Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IXc
MA574 'A'
GC 1/7 'Provence'. Armee de L'Air, Algeria.
Late 1943
I have been able to find out to much about this plane other than the WWII records show she was produced at Castle Bromwich and shipped to Casablanca and handed over to the Free French Air Force. I found one wartime Black and White photo of her and from this I have based most of the build. Her fate is unknown, but I did find one reference to her having been lost around Lyon later in the war. There also seems to be lots of references on the web to another Spitfire with the same registration, serving with a polish Squadron and it crashing in Kent. The date given was the same as the arrival date of this Spitfire in Casablanca. Was there two Spitfire Mk.IX with the same serial? Or more likely the reference to the 'Polish' one has had the serial recorded wrongly.
Anyway, enough of the history and on with the model.
Kit: Tamiya
Scale: 1:32
Paint: Tamiya
Weathering: Tamiya
Decals: Kit and OH Models
Extras: None, OOB
Build: Photobucket Library
Thanks for looking