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Presumably this one: Ebay link . It is not much like Dark Earth!

The Eduard instructions show Dark Green, Dark Earth over Light Blue for the Burmese IX. It had not occurred to me that they would have been painted before transfer.

Troy, thank you for the detailed answer. I will definitely look at the Eduard material. On the spitfire database there are three XVIIIs exported to Burma in 1948: NH853 EA 39MU 8-7-45 76MU 18-2-46 Tarantia 8-3-46 India 30-3-46 ACSEA 11-4-46 BurmaAF 22-4-48 SM943 EA 33MU 23-7-45 76MU 31-1-46 Tarantia 8-3-46 India 30-3-46 ACSEA 11-4-46 60S 'B' wheels up landing Tengah Singapore 24-12-47 Burma 22-4-48 TP198 KEA 39MU 17-12-45 76MU 28-1-46 Pentarkete 12-2-46 India 17-3-46 ACSEA 28-3-46 BurmaAF 22-4-48

Thanks EwenS. I don’t need anything urgently. I was mostly intrigued by the comment about the different factories as it did not make sense to me. And sorry for my faulty checking; I did mean Cunliffe Owen, which I have corrected

I posed some questions in the cold war forum but I think this might be better as they relate to Spitfires, but post-war in Burma. I have tried searching and apologies if I have missed the answers as a newbie: I was researching a possible scheme for a Spitfire XVIII as I have two kits and the decals are pretty similar. I came across the Burma connection and then got thoroughly distracted by the other Burma Air Force aircraft. I ended up with a few issues so grouped them together. XVIII - there is no indication of a colour scheme anywhere. I would presume that they just inherit a day fighter scheme from the SEAC with insignia overpainted. No idea on serials but somewhere in the range UB150 to 299. I am happy to make one up! Seafire XV - no question as such as there is enough data to come up with an example. In the Sword kit there is the suggestion that all the Cunliffe Owen airframes had the A frame hook and the Westland ones the tail hook which I have not seen elsewhere. IX - great read on the subject of the movement of these aircraft. I am not sure of the colour for Burma. The ex-Czech planes would mostly still be DFS so I think should stay that way with the upper grey overpainted with a brown, but is is Dark Earth? The Carpena sheet shows Sky Blue undersides Any input welcome and I would also appreciate some guidance on how to do the white serials for both the Israeli and Burma planes.

I was researching a possible scheme for a Spitfire XVIII as I have two kits and the decals are pretty similar. I came across the Burma connection and then got thoroughly distracted by the other Burma Air Force aircraft. I ended up with a few issues so grouped them together. XVIII - there is no indication of a colour scheme anywhere. I would presume that they just inherit a day fighter scheme from the SEAC with insignia overpainted. No idea on serials but somewhere in the range UB150 to 299. I am happy to make one up! Seafire XV - no question as such as there is enough data to come up with an example. In the Sword kit there is the suggestion that all the Castle Bromwich airframes had the A frame hook and the Westland ones the tail hook which I have not seen elsewhere. IX - great read on the subject of the movement of these aircraft, probably at some stage going to follow the suggestion here to make several versions of the same aircraft. I am not sure of the colour for Burma. The ex-Czech planes would mostly still be DFS so I think should stay that way with the upper grey overpainted with a brown, but is is Dark Earth? Any input welcome and I would also appreciate some guidance on how to do the white serials for both the Israeli and Burma planes.

Like many of the new joiners I have seen I am returning to my boyhood hobby after many years. I have been browsing the site for some time and felt minded to join following two new achievements. My first vacform (a Type 224) and my first printed decals! When I started again about 8 years ago I quickly realised how much less effective my fat fingers and my dodgy eysight were so I have set my bar of quality very low. In 8 years I have made 45 kits, all Spitfire related, which my wife kindly lets me display in cabinets in our study. I was quite good to start with, only buying new kits when I had completed one. My unstarted stash is currently at 52! I have realised that I am going to be about 80 by the time I am finished filling the cabinets which have room for about 130. So from here on I will be doing groups starting with all 7 Seafires in my stash.