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Spitfire K5054 wing details.


Rick Brown

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Chaps

I'm kit bashing a 1/72nd prototype Spitfire based on the Hasegawa MK1. I've smoothed off all of the panel details from the top of the wings but I don't really have a very good drawing, or picture, showing the panel lines etc. Can someone help me out with this?

Rick.

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A few things, extra, you might like to know:- the carburettor intake didn't have a fairing like the "standard" Mk.I; it seemed to just go straight into the engine; there was no transport joint just in front of the tailplane, confirming just what a "one-off" K5054 was; there was no inspection hatch on the starboard side of the fuselage, its inclusion was recommended by an RAF test pilot; the u/c legs were not splayed, as in later Marks, but hung vertically (must have been even more fun for ground handling.)

Sorry if you were already aware of this.

Edgar

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If you go back three pages, in the Interwar section, you'll find a fairly animated discussion, on K5054, which might give you some more food for thought.

Edgar

Cheers Edgar, as helpful as ever!

Rick.

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