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One of the great things about Britmodeller is that the builds of others inspire you. So when I saw the build of Ced B. who built a Frog spitfire MK. XIV with an V1 flying bomb. In one of his posts he showed a picture that he used as his desktop. The orange triangle under the windshield points to a Dutch pilot. The plane in the painting is one included in an old Dutch Decal sheet I have. It's a 322 Dutch Squadron one. 3W F was flown by Flying Officer Rudy Burgwal. Born in the the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), he came to the UK when war in Europe broke out to fight for freedom. And just to put this in perspective: he wasn't ordered, he did so voluntarily. As a pilot in the 322 he claimed five doodle bugs in one 90 minute flight. In 3W F he scored 6 V1's in 17 flights. His total was 19. Total for the squadron was 108 destroyed. He was KIA being shot down by flak escorting a bombing raid over the south of France in august '44. Rudy in the cockpit. On this photo he's the guy pushing the propellor. So having the decals, it was about getting a kit. I first thought about a Frogspawn one, which has the V1, but although Ced made a great beauty out of it, I don't think I will do so well. So I decided to do an easy build, although Procopius said it looks like an XIV on donuts.... The Academy one it will be. The kit The decalsheet. I've already built one option a few years ago: another spit
