wings from LF MK.Vb. Kit from Tamiya, used resin exhaust from Eduard for Spitfire MK.IX, Quickboost propeller and cannon barrels from Master 2.One other Spitfire from this unit. Kit Sword wit Aboukir filter and exhaust from Tamiya kit, cannon barrels from Master, Quickboost propeller.

I present my two Hasegawa Spitfires. 1. "Hello" was in USA for tests with additional fuel tanks, on the way back in Greenland got this nose art. Decals are from Aeromaster, nice printed but to stiff, I only used nose art and serial number from it. Nos art is a bit too big for Hasegawa kit... 2. "Pauline..." used in India 1946, decals from Exito "Sexy Spitfire" sheet, very good quality printed by Cartograf. For both kits I used Quickboost exhaust and Master cannon barrels.

I can ask his son, if it's planed.

Hi Socjo, thx and you are right, girl must be always clean 🥰 but this is a bit smoked. Happy Easter to you and all forum members.

It was Wojtek Matusiak from Poland. He published it in a book about Polish Spitfires "Polish Wings vol.15 Spitfire IX", in this book we get a few pictures of this plane flown by Duryasz and one with the original codes 3W-K. Second source is the book from Duryasz himself "Moje podniebne boje" published last year in Poland.

For this kit I used: dash board from Yahu, seat belts, exhaust pipes from Eduard and custom made decals. References Stratus "Polish Wings vol.15. Polish Spitfire IX". Short story about this plane. After a combat mission, F/O Jan Jonker from 322 Dutch Squadron (3W-K) was force to land at Rennes (USAAF) due to engine trouble – 12 August 1944. This plan was never transfer to a repair. The RAF liaison officer by the 100th Fighter Wing USAAF W/Cdr Tom Nail get it running and used for communications flight. He let removed the painting, so become this Spitfire it’s NMF. In late 1944 Nail received a new posting and was forced to get rid of his unusual personal aeroplane. After a long search, he managed to find an officer who was not deter by the illegal way the machine was acquire. The officer was W/Cdr Marian Duryasz the Polish Liaison Officer at the HQ 2nd TAF. He painted the code M(arian) B(arbara his wife) – D(uryasz) on this plane. In February, he left this plane behind for S/Ldr Ludwik Martel.

Thank you Tony! Happy Easter!

I love it! This plane in Finnish markings looks much better then with the red stars 😉 Congratulations!

Hi Friends, I finished 3 from 5 Spitfire Vb and will present they. I used from after market following parts: canon barrels from Master seat belts from Eduard decals for WX-C - Kager "Polish Spitfires2, for YO-A - Exito "Sexy Spitfires", JH-T diverse sets, RAF markings from Tamiya - Cocarde Typ C1 looks a bit to small propeller for WX-C from Sword kit, YO-A from Quickboost, JH-T OOB exhaust all kits from Quickboost is a bit to small mirror and IFF antennas from scratch Happy Easter! Wesolych Swiat Wielkanocnych! Joyeuses Pâques! Frohe Ostern!

Is this plane ugly. Super work Fuad!

Szczerbakov was built 1943 and all of the were painted AMT-11/12 on upper site. I did my model years ago and don't know this, so I painted it as in old publications: green/earth. Have fun with your model Wojtek!

Fantastic, well done Jurek.

Thank you! Sorry, but AJ-Press was liquidated years ago.

Thank you Bob. Yes, it is my interpretation of 56th "plum". How I did it? I painted my kit black surfacer from Gunze first. I thought about using one of the three colors: Gunze H55 Midnight Blue or Humbrol RAF Roundel Blue, but I opted for H326 Thunderbird Blue from Gunze, why I did it? The H55 was not bleu enough for me and the Humbrol was oil paint. Why Tamiy and not Revell? Tamiya is in my opinion better in shape than Revell, additionally planning P-47D Razorback Pengie II and III, we do not have an equivalent from Revell. If I put the P-47D Tamiya or Academy next to the Revell P-47M, we would have too much contrast between them. I did also P-47M from Revell, see here: P-47M Revell/Hobby 2000 1/72 - Ready for Inspection - Aircraft - Britmodeller.com I hope Gladych, in the end he married she 😉

This is my last P-47D for this year. Built OOB, only decals are from mix: USAAF stars from Microscale leftovers, code and nose art from AJ-Press/Husar Publications book about the 56FG. I have Kits World decals as well but here is the nose art for Tamiya's kit too big and USAAF stars without red outline. Enjoy.

Thank you, I ordered custom leser print decals for it. A friend does it for my. Thank you all guys!

I present my last two kits from Gladych´s P-47 called Pengie II and Pengie V. Pilot's bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolesław_Gładych some mistakes, but ok so far. Kits from Tamiya, extras: dash board from Yahu, seat belts Eduard, Pitot tube from Master, for M I used propellor from Quickboost. Decals are mix from AJ-Press/Hussar and Aero Master and Techmod. "Pengie II" "Pengie V" All P-47D/M from Gladych. In future I will make a Spitfire F MK.IXc "Pengie", Gladychs first plane with this nick name.

Hello Friends, I just finished my next project with in total 2xP-47D and 3xM. I will present you now two of them. Kit is a Hobby 2000 (Poland) reissue from Revell's P-47M, I bought it because of the decals, the are very nice printed by Cartograf Italy, but pin ups are printed in the new and worse technology using by Cartograf in pixels 😧 I had an extra Revell kit so I used both markings from the Hobby 2000 box and added USAAF stars from Tamiya's leftovers. Revell is a nice kit but wrong in shapes, I sanded down the belly so it isn't looks so bad like original from kit. I don't used any aftermarket sets. I will posted my 3 Tamiya "Jugs" soon.

Congratulations!

Thank you Friends!

I present my first model completely made this year. Airfix Defiant straight OOB, I only exchanged the barrels for metal from the Polish company Master and the codes and serial number from the decal also from Polish manufacturer Model Maker. Both products are of very good quality, although the "roundel blue" from the decal seems too dark, I used the RAF signs from the Airfix kit. Unfortunately, I don't have a plastic sense, so my attempts to differentiate the black body of the plane are hardly visible, and certainly not very attractive. Markings shows a plane from 307th Night Fighter Squadron (Polish) based 1941 at Exeter Air Base.

Thank you, decals are custom print.