Some time ago I was idly wondering about this aeroplane as I had been making Neville Duke's fave Spitfire, the Mark VIII he left over the lake near Rome.
I would not go as far as to say I was a friend of Neville's, but we were on first name terms and I had some interesting chats with him, not least the 'Flying Visit' interview in Aeroplane Monthly that he initially refused to do, due to his modesty. He told me that after leaving JG241 he felt a little sad as 'I was rather fond of that one'.
I like to make models that have some relevance to people I have met, places I have been